Truthout
Minimum Wage
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Fast-Food Strikes Fight the Slide into Junk Wages — For All of Us
While the odds are stacked against fast-food workers in this country their protest opens the conversation about raising the minimum wage.
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The Minimum Wage Doesn’t Apply to Everyone
Millions of working Americans make less than minimum wage. In fact, more Americans are exempt from it than actually earn it.
McDonalds Tells Workers to Toil 70 Hours a Week, Use Ripoff Payroll Cards as Part of “Financial Literacy“
The use of math, one imagines, is intended to make the advice seem objective rather than cynical and self-serving.
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Mr. President, Have Pity on the Working Man
Tax payers' dollars are being wasted on a job creation program that only works to widen the gap of inequality.
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Tensions Rise as Walmart Refuses to Pay “Living Wage“
As Walmart threatens to take its revenue out of the District, citizens organize to show politicians they serious about raising the minimum wage.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Had a Closed-Door Meeting With the Entire Senate Last Night, and More
In today's On the News segment: After weeks of threatening filibuster reform, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had a closed-door meeting with the entire Senate last night.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republican Sequester Wreaks Havoc on Our Economy, and More
Yesterday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced a huge revision to previous estimates of economic growth.
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Real Faces of the Minimum Wage
Most minimum-wage workers are adults, the majority of them are women, and many are parents who are trying to raise their children on poverty wages.
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Time to Demand a Vote to Increase the Minimum Wage
Isaiah J. Poole: This week, the effort to get Congress to act is accelerating.
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The Hidden Money
Debates in countries over laws to curb tax evasion miss the point, according to Richard D. Wolff.