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  1. It’s Been 25 Years Since Restaurant Workers Got a Raise Waitress Sheila Abramson at Langer's Delicatessen serves customers on February 26, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … Thanks to the efforts of industry groups like the National Restaurant Association -- or "the other NRA," as I like to call them -- which has stymied efforts to raise wages for restaurant workers, April 1 marked the 25th year Continue reading
  2. What Does Paul Ryan Really Mean by the Phrase “Inner City”? Google Ngram Offers a Clue
    3 Mar 2014 … The history of the phrase 'inner city' seems to buttress assertions that it comes with racial connotations. Continue reading
  3. History Without History "We are radicals at heart. It is time we recognize it. It is time we embrace our radical history," writes Harvey Kaye. (The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull /Wikimedia Commons)
    1 Jan 2021 … The second impeachment, popular outcry, and continuing stories about the likely involvement of administration figures in the coup attempt seem to have trimmed Trump’s wings in his last days in office. Continue reading
  4. Book Excerpt: Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats
    10 Oct 2012 … Bill recently interviewed author Chrystia Freeland on Moyers & Company. Her book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, was published last week and is the inaugural book in the Moyers Book Club. Continue reading
  5. Raising the Minimum Wage and Affordable Child Care Go Hand in Hand
    11 Nov 2014 … Access to early childhood education, quality child care and after-school programs should be implemented with minimum wage raises. Continue reading
  6. The Four Biggest Economic Challenges Veterans Face
    11 Nov 2013 … Re-entry into society for returning war veterans is particularly difficult given the current economic climate. Continue reading
  7. Staying the Course in Iraq and ‘Front Lines and Food Lines: American Military Families’ U.S. Army Soldiers and members of Sons of Iraq move to their next checkpoint during a checkpoint establishment operation in the Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq, March 6, 2008. The Soldiers are from 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Michael Hendrickson)
    4 Apr 2004 … With soldiers in Iraq making a base pay of as little as about $1300 per month, are America's service men and women worrying about their families affording their basic needs back home? Continue reading
  8. Who Are the ‘Legitimate’ Poor? A woman and her daughter counts out Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) coupons, more commonly known as Food Stamps, while shopping for groceries in the GrowNYC Greenmarket in Union Square. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2016 … Recently, I disobeyed a cardinal rule of the Internet and decided to read comments on an article I once published in the Missoula Independent. I had begun writing about raising my daughters on very little income, which opened me up Continue reading
  9. ‘Fiscal Crisis’ or Physical Crisis in Philadelphia’s Public Schools? Germantown, Philadelphia students
    6 Jun 2014 … A former teaching fellow writes that sometimes reforms meant to help our most disadvantaged kids end up exacerbating inequality and depriving them of fundamental basics. Continue reading
  10. Yes, Being a Woman Makes You Poorer Gender gap as Uni applications rise. File photo dated 12/10/11 of students wearing mortar boards and gowns after graduating as rising numbers of would-be students have submitted applications to go to university this year, but men are still far less likely to apply than women, official figures show. Issue date: Friday January 31, 2014. Young men are becoming a disadvantaged group when it comes to studying for a degree and urgent attention needs to be paid to the problem, according to Ucas. Within the next decade, the gulf between the numbers of men and women going into higher education could eclipse the gap between the numbers of rich and poor students studying at university, Ucas chief executive Mary Curnock Cook suggested. See PA story EDUCATION Students. Photo credit should read: Chris Radburn/PA Wire URN:18842076
    4 Apr 2014 … Women are much more likely to have minimum-wage jobs than men and female-headed households are more likely to be poor. Continue reading