Starting Out Means a Steeper Climb
Steven Greenhouse
Young workers have it a lot tougher than their parents did.
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The Bare Minimum
Eric Schlosser : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Today's relentless arguments against a higher minimum wage suggest that Roosevelt's battle is not yet won.
2007
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Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Agriculture
The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
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Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?
Steve Early & Suzanne Gordon : Democratic Party
Americans spend more time on the job than workers in any other country. Isn't it time presumably labor-friendly Democrats did something about it?
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Cleaning Up After the Orioles
Thanks to some major-league grassroots organizing, workers who keep Baltimore's Camden Yards pristine are close to winning the right to a living wage.
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Travails of the Super-Rich
Barbara Ehrenreich : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
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The Missing Class
Eyal Press : Ethical Economics
Sociologist Katherine Newman talks about the "near poor," that vast pool of workers who are neither officially destitute nor comfortably working-class.
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What We Owe the Working Poor
Annette Bernhardt : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's recent decision to deny home-care workers the right to overtime pay is speeding a race to the bottom that will affect every working person.
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Tough Luck, Ladies
The Roberts Court rules that six months into being screwed by your boss, pay discrimination is your own damn fault.
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CEOs vs. Slaves
Barbara Ehrenreich : Gap Between Wealth & Poverty
New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and temporary attorneys.
2006
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Morality of the Minimum
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Sam Graham-Felsen : Electoral Politics
Let Justice Roll deserves credit for mobilizing values voters around minimum wage initiatives.
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The New Democratic Populism
Christopher Hayes : Democratic Party
Economic populism was the most underreported story of the midterms and will be the cornerstone of any new Democratic majority.
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The Moral Minimum
As the lagging minimum wage is being turned into a moral issue instead of an economic one, states are beginning to act where the federal government has not.
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The Growing Wage Gap
A winning economic strategy for Democrats: Push for realistic policies to relieve workers' frustrations, rebuild their damaged confidence and improve lifetime security.
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The Motherhood Manifesto
Joan Blades & Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner : Feminism & Women
Mothers in America are in serious need of a new deal to remedy a profound wage gap with other working women and men, and an outdated family support structure.
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$13,700 an Hour
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Democratic Party
The Democratic Party needs to reset its moral compass and close the gap between workers' pay and CEO salary by raising the minimum wage.
2004
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Down and Out in Discount America
Liza Featherstone : Feminism & Women
It's the poor who make Wal-Mart tick.
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Take It to the Blue States
Maybe labor should give up on Washington in favor of friendlier terrain.
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Working and Poor in the USA
Beth Shulman : Living Wage Campaign
A vast impoverished population languishes in the midst of our economy.
2002
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Going Down the Road
Jim Hightower : Living Wage Campaign
In less than eight years, grassroots coalitions coast to coast have won living-wage campaigns in seventy-nine cites and towns.
2001
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Yale Bites Unions
Harvard made headlines when it refused to pay a living wage, but when it comes to playing tough with unions, New Haven has Cambridge beat by a mile.
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Harvard's 'Fitting Choice'
Matt Bivens : Social & Economic Rights
Harvard may have an endowment of billions, but incoming president Larry Summers is unlikely to embrace the living-wage drive.
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Harvard's Shame
Benjamin L. McKean : Student Movements
Harvard pays more than 1,000 workers poverty wages while sitting on an endowment of almost billion.
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