Ben Casselman usefully tries to figure out just how many people are trying to survive and support themselves on less than President Obama's proposed $10.10 minimum wage. While solid numbers are hard to nail down, it's certainly not a bunch of teenagers working part time...
Author: Erik Loomis
I'm generally skeptical of tax credits to businesses and I'd like to see them all eliminated were the government and everyday citizens to be empowered to fill in the gaps.
“Helping the Poor–Gratuitous Distribution of Coal by the City–Cherry Street,” New York City, 1877 Konczal's essay on the voluntarism fantasy of conservatives who argue that private charity used to operate.
Timothy Noah has a good run-down of wage theft in fast food and the role franchising plays in it: What’s unusual here aren’t the claims of labor law violations, which are common enough, but rather, who’s being blamed. The wall that fast food workers hope...
Paul Ryan, unfortunately the latest Irish-American politician to forget the roots of his people and become a right-winger, has had a very racist week. Blaming black people for inner-city conditions.
On March 18, 1970, postal workers around the nation went on strike. This illegal but pioneering strike of public sector workers not only forced the Nixon Administration to cave but.
As I have said for many years now, agriculture is going to lose out in the water wars of the West. With continued urban growth and the political weight behind water-guzzling energy production, there just isn't the water and despite agribusiness' power, the don't have...
Well, the revamped 538 site is up and if it's going to feature articles about attempting to count the number of rats in New York, I'm on board.
The first thing I noticed when reading this Gallup poll of what concerns Americans is how low environmental issues and climate change are on the list. The second thing I.
I don't need to read any of these children's books to know Rush Limbaugh deserves the Children's Choice Book Award for his no doubt outstanding magnum opus, "Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans." I think you know you need to...
Mike Elk's long piece on southern white masculinity and the defeat of the UAW in Chattanooga is well worth your time. There's a long history in the South of working-class.
If there's one thing I learned when the gun nuts attacked me in late 2012, it's that conservatives take the specifics of language very seriously and abhor violence. That's why.