Elizabeth Warren Says Economy Is ‘Rigged’ Against Workers
WASHINGTON — With a celebrity assist from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the AFL-CIO union federation hosted what it billed as...
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Matt Taibbi and “The $9 Billion Witness” Who Exposed How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy
In holiday special, we feature a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive interview with Alayne Fleischmann, the whistleblower who helped the Justice...
Robert Reich: When we give up on democracy, the 1 percent ‘run everything and they get everything’
Former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich produced a short “2014 Year in Review” video in which he reminded...
Opinion: Shame is good. Shame is right. Shame works.
Does trumpeting scoundrels’ misdeeds set them straight? Edward Lampert, chairman and CEO of Sears Holdings, received positive reviews from only...
Sanders Has a Couple More Good Ideas: Break Up Big Banks, Expand Social Security
Promising to put forth and lobby on behalf of two bold progressive policy ideas in the months ahead, Sen. Bernie...
Bernie Sanders Unveils a 12 Point Economic Plan to Break the Koch Oligarchs
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a twelve point economic plan that if enacted would break...
Fast food workers plan nationwide strike for December 4
Fast food workers in at least 150 cities nationwide will walk off the job on Dec. 4, demanding an industry-wide...
Postal Workers Push Back Against Privatization and Post Office Closures
Union workers at the U.S. Postal Service staged one of their largest national demonstrations to date November 14, protesting fresh...
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...
Walmart’s Inhumane Policies for Pregnant Workers
In February, Bene’t Holmes asked her manager at a Chicago Walmart to put her on lighter duty. She was four...
Sanders Calls for Voting Holiday to ‘Fix’ Failed Democracy
Responding to the “disgraceful” voter turnout for last week’s midterm election—just 36.6 percent—Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) argued on Monday that...
Richmond: The little town that beat big oil
“The Chevrons of the world, the Koch Brothers and the others … their religion is greed … we cannot allow...
“The Show Must Go On”: Guitar Center Workers Push for First Contracts
Guitar Center store workers are fighting for fair wages and improved conditions at stores around the country. The company has...
Wells Fargo Employee Calls Out CEO’s Pay, Requests Company-Wide Raise In Brave Email
When most employees want a raise, they schedule a meeting with their supervisor or reach out to human resources. A...
Bill aims to stop coal companies from denying benefits to miners with black lung
Two coal-state senators plan to introduce sweeping legislation to reform the federal program meant to provide benefits to miners suffering...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Fast Food Workers Vow Civil Disobedience
VILLA PARK, Ill. (AP) — Comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement, fast food workers from across the country...
Senator Bernie Sanders Bill Targets ‘Corporate Deserters’
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bernie Sanders is targeting “corporate deserters” with legislation to ban businesses from receiving lucrative government contracts when...
Senate Democrats Dare GOPers to Block Their Dark-Money Disclosure Bill
The 2014 elections are awash in dark money—and it’s only getting worse. The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity alone plans to...
Alan Grayson To Force Republicans On The Record On Minimum Wage
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) proposed an amendment to a House spending bill Tuesday that would raise the minimum wage for...
A Cure for Bloated CEO Pay
Business owners usually don’t like it when their employees steal from them. For this reason is it is hard to...
National Teachers’ Union Expected To Join Staples Boycott
In an expected show of solidarity with postal employee unions, the 1.6 million-member American Federation of Teachers will vote Saturday...
The Government Crackdown On Offshore Tax Dodging Just Got Real
Over 77,000 separate foreign banks and financial firms will start sharing information on their American accountholders with the Internal Revenue...
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Let’s stop subsidizing economic inequality
Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, recently asked in a speech at...
MAP: How Fast Food Worker Strikes Ignited Across The Country
As fast food workers strike in 150 U.S. cities Thursday and solidarity protests spring up in 30 other countries, it’s...
LIVE: How to Reclaim Our Democracy From the Corporations
John Nichols speaks live from the Kansas City Public Library about the toxic influence of money and the media election...
McDonald’s Protesters Arrested Outside Corporate Headquarters
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Police arrested a rabbi and others who took part in a protest on the campus of...
U.S. Democrats to target companies moving overseas to dodge taxes
Corporate tax-dodging deals known as inversions, in which a U.S. multinational shifts its tax domicile to a lower-tax country, would...
Protesters Demand Answers After Wealthy Man Avoids Jail for 7th DUI
At the very end of last year, Shaun Goodman left a bar in Olympia, Washington in his Ferrari and led...
Chicago Nurses Vs. Koch Petcoke Piles
Holy axis of evil, Batman! A dramatic fossil fuel threefer is brewing in Chicago, as mountains of the carbon-saturated fuel...
Robert Reich: How to Shrink Inequality
The data on widening inequality are remarkably and disturbingly clear. The Congressional Budget Office has found that between 1979 and...
Fast-Food Strikes Go Global
On Thursday, the fast-food strikes that have been spreading around the country are going global. Workers at restaurants like Burger...
Big Coal is trying to jail climate activists just for speaking out — sign the petition!
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns are working. They’re working so well that Big Coal is scared and striking back, frantically trying...
Salary of McDonald’s CEO should be slashed, activist shareholders say
The salary of McDonald’s CEO Donald Thompson should be slashed by the company’s Board of Directors due to the chain’s...
Koch Brothers Face Lawsuit Over Chicago’s Toxic Black Dust
Environmentalists are planning to take billionaires Charles and David Koch to court, alleging the brothers’ companies are responsible for polluting...
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...
LA Sues Bank Of America Over Wave Of Foreclosures
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles city attorney is suing Bank of America for mortgage discrimination it claims led...
Protesters Target Apple for Offshore Tax Shelters
Protesters dressed up as Apple Store employees in telltale blue t-shirts marched in front of the Union Square store Tuesday...
Is Our Tax System Fair?
Robert Reich has a special Tax Day message, explaining why the wealthiest 1% pay a much lower tax rate than...
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...
