“How can we get 64 million low-wage workers to the polls?”
Poverty-income workers and their allies gathered to strategize on how to mobilize the 64 million workers who earn less than $15 an hour to go to the polls.
Missouri senate defeats “paycheck deception” bill
The bill would have forced workers to "opt-in" to having their dues taken out of their paychecks--a scheme that weakens unions.
Rubio: God demands free enterprise
Rubio did not explain how his Administration would finance anything at all after cutting taxes for the rich and giving tax refunds for health insurance.
Elizabeth Warren rolls out women's economic agenda
"Achieving pay equality for women isn't enough - we have to make sure that all workers, men and women, are earning enough to live on."
Washington State electorate gives green light on important issues
Tacoma voters approved a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2018, a partial victory.
MillionStudentMarch demands end to education profiteering, wage stagnation
According to the #MillionStudentMarch website, 58 percent of the $1 trillion owed in student loans are held by the poorest 23 percent of Americans.
Bernie Sanders rallies in Northwest draw record crowds
Sanders appealed for unity, and declared that having good jobs, racial, and gender equality, health care, and higher education for all "is not utopian dreaming."
Low wage strikes and protests biggest in U.S. history
Low-wage workers in over 200 cities, backed by the nation's unions, walked off their jobs or joined protesters yesterday from one end of the nation to the other.
Working Families Party says Cuomo must deliver more
The New York Working Families Party called on the state's governor and the state legislature to enact an agenda that puts "working families first."
Rebel with a cause – a young Ferguson commissioner
"It's always difficult being young and a minority of anything. Because you always end up asking yourself, 'will my voice really be heard?' "
