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...
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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...
Charles Koch Personally Founded a Group Protecting Oil Industry Handouts
“Lifestyles of the Rich Environmentalists,” produced by a group called the Institute for Energy Research, is a slick web video...
How Did New York Become the Most Unionized State in the Country?
With all the filthy lucre sloshing around on Wall Street, New York City may not strike you as a bastion...
McConnell Promises Billionaire Donors He Won’t Waste Time On ‘Gosh Darn’ Minimum Wage Increases
At a Koch Brothers-hosted secret strategy conference of right-wing millionaire and billionaire political activists in June, Senate Minority Leader Mitch...
Country’s Newest Law Guaranteeing Workers Paid Sick Days Passes Unanimously
The city council in Passaic, New Jersey unanimously passed an ordinance requiring paid sick leave on Tuesday night with a...
After 13 Years Of Fighting For Wall Street, Eric Cantor Will Make Millions At An Investment Bank
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who resigned last month after losing renomination to an underfunded college professor, spent...
The True Story Of How One Man Shut Down American Commerce To Avoid Paying His Workers A Fair Wage
In 1894, Chicago was the Midwest’s gateway to the rest of the United States. Twenty-four different railroad lines centered or...
Koch Brothers’ Top Strategist: Minimum Wage Will Turn USA Into Nazi Germany
In a newly released audio recording, obtained by The Undercurrent, a man identified as a top Koch strategist warned that...
I’m making $21 an hour at McDonald’s. Why aren’t you?
I work for McDonald’s and I make $21 an hour. No, that isn’t a typo. It’s really my salary. You...
U.S. fast-food workers arrested in protests for wage hike
(Reuters) – U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and...
How U.S. Corporations Skip Out on Their Tax Bill
Reading companies’ annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission is a reliable cure for insomnia. Every so often, though,...
California Legislature Passes Bill to Protect Temp Workers
The California legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies legally responsible if the temp agencies and subcontractors they...
New Scorecard Grades CEO Pay Reform
The Institute for Policy Studies’ 2014 Executive Pay Reform Scorecard – part of the just-released latest edition of the IPS...
Some ALEC Funders Flee, but Koch, Big Tobacco, and PhRMA Remain Loyalists
At least 72 corporate funders have cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the wake of the...
Microsoft’s Staggering Tax Dodge Alone Would Fund the Entire State of Washington for Two Years
Reading companies’ annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission is a reliable cure for insomnia. Every so often, though,...
A Kentucky Objection to McConnell’s Pandering to Millionaires and Billionaires
When the political mercenaries of American oligarchy jet off to consort with their electoral paymasters, they never imagine that the...
Inequality: A Broad Middle Class Requires Empowering Workers
On Labor Day, families gather, politicians pay tribute to values of hard work, and some workers even get an extra...
Victory Declared as Supermarket Standoff Ends With Worker-Friendly CEO’s Return
Bringing to a close a summer-long supermarket standoff, a deal was reached late Wednesday to sell the majority stake of...
A Koch Brother Tries Damage Control as the American People Reject Their Agenda
The AP interviewed one of the lesser known Koch brothers, William, in what seems to be an attempt to soften...
Inequality and the USA: A Nation in Denial?
Every August, for most of the last four decades, top central bankers from around the world have been making their...
Paul Ryan’s convinced: time to cut taxes on the wealthy
There are some congressional Republicans who believe the party’s commitment to supply-side, trickle-down tax policy is in need of an...
What Jesus knew about income inequality: Opinion
(CNN) — Does money make you happy? Does being rich contribute to your spiritual life and its possibilities? Is the...
‘Unbalanced Recovery’: Wages Falling, Low-Paid Jobs Rising Across US
While wages have declined across all sectors in the years following the financial crash of 2008, low-paid workers have been...
Corporate Profits Trumped Public Safety in Oil Train Derailment
The Lac Mégantic oil train derailment that killed 47 people and nearly destroyed a small town was caused by a...
Subway workers in New Jersey get organized
Subway may claim to be the “leader in fast, healthy food,” but that alleged commitment to wellness often doesn’t extend...
Fast Food Worker To US Labor Secretary: ‘Either I Feed Myself Or I Feed My Son’
Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S....
How ALEC Fronts for Fossil Fuels
Even as the Environmental Protection Agency finally attempts to limit carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants, it is meeting resistance...
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...
Interior Dept Blows Off Koch Stranglehold On Offshore Wind Power
The good news for US Atlantic coast offshore wind power just keeps rolling along. Earlier this year, renewable energy fans...
Is Wal-Mart Treating Workers Like Pop-Tarts?
Wal-Mart loves keeping track of data. For instance, the retail giant’s researchers know that before and after major storms, customers...
Minimum wage laws aren’t just for workers with lowest wages
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful...
Pennsylvania Sacrificing Public Health, Environment to Advance Fossil Fuel Industry: Report
On the heels of news that natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale hit an all-time high in July, as...
