Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Two Campaigns This Week For A \”Fair Paycheck\” For Low-Wage Workers
As a \”Live the Wage Challenge\” highlights the struggle of living on the minimum wage, a campaign is beginning around legislation to curb work schedule abuses that make life even harder for low-wage workers.
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Ideology Takes A Toll On Transportation – And A Pushback Is Brewing
Public-private partnerships for transportation projects offer a way for politicians to dodge tough choices about how to pay for the transportation network the public uses. It doesn\’t always work.
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House Republicans Say No To A Fair Wage For Government Workers
An appropriations amendment by Rep. Alan Grayson would have required the federal government to pay a minimum wage of $10.10 an hour to its employees. A Republican opponent offered an absurd objection.
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Progressive Demand: \”Robust, Long-Term\” Transportation Funding
CAF today called on members of Congress to \”quickly renew robust, long-term funding for the Highway Trust Fund\” as the House prepares to vote on a short-term fix and the White House launches a public relations offensive.
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Congress Aims To Offer Highway Trust Fund A Chance To Die Another Day
Members of both parties in both houses have elected to reduce the debate over transportation spending to a discussion of the size and material of the Band-Aid, rather than what it would take to cure the patient.
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Building The Full Employment Movement
The rallying point is Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers\’ Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act: \”It\’s past time for our government to make creating jobs and full employment a human right.\”
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Companies That Evade Federal Taxes Still Get Federal Contracts
Ingersoll-Rand, which changed its corporate address to Bermuda to avoid American corporate taxes, is one of at least a dozen such companies that together get more than $1 billion in federal contract dollars annually.
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Corporate Tax Behavior So Bad Even Fortune Magazine Can\’t Stomach It
Fortune lists companies that \”sure seem American—except when it comes to paying taxes\” and publishes a denunciation of an \”exceptionalism\” that enables companies to avoid taxes but benefit from being American.
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What\’s Missing From The Jobs Report: A Construction Boom
With the federal government stymied in its ability to help state and local governments launch long-term public infrastructure projects, we\’re seeing the ripple effects in the employment statistics.
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Mitch McConnell Has A Bridge To Sell You, And Kentuckians Aren\’t Buying
The Senate minority leader thinks the best way to help pay for a $2.7 billion bridge rebuilding project in Kentucky is to stiff the workers who would do the work. A poll shows that idea is wildly unpopular.