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...
CHICAGO, Nov 14 (Reuters) – A group of Walmart employees pushing for higher wages said on Friday they were planning...
HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced that Obamacare is getting even stronger as 500,000 people accessed their accounts on the ACA...
Although Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has been referred to as “America’s Craziest Governor,” he won his re-election last week –...
Don Blankenship, the former CEO of coal giant Massey Energy, faces up to 31 years in prison after a federal...
In February, Bene’t Holmes asked her manager at a Chicago Walmart to put her on lighter duty. She was four...
Presidents are rarely able to accomplish much in the last two years of a second term. Tuesday’s election results guaranteed...
What can we expect Congress to do about America’s staggeringly top-heavy concentration of income and wealth over the next two...
Responding to the “disgraceful” voter turnout for last week’s midterm election—just 36.6 percent—Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) argued on Monday that...
The Democrats were brutalized at the polls Tuesday, but progressives can at least take some consolation in some notable strides...
“The Chevrons of the world, the Koch Brothers and the others … their religion is greed … we cannot allow...
On Tuesday night, Massachusetts became the first state to give workers 40 hours of sick leave a year. California and...
More than 300 global corporations and financial institutions—including well-known names like Pepsi Co., FedEx, JP Morgan Chase, and Amazon—have created...
Measures aimed at raising the minimum wage passed overwhelmingly in the five states where they appeared on Tuesday’s ballot. The...
Silly season is almost over. But in these waning days before the November 4 election, Republicans are getting in their...
From the transcript at Moyers & Co., where Bernie Sanders makes his usual incisive points: BILL MOYERS: Well, that’s interesting....
Imagine a world where fast food workers can pay their rent and utility bills, plus buy their children food and...
SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA—In downtown Sioux Falls, The Banquet provides community members free warm meals six days a week. These...
BURLINGTON, Vt. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a new report that paychecks are shrinking and half of all...
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...