With Election in a Dead Heat, Union-Busting Gov. Scott Walker Attacks the Unemployed
Gov. Scott Walker finds himself in a startling dead heat with Democratic candidate Mary Burke, business executive and former state...
Gov. Scott Walker finds himself in a startling dead heat with Democratic candidate Mary Burke, business executive and former state...
Government programs can effectively reduce poverty in the United States. Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)—a more comprehensive measure of...
Name a major super-PAC or dark-money outfit and there’s a good chance it has helped Republican Scott Brown, the former...
It’s always good when leaders tell the truth, especially if that wasn’t their intention. So we should be grateful to...
Americans are working longer hours and are more productive—yet wages are largely flat. Indeed, the median worker saw a real...
Reasonable people may differ on the precise definition of a living wage. But the consensus is that $7.25 an hour...
Income inequality is killing the economy. Retailers, bankers and Democrats agree on that. Really. It’s only Republicans who continue to...
Republicans’ most likely path to retaking the Senate in November requires GOPers to pick up seats in six key states:...
Guitar Center store workers are fighting for fair wages and improved conditions at stores around the country. The company has...
In a gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) was asked whether he supports the concept of a...
The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was in the city of Richmond, California on Thursday and said local...
The first national campaigns of the Republican Party, more than 150 years ago, linked economic progress with democratic participation, urging...
Walmart is a wildly successful company. Its “corporate fact sheet” online boasts that for “the fiscal year ended January 31,...
There may be no Washington lawmaker cozier with K Street than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). DC law firms...
Raising the federal minimum wage would save the government billions and have sweeping benefits for low-income families, according to a...
LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – U.S. drugmaker AbbVie has pulled the plug on its plan to buy Dublin-based Shire ,...
You know inequality is getting bad when it’s making a Swiss bank uncomfortable. The ratio of wealth to household income...
What does “SWIMNUT” know that the world’s supposed experts on corruption or the elites who gather each year for skiing...
The Walton family—who, as heirs to the Walmart fortune, have more wealth than 42 percent of American families combined—are impeding...
A recent Rolling Stone article documenting Koch Industries’ “lucrative blend of pollution, speculation, law-bending and self-righteousness” over the last few...
A rightwing legal group is suing the school district, school board, and teacher’s union in Madison, Wisconsin, for honoring a...
When most employees want a raise, they schedule a meeting with their supervisor or reach out to human resources. A...
The battle between Democratic congressman Bruce Braley and Republican state Sen. Joni Ernst to be Iowa’s next US senator couldn’t...
Laws that allow employers to pay tipped workers below the minimum wage lead to increased sexual harassment in the workplace,...
Imagine yourself part of the typical American family. Your household would have, the Federal Reserve reported last month, a net...
For a long time, the right has argued that we shouldn’t worry about inequality because the true concern is the...
You know those pesky statements of facts in deferred prosecution agreements? Where the corporation agrees that it did all those...
A ProPublica review of U.S. Department of Labor investigations shows that oil and gas workers – men and women often...
In case there was any remaining confusion with regard to the precise political intentions of the US Supreme Court’s activist...
Mitt Romney explains his 47 percent remark, Take 23. During a recent sit-down with the New York Times’ Mark Leibovich,...
The number of union members in New Orleans’s tourism industry is set to double. The hospitality and gaming union Unite...
WASHINGTON — The wealthiest Americans are playing a larger role in politics these days, thanks to campaign finance laws loosened...