"Words that make actions speak louder."
The head of AFSCME is being honored for going beyond being a fierce defender of public employees to being an effective coalition-builder in the larger fight for the dignity of all working people.
A campaign by National People’s Action is mobilizing grassroots political support for robust Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules that will rein in the payday lending industry, in anticipation of well-funded pushback.
Getting out the vote in African-American communities is important, but that effort needs to be supported by policies that communities can support to close the persistent wealth gap between black and white people.
A lot of eyes will be on the Federal Reserve Friday when the Labor Department releases its August unemployment statistics. Meanwhile, the fight to keep the Fed’s eyes focused on unemployment is preparing for its next phase.
A student trying to save for tuition at an acting school works at a restaurant that pays her $2.77 an hour – so she’s trying to earn enough in tips to cover the cost. Consider what’s wrong with this picture.
Two University of Delaware economists looked at the 13 states that have raised their minimum wage and actually found that the job prospects of low-skilled workers in those states improved slightly.
Public-private partnerships for transportation projects offer a way for politicians to dodge tough choices about how to pay for the transportation network the public uses. It doesn’t always work.
The rallying point is Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers’ Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act: “It’s past time for our government to make creating jobs and full employment a human right.”
Fortune lists companies that “sure seem American—except when it comes to paying taxes” and publishes a denunciation of an “exceptionalism” that enables companies to avoid taxes but benefit from being American.
A stalled effort to get a transportation funding bill through a Senate committee is the latest sign that congressional Republicans won’t stop playing the zero-sum austerity game.