Category: Inequality
Trump pledged to hike the minimum wage to $10 an hour, but once in office, the corporate president coldly turned his back on underpaid workers.
Although Trump is fond of surrounding himself with union members, he doesn’t really like unions, especially ones that challenge him or dare to question.
In a letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the lawmakers begged the administration to tie capital gains to inflation.
Approximately 15,600 deaths would have been averted had the ACA expansions been adopted nationwide as originally intended by the ACA.
This tax bill was constructed on a foundation of lies. To cite, the real U.S. corporate tax rate has never been near the oft-cited 35 percent level.
Companies would do nothing for the workers unless forced by collective action. Labor unions were instruments of both economic and social justice.
The crisis on our farms will not only to devastate our country's rural economy and culture but invade our kitchens and bite us on the butt.
States and cities, which incur most of the cost of prisons, are increasingly passing the financial burden of ankle monitors onto those who wear them.
Despite the low unemployment rate seen in June's jobs report, workers' wages are still rising too slowly in the US economy.
The tax code already favored real estate developers like Trump, and his overhaul made it even friendlier, in the guise of aiding poor communities.
During the past few decades, our system has been wholly corporatized, perverting health care from a human right to just another commodity for sale.
Running as a democratic socialist who seeks to complete FDR’s agenda, Sanders straddles the border between social democracy and left liberalism.
Far from reducing inequality and defending workers as promised, Trump has intentionally escalated the corporate war on working-class Americans.
"Power concedes nothing without a struggle" applies to the sexist executives overseeing US professional soccer, who need a swift kick where it hurts.
Dental suffering is a grim kind of economic indicator. The poor have worse oral health and it can be hard to find a dentist who will treat them.
