Minimum Wage

Peter Dreier looks back at 2012 and 25 powerful progressive victories, including elections, ballot measures, court rulings, legislation and new waves of mobilization.

Eleanor Roosevelt was a bold progressive and, from the 1930s until her death, one of the most well-known and admired people in the United States and around the world.

Strike fever isn't just for Walmart workers anymore.

Both Republican and Democratic plans for the economy leave the system that produced this crisis and will produce more crises unchanged. There IS an alternative, argues economist Rick Wolff.

One in four workers in the United States is employed in a low-wage job.

States, counties and cities are giving up more than $80 billion each year to companies, with few results.

There is a 30-year backlog of policies to fix the extreme maldistribution of wages and opportunity in the labor market.

Walmart workers to protest conditions, wages on biggest shopping day of the year.

If President Obama truly believes in strengthening the middle class, he will revisit legislation to raise the minimum wage so that people can start to invest in the country …

The plight of disabled adults and hungry kids get short shrift this election year and only one party platform addresses remedies.