“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...
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 ,...
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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...
Two coal-state senators plan to introduce sweeping legislation to reform the federal program meant to provide benefits to miners suffering...
On Wednesday morning, Wisconsin Jobs Now, Wisconsin Working Families, and a group of low-wage workers in the state submitted 100...
House Speaker John Boehner says that unemployed Americans are pretty clearly malingerers, bums on welfare who have decided that they...
Rumblings of discontent about executive wages, the 1 Percent, and wealth gaps know no borders. And neither does fierce debate...
The amount of money employers had to pay because they were found guilty of wage theft is nearly three times...
We’ll be posting a new chart on the current state of income inequality every day for the next couple of...
The fast food industry is hoping that a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill can blunt the momentum that fast...
It’s the home stretch of the 2014 election season. No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014...
This week, Republican Senators introduced a bill they call the “The National Labor Relations Board Reform Act.” Its chances of...
For Democrats, 2014 was supposed to be the year of the minimum wage. President Obama used his State of the...
George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century. Amid a violent and...
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) will join community, health, labor, student and environmental groups to kick start the People’s Climate March...
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has donated $10 million to a Karl Rove-backed outfit boosting Republican Senate candidates and...
Thousands of service agents at American Airlines unionized with their new colleagues at U.S. Airways on Tuesday, making the most...
It’s the classic Catch-22 of the doomed job search: How do you get a job? You need experience. And how...
If you own a share of a company, how much information about the company are you entitled to? That is...
Millions of Americans struggle to get by on low wages, often without any benefits such as paid sick leave, a...
Dark money groups have already poured more than $5 million into Arizona’s elections this cycle. These organizations, carefully constructed to...
In Oklahoma, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her brothers grew up in “an America that invested in kids like us...
MADISON — The chant “come on out, we’ve got your back!” echoed through the air at Taco Bell as peaceful...
When Governor Jerry Brown signs Assembly Bill 1522, California will join a growing number of states where temporary or part-time...
“Lifestyles of the Rich Environmentalists,” produced by a group called the Institute for Energy Research, is a slick web video...
With all the filthy lucre sloshing around on Wall Street, New York City may not strike you as a bastion...
At a Koch Brothers-hosted secret strategy conference of right-wing millionaire and billionaire political activists in June, Senate Minority Leader Mitch...
The city council in Passaic, New Jersey unanimously passed an ordinance requiring paid sick leave on Tuesday night with a...
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who resigned last month after losing renomination to an underfunded college professor, spent...
In 1894, Chicago was the Midwest’s gateway to the rest of the United States. Twenty-four different railroad lines centered or...