With jobless Americans growing increasingly desperate and furious at congressional Republicans for skipping town for summer recess without approving Covid-19 relief, House Speaker Nancy...
Days after the payroll processor for the federal government—one of the nation’s largest employers—announced it would implement President Donald Trump’s plan...
Kenny Overstreet scrounges every penny—and even sells the eggs his chickens lay—to make ends meet after Packaging Corporation of America...
During the coronavirus crisis, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has stressed that he has no interest in “bailing out” blue...
When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income...
A report released Wednesday by a new nonprofit—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic disaster, and calls...
Consumer and workers’ rights advocates are warning that new details of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to shield businesses...
McDonald’s workers in 20 cities nationwide went on strike Wednesday, protesting against the company’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and...
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in southern Louisiana was the last straw for a group of sanitation workers who pick...
The GOP has nothing with which to replace Obamacare, but that does not concern Trump. He just wants to destroy...
Some of the largest coal companies in the United States are using the coronavirus crisis to pressure Congress to slash...
From his guidance rolling back paid leave benefits to his attempt to limit who qualifies for beefed up unemployment insurance, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s...
While millions are facing health and financial uncertainty and unemployment rolls are reaching record levels due to the novel coronavirus...
The National Labor Relations Board finalized a rule this week that critics warn could make unionizing “nearly impossible for workers” at a moment when...
Economy / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published January 14, 2020
Every month when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its monthly jobs report, Donald Trump and Republicans crow about the...
Corporate social responsibility is the second-biggest con of 2019 (Donald Trump remains in first place). Consider Boeing, whose board just...
The Trump administration is trying once again to tweak the rules that govern how tipped workers are paid. This time,...
When billionaire Jeff Bezos cut health benefits on September 13 for part-time workers at his grocery store Whole Foods the...
In an interview ahead of Labor Day, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka said workers across the nation are suffering under President...
Trump promised a manufacturing revival in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, but after losing manufacturing jobs, voters in those states look...
Stephen Smith worked at an AT&T call center in Meriden, Connecticut, for over 20 years before the giant telecoms company...
Walmart’s shareholder meeting drew some star power on Wednesday, just not the kind the retailer was hoping for. Sen. Bernie...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took lunch orders, served pizza and rocked the cocktail shaker on Friday...
Bernie Sanders, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, is preparing to gatecrash Walmart’s annual meeting to demand the world’s biggest retailer...
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and projections from the Projections Managing Partnership, Yahoo Finance has charted which jobs...
Last year’s downturn in solar installations put a damper on the clean energy party in the US, but that’s only...
Most Americans believe that a rising tide should lift all boats—that as the economy expands, everybody should reap the rewards....
Last fall, the University of Delaware, in partnership with the Energy and Climate Academy of Denmark, announced it was creating a...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fastest growing occupation in the US is solar PV installer, with a projected...
While Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is getting much-deserved for her handling of the shutdown President Donald Trump instigated...
When members of Congress introduced legislation this week raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, it was in...
A program has been created by HBI and IREC to help at-risk youth get jobs in the solar power industry. Solar...
Voters in Arkansas and Missouri have approved a ballot initiative that would significantly raise the minimum wage in their states,...
There’s a wildly incorrect claim that Republicans are more “pro-job” or “pro-economy” than Democrats. That’s absolutely not true… Read more…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) congratulated Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday for announcing he would raise wages to $15 per...
The US energy efficiency industry added more new jobs than any other industry in the country’s entire energy sector in...
The White House announced Thursday that they would be canceling scheduled pay increases for government employees, citing budget concerns. In a...
Wells Fargo was ordered to pay California employees $97 million for violating the state’s labor laws. Judge Percy Anderson handed...
Charles French, the president of the Greensboro City Workers’ Union, took a mic and told the crowd to go to...
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the...
The first comprehensive study of the massive pay gap between the US executive suite and average workers has found that...
A new bill aimed at bolstering unions’ power and ending abuses by employers was met with loud cheers in Washington,...
Uber and Lyft drivers in the US make a median profit of $3.37 per hour before taxes, according to a...
The Fight for $15, the movement that has galvanized city campaigns to raise the pay of low-wage workers, is teaming...
As Donald Trump celebrates Labor Day by proposing to slash taxes for CEOs such as himself, it may come as...
U.S. activists plan protests in up to 400 cities across the United States on Monday’s Labor Day holiday to demand...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.
