Beyond Rubinomics
Jeff Madrick : U.S. Economy
If we stimulate the economy and maintain high rates of growth, higher wages will create the savings required for investment.
Jeff Madrick : U.S. Economy
If we stimulate the economy and maintain high rates of growth, higher wages will create the savings required for investment.
Steven Greenhouse
Young workers have it a lot tougher than their parents did.
Eric Schlosser : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Today's relentless arguments against a higher minimum wage suggest that Roosevelt's battle is not yet won.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Agriculture
The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
Steve Early & Suzanne Gordon : Democratic Party
Americans spend more time on the job than workers in any other country. Isn't it time presumably labor-friendly Democrats did something about it?
Thanks to some major-league grassroots organizing, workers who keep Baltimore's Camden Yards pristine are close to winning the right to a living wage.
Barbara Ehrenreich : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
Eyal Press : Ethical Economics
Sociologist Katherine Newman talks about the "near poor," that vast pool of workers who are neither officially destitute nor comfortably working-class.
Annette Bernhardt : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's recent decision to deny home-care workers the right to overtime pay is speeding a race to the bottom that will affect every working person.
The Roberts Court rules that six months into being screwed by your boss, pay discrimination is your own damn fault.
Barbara Ehrenreich : Gap Between Wealth & Poverty
New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and temporary attorneys.
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Sam Graham-Felsen : Electoral Politics
Let Justice Roll deserves credit for mobilizing values voters around minimum wage initiatives.
Christopher Hayes : Democratic Party
Economic populism was the most underreported story of the midterms and will be the cornerstone of any new Democratic majority.
As the lagging minimum wage is being turned into a moral issue instead
of an economic one, states are beginning to act where the federal
government has not.
A winning economic strategy for Democrats: Push for realistic policies to relieve workers' frustrations, rebuild their damaged confidence and improve lifetime security.
Joan Blades & Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner : Feminism & Women
Mothers in America are in serious need of a new deal to remedy a profound wage gap with other working women and men, and an outdated family support structure.
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Democratic Party
The Democratic Party needs to reset its moral compass and close the gap between workers' pay and CEO salary by raising the minimum wage.
Liza Featherstone : Feminism & Women
It's the poor who make Wal-Mart tick.
Maybe labor should give up on Washington in favor of friendlier terrain.
Beth Shulman : Living Wage Campaign
A vast impoverished population languishes in the midst of our economy.
Jim Hightower : Living Wage Campaign
In less than eight years, grassroots coalitions coast to coast have won living-wage campaigns in seventy-nine cites and towns.
