More lethal than the Whopper: How Burger King pleases the 1 percent, screws its workers
For the past year, I’ve worked at a Burger King in Tampa, Florida, making $9 an hour. Taxes are taken...
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Congress Spreads Joy to the 1 Percent
Towards the end of 2014, Americans averted yet another government shutdown. Congress passed, and Obama signed, a 1.1 trillion dollar...
Millions Of Workers Will Get A Raise On New Years Day
On January 1, 20 states will raise their minimum wages, while one — New York — will increase its wage...
New Report: We’re Subsidizing the Forbes 400
In its latest listing of America’s wealthiest individuals, Forbes magazine for the first time ranks the members of the top...
Judge Takes Away Minimum Wage Protections From Home Care Workers
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon struck down a rule change issued by the Department of Labor that would...
Federal labor board decisions are a bonanza for unions
The federal agency in charge of adjudicating labor disputes has released not one but several major decisions benefiting labor unions...
Minimum wage hike coming at more than 1,400 Walmart stores
Minimum wage increases will prompt Walmart Stores Inc to adjust base salaries at 1,434 stores, impacting about a third of...
Opinion: Shame is good. Shame is right. Shame works.
Does trumpeting scoundrels’ misdeeds set them straight? Edward Lampert, chairman and CEO of Sears Holdings, received positive reviews from only...
American Society’s Real Moochers: CEOs
Holiday bells are silent in the homes of America’s struggling working poor, even with gasoline prices at their lowest levels...
Labor board attorney backs up claims McDonald’s violated labor rights
Fast-food chain McDonald’s illegally retaliated against workers who participated in union organizing activities, the general counsel for the National Labor...
Sanders Has a Couple More Good Ideas: Break Up Big Banks, Expand Social Security
Promising to put forth and lobby on behalf of two bold progressive policy ideas in the months ahead, Sen. Bernie...
How Newt Gingrich’s Language Guru Helped Rebrand the Kochs’ Message
For the Koch brothers’ donor network, the 2012 elections were a keen disappointment. Not only did they lose what Charles...
Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union Busting Bill in Wisconsin
Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the...
The Next Frontier for Workers’ Rights
In late November, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights — the first law...
Coal industry’s go-to law firm withheld evidence of black lung, at expense of sick miners
BECKLEY, W.Va. — The stately, wood-paneled chamber in the federal building here unsettled Gary Fox and his wife, Mary. Fox...
The Koch Wall Street Crusade To Rob Pensions Is Underway
If anyone in America was unsure what unmitigated greed entails, or to what extent the Koch brothers and Wall Street...
Government by Wall Street: JPMorgan CEO whipped votes for spending bill
The House’s narrow passage of a massive spending bill that included a provision gutting a key financial regulatory reform is...
Walmart Threatened Workers For Trying To Organize, Judge Rules
(Reuters) – An administrative law judge found Walmart threatened employees trying to organize workers at two stores in California, in...
Bernie Sanders Unveils a 12 Point Economic Plan to Break the Koch Oligarchs
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a twelve point economic plan that if enacted would break...
Why Our Lives Feel Squeezed: 400 Reasons
We don’t know who exactly filed the tax returns with America’s 400 largest incomes in 2010. The IRS won’t reveal...
Congress Refuses to Add to the Deficit—Except When Giving Tax Breaks to Big Business
Congress routinely allows huge packages of nominally temporary tax incentives, loopholes, deductions, and credits to expire, only to revive them...
Are Republicans Nostalgic for the Gilded Age?
The Republican Party today could be rechristened the Party of the Second Gilded Age. Hostility to abortion and affirmative action,...
Koch-linked organization uses ‘dark money’ to fight political disclosure
As the Internal Revenue Service contemplates new rules to illuminate “dark money” in politics, a little-known nonprofit group is fighting...
Leaked: The Oil Lobby’s Plan to Kill Off California’s Climate Law
You remember Fillmore. He’s the resident hippie of Radiator Springs in the Pixar blockbuster Cars. Much to the chagrin of...
Fast food workers plan nationwide strike for December 4
Fast food workers in at least 150 cities nationwide will walk off the job on Dec. 4, demanding an industry-wide...
The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy
Some people say inequality doesn’t matter. They are wrong. All we have to do to see its effects is to...
Robert Reich: The 1 percent is gutting America’s middle class
The richest Americans hold more of the nation’s wealth than they have in almost a century. What do they spend...
Walmart workers plan Black Friday strike
For the third Black Friday running, America’s largest retailer is expected to face labor protests at locations across the country....
Kmart Workers Say They Risk Being Fired If They Don’t Come In On Thanksgiving
While Kmart has claimed that stores try to staff shifts on Thanksgiving Day, which will begin before 6 a.m., with...
Scott Walker: Denying Health Care To Low-Income People Helps Them ‘Live The American Dream’
Defending his fellow Republican governors’ decision to block Medicaid expansion in their states, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Friday...
How CEOs Are Rigging The Game To Get Paid More
The paranoid water-cooler lament that the boss has rigged the rules so that he will get paid even if he...
More Than 70 Percent Of Americans Like Their Obamacare Plans
With the second Obamacare enrollment period set to begin this weekend, there’s at least one piece of good news for...
Mass. Teachers Defeat Corporate Ed Reform Bill Through Rank-and-File Power
To the casual observer, Massachusetts may seem like an unlikely place to open up a new front in the assault...
Bernie Sanders to Colbert: “Frightening the Billionaire Class” Should be Goal of Grassroots Movement
Appearing on Monday night’s Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Sen. Bernie Sanders told the show’s host that he’s still contemplating...
Postal Workers Push Back Against Privatization and Post Office Closures
Union workers at the U.S. Postal Service staged one of their largest national demonstrations to date November 14, protesting fresh...
Walmart Workers Plan Black Friday Protests Over Wages
CHICAGO, Nov 14 (Reuters) – A group of Walmart employees pushing for higher wages said on Friday they were planning...
Republicans Can’t Stop Obamacare as Over 100,000 Uninsured Americans Sign Up in a Day
HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced that Obamacare is getting even stronger as 500,000 people accessed their accounts on the ACA...
Corporate America Steps Up for Maine’s Right-Wing Gov. Paul LePage
Although Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has been referred to as “America’s Craziest Governor,” he won his re-election last week –...
‘Poster Boy for Malevolent Big Business’ Indicted Over Fatal Coal Mine Disaster
Don Blankenship, the former CEO of coal giant Massey Energy, faces up to 31 years in prison after a federal...
Walmart’s Inhumane Policies for Pregnant Workers
In February, Bene’t Holmes asked her manager at a Chicago Walmart to put her on lighter duty. She was four...
Obama should devote final years to changing economic conversation
Presidents are rarely able to accomplish much in the last two years of a second term. Tuesday’s election results guaranteed...
The Peasants Still Have Their Pitchforks
What can we expect Congress to do about America’s staggeringly top-heavy concentration of income and wealth over the next two...
Sanders Calls for Voting Holiday to ‘Fix’ Failed Democracy
Responding to the “disgraceful” voter turnout for last week’s midterm election—just 36.6 percent—Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) argued on Monday that...
San Francisco Raises Its Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour
The Democrats were brutalized at the polls Tuesday, but progressives can at least take some consolation in some notable strides...
Richmond: The little town that beat big oil
“The Chevrons of the world, the Koch Brothers and the others … their religion is greed … we cannot allow...
A Bright Spot in Tuesday’s Bloodbath: Massachusetts Voters Passed a Strong Paid Sick Leave Bill
On Tuesday night, Massachusetts became the first state to give workers 40 hours of sick leave a year. California and...
