Low wage workers take part in a protest organized by the Coalition for a Real Minimum Wage outside the offices of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, May 30, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Segar This is not the first time the media has portrayed the real life of...
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Last week was the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Fire. The historian Christopher Gorham places the current fight for higher minimum wages in the context of that tragedy. The national.
The thing about the rejection of raising the minimum wage by 50 Republicans and 8 Democrats is that it is a punch in the face of working class people. It's.
With Democrats moving toward finally creating a $15 minimum wage (though it won't happen in the relief bill), it's time to think about what this all means. I had the opportunity to talk to Dominic Rushe of The Guardian about it. The main point I...
I've finally been convinced that a higher minimum wage is bad. After all, it would hurt that most respectable and morally upright sector of American capitalism: the payday lender industry!.
Congress has set a record for its terribleness! The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009. That’s coming up on a decade, but it’s already.
Low wage workers take part in a protest organized by the Coalition for a Real Minimum Wage outside the offices of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, May 30, 2013. The workers from restaurants and other trades who say there are rampant...
In the recent history of economic justice, one of the most prominent success stories is the $15 minimum wage in Sea-Tac, Washington. The small town where the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Low wage workers take part in a protest organized by the Coalition for a Real Minimum Wage outside the offices of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo,.
On June 4, 1912, Massachusetts established the nation’s first minimum wage. This was a result of long-time worker outrage over the conditions of their lives and the strikes that resulted. It also led to a pioneering law that would become the law of the land...
Above: Elsie Parrish On March 29, 1937, the Supreme Court decided the case of West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish. This 5-4 decision upheld Washington's minimum wage law for women.
Michael Hiltzik on the wonderful times we live in: The first government-mandated disclosure of the ratio of CEO vs. average worker pay has surfaced, and as has been widely expected,.