Highest Minimum-Wage State Washington Beats U.S. Job Growth By Victoria Stilwell, Peter Robison and William Selway March 05, 2014 11:54 AM EST When Washington residents voted in 1998 to raise the state’s minimum wage and link it to the cost of living, opponents warned the measure would be a job-killer. The prediction hasn’t been borne…
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Exclusive: Freed Ex-Black Panther Marshall “Eddie” Conway on 44 Years in Prison & FBI Surveillance DOWNLOAD: VIDEOAUDIOGET CD/DVDMORE FORMATS In a Democracy Now! exclusive, former Black Panther Party leader Marshall “Eddie” Conway joins us less than 24 hours after his release from nearly 44 years in prison. Supporters describe Conway as one of the country’s…
After Historic UAW Defeat at Tennessee Volkswagen Plant, Theories Abound BY Mike Elk On February 14, United Auto Workers President Bob King (L) and Secretary-Treasurer Dennis Williams (R) prepare to respond to the union’s election loss at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., which the UAW blames on interference from right-wing politicians. (Mike Elk) Workers…
By Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman Source: Sketch by Thomas R. Davis, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division A slave being auctioned, 1861. When the New York City banker James Brown tallied his wealth in 1842, he had to look far below Wall Street to trace its origins. His investments in the American South…
State of the Union: Right on Wages, Wrong on Trade John Nichols on January 28, 2014 – 10:20 PM ET (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) President Obama wants 2014 to be a “year of action” in which the country finally begins to address a wealth gap that has made the term “income inequality” the catchphrase of the…
Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on. Barbara Ehrenreich Jan 13 2014, 10:09 AM ET Binita Pradham is a single mother who runs a food business and raises her 4-year-old son. (Barbara Reis) Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson made…