The Minimum Wage: Lower Than it Was in 1968? If you account for inflation it is, according to an op-ed in today’s New York Times: Today, a worker laboring 40 hours a week nonstop throughout the year for the federal minimum wage could barely keep a family of two above the federal poverty line. ...
“In the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks, all American reactors have made preparations to limit damages from potential threats like airplanes piloted by terrorists.” The New York Times today published a piece, In Tour, U.S. Nuclear Plant Opens Doors to Make Case, about a Tennessee nuclear plant (Browns Ferry), opening its doors to show the world how different it is from the damaged plants in Japan. Despite being ...
Ted Leo Covers Woody Guthrie for Wisconsin Ted Leo, a New Jersey native and punk music lifer, writes on his band’s website about what led to him recording a co
“With over $6 trillion of workers’ money in retirement plans, pension funds, profit-sharing and stock plans, workers have the ability to reshape the economy and political priorities of the economic elite.” We Party Patriots favorite Mike Elk penned a piece of crucial reading for union supporters on Friday. In In These Times, Elk writes about recent suggestions by Stephen Lerner to stage boycotts, sit-ins and other disruptions of massive bank chains in ...
