Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Tipped Workers Score A Victory In New York In Fight For Better Pay
Today\’s order from the New York state Hospitality Wage Board follows years of protest and campaigning by low-wage workers throughout the state, who have not seen an increase in the tipped wage since 2011.
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Walmart Worker Victory Shows What We Can Win If We Keep Fighting
Credit goes to the campaigns launched by a number of grassroots organizations that for years have shone a light on the anti-worker policies that are endemic in big-box retailing, but especially Walmart.
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Why We Must Oppose The Coming Fed Interest Rate Hike [Video]
Economist Dean Baker explains the reasoning behind the effort to get organizations to endorse a petition calling on the Fed to back away from an interest rate hike that could drive up unemployment.
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\’Protect Your Vote\’ Campaign Calls For a Constitutional Right To Vote
An amendment would complete the work started by the Voting Rights Act almost 50 years ago, and undo the damage done five years ago by the Supreme Court\’s \”Citizens United\” ruling.
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More Proof Conservative Anti-Tax Dogma Only Applies To The Rich
The story is pretty much the same in conservative state after conservative state: The 1 percent pay a significantly lower percentage of their income in state and local taxes than middle-income residents.
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As You\’re #StuckInTraffic, Don\’t Get Stuck With A Bad Tax Deal
A Twitter town hall today seeks to turn a plan that should be considered politically outrageous into politically inevitable – unless, of course, concerned citizens act to make it politically toxic.
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Jobs Report: Decent News In Spite Of A GOP With Its Foot On The Brakes
Austerity policies have largely set the parameters of the policy debate over how to grow the economy for the past four years. We will need accelerated growth to sustain and build upon the gains that the economy has made.
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California, \’State of Inequality\’: Series Tackles Growing Wealth Gap
The website Capital & Main launches a month-long expose on how rampant inequality in California is leaving nearly everyone behind. The series hopes to inform the national progressive movement for economic reform.
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Obama Un-\”chained\”? His Latest Pledge To Defend Social Security
What should we make of language in the 2016 budget that puts the administration in opposition to \”any measures that privatize or weaken the Social Security system\” or \”slashes benefits for future generations\”?
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Barbara Boxer and Rand Paul Create A Tax Monster
A former Campaign for America\’s Future \”Progressive Champion\” and a libertarian Republican have jointly created a Frankenstein of a plan that pardons corporations for their past tax avoidance.