Wage Theft: The New American Crime?
Each week, millions of dollars are stolen from American families. The perpetrators act with impunity. There are no arrests, few...
Each week, millions of dollars are stolen from American families. The perpetrators act with impunity. There are no arrests, few...
Wal-Mart loves keeping track of data. For instance, the retail giant’s researchers know that before and after major storms, customers...
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful...
Jimmy John’s, the “freaky fast” sandwich staple of America’s college towns, is being sued by two former employees for what...
Candis Riggins has a new baby. But, since she got fired from Walmart, she no longer has her job or...
WASHINGTON — More than a year after its initial election victory at a Guitar Center store, the union representing the...
(CNN) — Raising the minimum wage continues to be a top Democratic economic priority, insisting that higher pay is critical...
In a ruling being hailed by union groups and wage rights advocates, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found Tuesday...
by onepercenttakers · Published July 27, 2014 · Last modified August 6, 2014
VILLA PARK, Ill. (AP) — Comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement, fast food workers from across the country...
States with higher minimum wages saw faster job growth in the first six months of 2014 than states that have...
The link is simple and clear: Women earn less than men in the workplace – almost $450 billion less in...
People who work for tips are far more likely to live in poverty, according to a new report from the...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published July 18, 2014 · Last modified August 6, 2014
Last year, according to a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the CEOs of America’s top 25 restaurant...
Fighting Back / Politics / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published July 16, 2014 · Last modified August 6, 2014
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) proposed an amendment to a House spending bill Tuesday that would raise the minimum wage for...
Betterment / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published June 23, 2014 · Last modified August 9, 2014
The minimum wage is currently more than 25% below its real value in the late 1960s. The Congressional Budget Office...
Men between 25 and 44 have seen precipitous increases in the share working at such low wages, with the share...
A new report on California’s grocery industry confirms what supermarket employees and labor union officials have known for years: Namely,...
Starting last year, The Huffington Post asked people surviving on wages near the federal minimum, as well as those struggling...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published June 3, 2014 · Last modified August 28, 2014
Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, but here’s one more thing to remember: American chief executives make too darn...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 26, 2014 · Last modified August 28, 2014
As fast food workers strike in 150 U.S. cities Thursday and solidarity protests spring up in 30 other countries, it’s...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 24, 2014 · Last modified September 2, 2014
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Police arrested a rabbi and others who took part in a protest on the campus of...
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age...
In a nation that has long operated on the principle that an “American Dream” is available to anyone willing to...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 15, 2014 · Last modified September 2, 2014
On Thursday, the fast-food strikes that have been spreading around the country are going global. Workers at restaurants like Burger...
Corporations / Lobbyists / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 15, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 15, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
Hundreds of children too young to buy cigarettes are working 60 hours a week on tobacco farms across the South,...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 14, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
When you think of the term “public pension fund,” you probably imagine hyper-cautious investment strategies kept in check by no-nonsense...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 6, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play —...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 5, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
The chase after ever cheaper sites for manufacturing is causing rising inequality, low-wage misery, and unsafe workplaces in many parts...
Inequality / Richest One Percent / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 5, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
Betterment / Fighting Back / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 3, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
The dramatic progress of the movement to make the minimum wage a living wage was highlighted on May Day when...
CEOs / Inequality / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 2, 2014 · Last modified September 4, 2014
The link between income inequality and economic instability has drawn renewed attention from economists, policy makers, global financial institutions, media,...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 17, 2014 · Last modified September 5, 2014
In an op-ed published by the Christian Post, Phyllis Schlafly — the founder of the Eagle Forum — maintained that...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 16, 2014 · Last modified September 5, 2014
One of the most hotly contested issues in the debate over raising the federal minimum wage — whether it will...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified September 6, 2014
Although they say they’re concerned about inequality, economic policymakers continue to pummel low-income families and the jobless, and that’s bad...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified September 6, 2014
Almost half a million college graduates are working minimum-wage jobs, according to new government statistics.
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified September 6, 2014
A new poll finds that 89 percent of fast food workers nationwide say they experience wage theft.
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans unanimously voted against advancing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Forty-three voted against invoking cloture, joined by Independent...
After rejecting two previous proposals for being too generous to banks, on Friday a federal judge approved Detroit’s plan to...
Inequality / Richest One Percent / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
Corporations / Fighting Back / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published April 14, 2014 · Last modified September 6, 2014
Drivers and pizza cooks will share a $448,000 payout from 23 Domino’s Pizza franchise owners around New York state under...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 14, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
Shake Shack, a burger chain with locations in Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. as well as international...
Fighting Back / Politics / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
Rashida Tlaib is a state representative in Michigan. But on Wednesday when she checked out at her grocery store, she...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified September 7, 2014
Workers in California, Michigan and New York this week filed six new lawsuits against McDonald’s claiming they were systematically shorted...
Right-wing groups may have successfully defeated a unionization bid at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn. manufacturing plant, but it wasn’t a clean...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.