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40 Percent of Americans Now Make Less than 1968 Minimum Wage

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

nationofchange.org - By Dave Johnson - Feb. 22 (Special Report) - The minimum wage would be $16.50 an hour — $33,000 a year — if it had kept up with the growth of productivity since 1968. To put the effect of this a different way, 40% of Americans now make less than the 1968 minimum wage, had the minimum wage kept pace with productivity gains.

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Barack Obama: "Women (are) paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men."

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Jun. 21 (Fact Check) - President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign released a new ad aimed at women on June 21, 2012. Here’s the narration: "The son of a single mom, proud father of two daughters, President Obama knows that women being paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men isn't just unfair, it hurts families. So the first law he signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help ensure that women are paid the same as men for doing the exact same work. Because President Obama knows that fairness for women means a stronger middle class for America." In this item, we're checking the claim that "women (are) paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men." The 77 cent figure has become a rallying cry for those who seek to eliminate employment discrimination based on gender. And it’s a genuine statistic. In a report released in September 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau wrote that in 2010, the female-to-male earnings ratio of full-time, year-round workers was 0.77." Translated into dollars, that means that in 2010, women working full-time earned 77 cents for every dollar earned by men working full time.

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Cities Crack Down on Homelessness With New Laws - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Chronicle of Philanthropy - By Chronicle Staff - Jun. 12 (News Report) - Dozens of U.S. cities are cracking down on camping and providing food for people in public in what antipoverty activists characterize as an attempt by urban officials to criminalize homelessness, writes USA Today.

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50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - Oct. 20 (News) - ... the lowest level since 1999, after adjusting for inflation

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Massive Unemployment: Proof That Global Capitalism Doesn't Work

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Steve Fraser, Joshua B. Freeman, - Sep. 12 (News Analysis) - In the coming years, might we see the return of a basic American horror at the phenomenon of joblessness? And might it drive Americans to begin to ask deeper questions about the system that lives and feeds on it? After all, we now exist in an under-developing economy. What new jobs it is creating are poor paying, low skill, and often temporary, nor are there enough of them to significantly reduce the numbers of those out of work. The 99ers are stark evidence that we may be witnessing the birth of a new permanent class of the marginalized.

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Discharged for Being Gay, Veterans Seek to Re-enlist

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Dao - Sep. 04 (Investigative Report) - .By some estimates, hundreds of gay men and lesbians among the more than 13,000 who were discharged under the policy have contacted recruiters or advocacy groups saying they want to re-enlist after the policy is repealed on Sept. 20.

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Verizon Workers Strike Over "Full-Scale Attack" on Wages, Benefits at Telecom Giant

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Some 45,000 workers at Verizon have entered their fifth day on strike after negotiations between Verizon and two unions representing the workers broke down when the company attempted to cut health and pension benefits for workers and make it easier to fire workers. The workers on strike are employed in Verizon’s fixed-line division covering landline phones, DSL internet, FiOS, cable TV and internet.

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Homeless shelter: Homeless shelter blames cuts on government

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Alexandra Zavis - Jun. 26 (News Report) - Union Rescue Mission, faced with a $1.3-million shortfall, says the government doesn't cover all the programs' costs or is slow to pay.

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Punishing Worker Success Doesn't Count

Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

sensen-no-sen.blogspot.com - By Paul Belle-Isle - May. 08 (News) - There is a vast and sensible middle ground in which some people pay more to create an environment in which everyone has a better shot at success, and such an environment is crucial to avoiding the stagnation of our society and encouraging upward mobility. Success should be rewarded, but the plain fact is that, for most people, right now, it simply isn't.

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Supporters say hiking minimum wage helps economy, opponents say it hurts

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Maryland Reporter - By Len Lazarick - Mar. 04 (News) - A proposal to increase Maryland’s minimum wage was both applauded and condemned in front of the Senate Finance Committee by economists, business owners, lobbyists and employees on Thursday.

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Op-Ed Contributor: How to End the Great Recession - International Herald Tribune: Editorials

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:34:07 -0700

New York Times - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - To fix the U.S. economy, we must finally deal with wage inequality.

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Creating Jobs - Two Better Ways To Do It

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Leo Hindery, Jr. - Aug. 10 (Opinion) - In mid-April in this blog, I took exception to Robert Reich's op-ed in the Financial Times which I thought completely misread the massive job-creation predicament we are in when he declared that the economic recovery largely rested at the doorsteps of America's small businesses, specifically "companies with fewer than 100 employees". Last week I repeated my concern after President Obama went to a submarine sandwich shop in New Jersey to highlight his efforts to support small business growth. I wrote that the United States is not going to create anything close to the 22 million jobs we are 'missing' today by making a shop with just five employees the 'model' for future job growth, not when the State of Michigan alone lost more than 230,000 jobs in 2009 on top of the hundreds of thousands it and 45 other States lost in the prior ten years.

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Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:47:31 -0700

New York Times - By Steven Greenhouse, David Leonhardt - Aug. 28 (News Analysis) - With the economy beginning to slow, the current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic growth since World War II that fails to offer a prolonged increase in real wages for most workers. That situation is adding to fears among Republicans that the economy will hurt vulnerable incumbents in this year’s midterm elections even though overall growth has been healthy for much of the last five years.

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