Massachusetts Passes The Highest State Minimum Wage In The Country
The Massachusetts House passed a bill that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $11 an hour by 2017. The...
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Increasing Wages is an Effective Poverty Reduction Tool, Study Shows
The minimum wage is currently more than 25% below its real value in the late 1960s. The Congressional Budget Office...
Bill Moyers: How Tax Reform Can Save the Middle Class
In the second part of his interview with Bill Moyer, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz says that such...
Obama To Endorse Elizabeth Warren’s Student Loan Proposal
President Barack Obama on Monday will throw his support behind a new proposal to dramatically revamp the federal student loan...
Labor Supporters Hail Seattle’s Landmark $15/hour wage
After the Seattle city council unanimously passed an ordinance raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next...
Can a New Populist Movement Fight Off American Oligarchy?
At the ‘New Populism Conference’ hosted by the Campaign for America’s Future on Thursday, a number of progressive thinkers and...
Raising the Minimum Wage to $10.10 Would Benefit 4.7 Million Moms
In honor of Mother’s Day, we thought it would be appropriate to point out a gift millions of moms would...
Democrats Urge Curb on Offshore Tax Moves Amid Pfizer Bid
Senator Carl Levin said he is writing legislation to block U.S. companies from shifting their legal addresses overseas to lower...
Doubling the Minimum Wage Is on the Agenda in Seattle—and Nationally
The dramatic progress of the movement to make the minimum wage a living wage was highlighted on May Day when...
This State Isn’t Waiting For Congress To Pass A $10.10 Minimum Wage
Maryland’s minimum wage will rise to $10.10 over the next four years under a bill passed Monday night. Gov. Martin...
Pressure Mounts For Higher Federal Minimum Wage
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
Is a higher minimum wage a job killer? Not in these states
One of the most hotly contested issues in the debate over raising the federal minimum wage — whether it will...
The Burger Chain That Pays $10 An Hour With Benefits
Shake Shack, a burger chain with locations in Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. as well as international...
