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#economic inequality
  • Why We Need a Retail Workers Bill of Rights
    August 14, 2014
    | Mackenzie Baris
    Despite its high minimum wage, San Francisco has the second-highest rate of income inequality among major US cities.
  • No Safe Place: How Cities Are Making it Illegal to Be Homeless
    August 13, 2014
    | Michael Maskin
    Laws criminalizing sitting, sleeping, lying down and camping leave homeless people with nowhere to go when the shelter system fails them.
  • When a People's CEO is Fired, Workers Speak Out
    August 12, 2014
    | Robert Reich
    A popular CEO who promoted low prices and high wages gets fired, and his employees and customers rally to his defense.
  • Inequality
    Wall Street Analysts: High Inequality Makes Us Vulnerable to Crashes
    August 7, 2014
    | Joshua Holland
    In addition to slowing growth, stagnant wages leave American households in debt and without much savings.
  • Beyond the Minimum Wage: What’s Really Keeping Hourly Workers in Poverty?
    August 6, 2014
    | Sarita Gupta
    In the debate about poverty and rising economic inequality, we need to think beyond the minimum wage.
  • Economy & Work
    A Bill to Get the Labor Movement Back on Offense
    July 29, 2014
    | George Zornick
    Two House Democrats introduced a bill last week that would make labor organizing a basic freedom no different than freedom from racial discrimination.
  • Where "Compassionate Conservatism" Falls Apart
    July 28, 2014
    | Joshua Holland
    Joshua Holland points out some conservative myths raised in this week's interview, and debunks them.
  • Economy & Work
    Updates on Two American Pastimes: Baseball and Insider Trading
    July 28, 2014
    | Michael Winship
    Seasonal concession workers at AT&T Park finally got the contract they wanted and more about the Obamacare inside information that may have been illegally leaked by a Capitol Hill staffer to the SEC.
  • Is There a Connection Between CEOs' Narcissism and Corporate Tax-Dodging?
    July 23, 2014
    | Sam Pizzigati
    A new study suggests that there is and the finding justifies a maximum wage.
  • Inequality
    Tipped Workers' Minimum Wage Hasn't Increased Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
    July 10, 2014
    | Joshua Holland
    A new study debunks some of the most common myths about America's tipped workforce.


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