Koch-affiliated money is pouring into Alaska like never before. Labor unions are going all out to fight back
Republicans’ most likely path to retaking the Senate in November requires GOPers to pick up seats in six key states:...
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“The Show Must Go On”: Guitar Center Workers Push for First Contracts
Guitar Center store workers are fighting for fair wages and improved conditions at stores around the country. The company has...
Governor: I Don’t Know What The Minimum Wage Should Be Because ‘The Private Sector Decides Wages’
In a gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) was asked whether he supports the concept of a...
Bernie Sanders: Purchase of Election by Chevron Shows We Have ‘Oligarchy, Not Democracy’
The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was in the city of Richmond, California on Thursday and said local...
Eighty percent of Americans want to hike wages, but powerful Republicans keep saying “no”
The first national campaigns of the Republican Party, more than 150 years ago, linked economic progress with democratic participation, urging...
The Walmart Way of Business: When Profits Go Up, Cut Health Care for 30,000 Employees
Walmart is a wildly successful company. Its “corporate fact sheet” online boasts that for “the fiscal year ended January 31,...
“More Money Than I Could Count”: Mitch McConnell’s Very Special Relationship With Lobbyists
There may be no Washington lawmaker cozier with K Street than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). DC law firms...
$10.10 Minimum Wage Would Save The U.S. Government $7.6 Billion A Year
Raising the federal minimum wage would save the government billions and have sweeping benefits for low-income families, according to a...
Obama Scores Big Win Against Tax-Dodging Deals
LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – U.S. drugmaker AbbVie has pulled the plug on its plan to buy Dublin-based Shire ,...
Key Inequality Measure The Highest Since The Great Depression
You know inequality is getting bad when it’s making a Swiss bank uncomfortable. The ratio of wealth to household income...
How corruption became America’s national pastime
What does “SWIMNUT” know that the world’s supposed experts on corruption or the elites who gather each year for skiing...
Report Documents Walmart Heirs’ Efforts to Destroy Rooftop Solar Revolution
The Walton family—who, as heirs to the Walmart fortune, have more wealth than 42 percent of American families combined—are impeding...
Rolling Stone Report Rocks Koch Industries
A recent Rolling Stone article documenting Koch Industries’ “lucrative blend of pollution, speculation, law-bending and self-righteousness” over the last few...
Rightwing Groups Try to Stamp Out Local Union Contracts
A rightwing legal group is suing the school district, school board, and teacher’s union in Madison, Wisconsin, for honoring a...
Wells Fargo Employee Calls Out CEO’s Pay, Requests Company-Wide Raise In Brave Email
When most employees want a raise, they schedule a meeting with their supervisor or reach out to human resources. A...
Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst: An ALEC Shill?
The battle between Democratic congressman Bruce Braley and Republican state Sen. Joni Ernst to be Iowa’s next US senator couldn’t...
Report: Tipped subminimum wage leads to more sexual harassment
Laws that allow employers to pay tipped workers below the minimum wage lead to increased sexual harassment in the workplace,...
America’s Ridiculously Rich: the 2014 Edition
Imagine yourself part of the typical American family. Your household would have, the Federal Reserve reported last month, a net...
Income inequality’s sick joke: A rising tide only lifts luxury yachts
For a long time, the right has argued that we shouldn’t worry about inequality because the true concern is the...
Corporation Admits to Serious Wrongdoing But Individuals Aren’t Prosecuted. Why Not?
You know those pesky statements of facts in deferred prosecution agreements? Where the corporation agrees that it did all those...
For Oil and Gas Companies, Rigging Seems to Involve Wages, Too
A ProPublica review of U.S. Department of Labor investigations shows that oil and gas workers – men and women often...
The Supreme Court That Made It Easier to Buy Elections Just Made It Harder for People to Vote in Them
In case there was any remaining confusion with regard to the precise political intentions of the US Supreme Court’s activist...
Mitt Romney’s Latest Excuse for His 47 Percent Remarks Is a Doozy
Mitt Romney explains his 47 percent remark, Take 23. During a recent sit-down with the New York Times’ Mark Leibovich,...
New Orleans Union Membership Set to Double After Hotel and Casino Workers Win
The number of union members in New Orleans’s tourism industry is set to double. The hospitality and gaming union Unite...
Top Billionaire Campaign Donors Favor Republicans In 2014
WASHINGTON — The wealthiest Americans are playing a larger role in politics these days, thanks to campaign finance laws loosened...
Bill aims to stop coal companies from denying benefits to miners with black lung
Two coal-state senators plan to introduce sweeping legislation to reform the federal program meant to provide benefits to miners suffering...
Low-Wage Workers Confront Scott Walker, Accuse Wisconsin Of Breaking The Law
On Wednesday morning, Wisconsin Jobs Now, Wisconsin Working Families, and a group of low-wage workers in the state submitted 100...
A Conservative Disdain for the Unemployed
House Speaker John Boehner says that unemployed Americans are pretty clearly malingerers, bums on welfare who have decided that they...
CEOs Get Paid Too Much, According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World
Rumblings of discontent about executive wages, the 1 Percent, and wealth gaps know no borders. And neither does fierce debate...
The Biggest Robbers In America Are Employers
The amount of money employers had to pay because they were found guilty of wage theft is nearly three times...
Big Gains for the 1 Percent of the 1 Percent
We’ll be posting a new chart on the current state of income inequality every day for the next couple of...
Fast Food Franchise Owners Seek to Stop Campaign for Labor Rights
The fast food industry is hoping that a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill can blunt the momentum that fast...
5 Signs the Dark-Money Apocalypse Is Upon Us
It’s the home stretch of the 2014 election season. No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014...
New Republican Bill Would Paralyze National Labor Relations Board
This week, Republican Senators introduced a bill they call the “The National Labor Relations Board Reform Act.” Its chances of...
Even in Palin Country, Raising the Minimum Wage Is Wildly Popular
For Democrats, 2014 was supposed to be the year of the minimum wage. President Obama used his State of the...
How the Koch Brothers and Other Right Wing Tycoons Are Ruining America
George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century. Amid a violent and...
Robin Hood Tax rally to kick off People’s Climate March
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) will join community, health, labor, student and environmental groups to kick start the People’s Climate March...
Casino Mogal Sheldon Adelson Spends $10 Million in an Attempt to Buy the 2014 Elections for Republicans
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has donated $10 million to a Karl Rove-backed outfit boosting Republican Senate candidates and...
American Airlines, US Airways Workers Vote Overwhelmingly To Join Union
Thousands of service agents at American Airlines unionized with their new colleagues at U.S. Airways on Tuesday, making the most...
Why Are Employers Checking Job Applicants’ Credit Histories?
It’s the classic Catch-22 of the doomed job search: How do you get a job? You need experience. And how...
Shareholders Push for Full Disclosure of Publically Traded Companies’ Political Spending
If you own a share of a company, how much information about the company are you entitled to? That is...
An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Year
Millions of Americans struggle to get by on low wages, often without any benefits such as paid sick leave, a...
Arizona Is Becoming The Cayman Islands For Dark Money
Dark money groups have already poured more than $5 million into Arizona’s elections this cycle. These organizations, carefully constructed to...
Elizabeth Warren on Fighting Back Against Wall St. Giants
In Oklahoma, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her brothers grew up in “an America that invested in kids like us...
Fight for 15 Gets into the Ring with Taco Bell
MADISON — The chant “come on out, we’ve got your back!” echoed through the air at Taco Bell as peaceful...
Paid Sick Days for Six Million Californians to Become Law
When Governor Jerry Brown signs Assembly Bill 1522, California will join a growing number of states where temporary or part-time...
