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White House announces new executive actions on guns
By Carrie Dann The White House on Thursday announced two executive actions that it says will close loopholes that allow the most dangerous types of firearms from falling into the wrong hands. The new policies come as legislative action on … Continue reading
Eric Holder Says DOJ Will Let Washington, Colorado Marijuana Laws Go Into Effect
By Ryan J. Reilly & Ryan Grimm The United States government took an historic step back from its long-running drug war on Thursday, when Attorney General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of Justice would … Continue reading
Ten Ways Criminal Justice Is One Of The Great Civil Rights Crises Of Our Time
By Nicole Flatow The last few months have issued several potent reminders that racism still pervades our criminal justice system, as even some prominent and powerful American black leaders publicly professed that they had to warn their young sons about … Continue reading
Raising kids on McDonald’s wages: ‘Some days I’ve been up for 48 hours’
Latoya Jemes was working the drive-thru line at a McDonald’s in downtown Memphis one night when a man leaned out of his car window and asked if she’d be interested in taking part in a strike. Jemes hadn’t heard about the … Continue reading
For Restaurant Workers, A Struggle To Put Food On The Table
By Jennifer Ludden Losia Nyankale, 29, didn’t mean to make a career in the restaurant business. But after two years of college, her schoolteacher mom lost her job and could no longer pay tuition. Then, Nyankale’s temp jobs in bookkeeping dried … Continue reading
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Tagged Day care, family, Home, income inequality, low income, New York, Restaurant, wages
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Join The Booming Dollar Store Economy! Low Pay, Long Hours, May Work While Injured
Dawn Hughey had worked at Dollar General for just four months when she was named manager of a store in the Detroit suburbs in 2009. Having recently moved home after a stint in California, Hughey hoped the new honorific — and its … Continue reading
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Tagged Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, retail, United States, Variety store, wages, Walmart, workers
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Where Have America’s Wages Gone?
By Richard (RJ) Eskow A new briefing paper from the Economic Policy Institute provides an overview of the income stagnation currently plaguing the vast majority of Americans. “A Decade of Flat Wages,” by Lawrence Mishel and Heidi Shierholz, offers valuable background on … Continue reading
The High Probability of Being Poor in America
By Matt Bruenig Late last month, the Associated Press ran a report about economic insecurity that managed to gain some traction in certain parts of the political internet, and since then, again and again in certain relevant debates. The statistical … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Inequality, poverty, Poverty threshold, United States, Welfare
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Congressman: The Jobless Are Like Lazy Kids Who Need To ‘Step Up’
By Alan Pyke The trick to fixing the toughest job market since the Great Depression is to send jobless Americans to bed without supper, according to Rep. Steve King (R-IA). Speaking in Charleston, South Carolina on Monday, after arguing that … Continue reading
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