Minimum Wage

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

If you believe that poverty is the domain of the comfortably poor, black, unemployed, unmotivated and uneducated among us, you have been sadly misled.

Romney's $450,000/week income comes from ... get this ... shipping jobs to China!

Romney repeatedly misleading viewers. He spoke for 38 minutes of the 90 minute debate and told at least 27 myths:

Workers responsible for moving an estimated $1 trillion worth of goods a year through the global economy are paid low wages, often denied breaks and basic protective gear, and …

Many employers in nineteen states can now keep state income taxes withheld from paychecks.

Over three decades, voters in California starved their state - and so their colleges and universities - of cash.

Jim Hightower: Recent studies show that increasing the minimum wage even during hard times is good policy, providing higher pay but no loss of jobs.

The president does not want the public to know that what he is saying in the spotlight of the campaign trail is the opposite of what he is negotiating …

Despite worries about sagging consumer confidence and shrinking paychecks, business leaders seem unconcerned about the declining standard of living of middle-class America, or about the growing number of American …