"Words that make actions speak louder."
Business leaders who call themselves Smart Capitalists were on Capitol Hill to lobby for legislation that would increase the minimum wage. For one of them, Leo Hindery, this is about ethics as well as economics.
Millions of women are the backbone of the services sector yet struggle to provide the basics for their families. Here’s how they would benefit from a $10.10 minimum wage.
Ninety-five years after the institution of the first gasoline tax, what we’re paying to maintain and improve the network hasn’t kept pace. A bill pending in the House calls for an update.
There are danger signs that an effort to open up more money for better roads and public transportation will reward the corporate tax-dodging the administration and a majority of Americans want to eliminate.
Today’s unemployment report, coming on the heels of the Senate’s filibuster of emergency jobless benefits, is the bitter fruit of a broader campaign of obstructing measures we need to put people back to work.
Senators – particularly Republicans – need to be flooded with calls this afternoon and Monday from members of the public who say, “End the stalling. Vote to reinstate emergency jobless benefits now.”
The buzz today over a surprisingly positive jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics should not obscure the big picture. Job-seekers are still suffering because of reckless spending cuts and Republican legislative obstruction.
Let’s send a loud, clear message to Congress that we expect those who are doing well in today’s economy to pay their fair share and end their gaming of the tax system.
The veto is the latest in a nationwide battle to end the practices of companies such as Walmart that build their businesses on the backs of workers receiving poverty wages and on the backs of taxpayers who subsidize their businesses.
“Stand With Detroit” is about standing up to the conservative bullies in Congress and the states who have launched a sustained attack against cities and the programs that support their economic vitality.