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Big company CEOs got a 23 percent raise last year and corporate profits are at record highs. But the minimum wage has…
Holly Sklar
Holly Sklar is in wiid publisearre op-ed kollumnist en auteur. Har op-eds foar de Knight Ridder / Tribune News Service binne ferskynd yn hûnderten kranten en online ferkeappunten. Sklar is mei-auteur fan "Raise The Floor: Wages and Policies That Work For All Of Us", dy't Barbara Ehrenreich neamt, "In kommandant wurk en krêftich ark foar de libbene leanbeweging" (www.raisethefloor.org). De oare boeken fan Sklar omfetsje "Chaos of Mienskip? Oplossingen sykje, net Scapegoats foar minne ekonomy," begroet as "in tour-de-force fan tagonklike ekonomy en sosjale analyze," en "Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood," it breed learde ferhaal fan hoe't it Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in lange ferearme Boston-mienskip opbout as in dynamysk stedsdoarp. It earste boek fan Sklar, "Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management," foarsei de wrâldwide bedriuwsekonomy foardat "globalisaasje" in buzzword wie. Se is in meiwurker oan tal fan middelbere skoallen en hegeskoallen tekstbloemlezingen en is in faak gast op talk radio.
Before Wall Street drove our economy off a cliff, bullish Citigroup strategists dubbed the United States a "plutonomy." They said, "There are…
Are you better off than you were 40 years ago? Not if you’re a minimum wage worker. It would take $9.92…
In today’s mad world, underpaid workers are bailing out banks and corporations run by overpaid, undertaxed bosses who milked their companies and…
Minimum wage workers have been stuck in a losing game of "Mother May I" with the federal government. Workers step forward when…
When it comes to cutting taxes for the wealthy, President Bush can truly say, "Mission accomplished." The richest 1 percent of Americans…
When it comes to producing billionaires, America is doing great. Until 2005, multimillionaires could still make the Forbes list of the 400…
Minimum wage workers made $5.15 an hour when Harry Potter became a sensation a decade ago, and nothing more until July 24,…
Imagine a country where one out of five children is born into poverty and wealth is being redistributed upward. Since the 1970s,…
The minimum wage is headed for a raise — back to the 1950s. That’s right, even after rising from $5.15 now to…