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[Translate] Dear Casey Coates, The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has not been raised since 2009. That’s 13 years, the longest...

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Aug 23, 2017 by

[Translate] “No more half-measures,” warns prominent climate author and activist by Jake Johnson, staff writer  ...

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[Translate] Migrant workers say they weren’t paid minimum wage for their work in the company’s fields. Chuck Abbott  MOTHER JONES...

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Apr 7, 2017 by

[Translate] Robert Borosage  OURFUTURE.ORG In his first 70 days in office, President Donald Trump is shedding his most popular...

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Feb 22, 2017 by

[Translate] Activism If Republicans get full control of a few more State Houses, they will have the frightening power to amend the...

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Feb 22, 2017 by

[Translate]   A decade ago, some barons of the media establishment designated themselves America’s official arbiters of political...

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Dec 19, 2016 by

[Translate] Finland will soon hand out cash to 2,000 jobless people, free of bureaucracy or limitson side earnings. The idea,...

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Nov 15, 2016 by

[Translate] David Bornstein and Tina Rosenberg   NYTIMES Photo Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times The election of Donald J. Trump...

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Sep 28, 2016 by

[Translate] Labor Cambodia is a popular spot for American and European brands to subcontract production of textiles and shoes. By...

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Jan 21, 2016 by

[Translate] Economy The Davos people talk about poverty and pledge money to charity. But it’s just spare change to them. By...

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Jan 2, 2016 by

[Translate] Getty Images By Lydia Wheeler -THE HILL President Obama is preparing to unleash a wave of new regulations in 2016 as he...

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Dec 6, 2015 by

[Translate] by Bryce Covert THINK PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Gareth Patterson Walmart CEO Doug McMillon   A California city is...

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Sep 10, 2015 by

[Translate] Economy Forget private morality–we have a crisis of public morality. By Robert Reich / Robert Reich’s Blog At...

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Aug 2, 2015 by

[Translate] Steven Rattner  NYTIMES TO some, millennials — those urban-dwelling, ride-sharing indefatigable social networkers — are...

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Jul 25, 2015 by

[Translate] by Bryce Covert THINK PROGRESS CREDIT: Bryce Covert/ThinkProgress Inside the New York wage board meeting just after the...

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Four Ways ALEC Tried to Ruin Y...

Jul 13, 2015 by

[Translate]   Election 2016 ALEC’s anti-democratic, unaccountable, privatized agenda. By Jessica Mason / Center for Media...

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Jun 9, 2015 by

[Translate] By Dean Hubbard  SIERRA CLUB Image Source: Screenshot from the video of Michael Brune speaking. Last Friday Sierra Club...

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Jun 2, 2015 by

[Translate]   Leo Gerard  AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE It’s all the rage now for Republican presidential candidates to spurn the...

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Jun 2, 2015 by

[Translate] American workers are conditioned to expect less and less even as they do more and more. And it’s killing them. Kyle...

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Sen. Warren Backs Plan for Wor...

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[Translate] Elite interests holding all the cards but one, say proponents of grassroots uprising… And that card is ‘the...

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Mar 11, 2015 by

[Translate] Sarah van Gelder YES MAGAZINE Note: Ralph Nader and Daniel McCarthy will be responding to selected reader comments...

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