From Unist’ot’en Camp: Think About Your Future
By Will Falk 5/22/2014 For most of my life, I have been concerned about my future. As a child, I studied hard to get good grades so I could grow up to be smart. In high school I studied hard to get...
View ArticleFrom Unist’ot’en Camp: No Word for Good-Bye
By Will Falk Leaving Unist’ot’en Camp was hard. As I stepped away from a group of new friends passing pens and notebooks around to share contact information, I found myself on the banks of the Morice...
View ArticleWhat Does ‘Clean Elections’ Really Mean?
By Judi Curry A local organization, Neighborhoods for Clean Elections, is leading a grass roots coalition with plans to put a clean elections initiative on the 2016 ballot. The initiative -- which is...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Stand Up for Increasing the Minimum Wage, San Diego!
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to exist in this country.” President Franklin D Roosevelt By Doug Porter It's been the season of...
View ArticleSeattle Wins $15 Minimum Wage—Will Your Town Be Next?
Activists built support for the ordinance by demonstrating that it would reduce poverty in the city. By YES! Editors Yesterday, June 2, the Seattle City Council approved a new ordinance that will raise...
View ArticleU.S. Lags Behind World in Temp Worker Protections
By Michael Grabell / ProPublica For nearly six years, Limber Herrera has toiled as a temp worker doing the same work for the same company in Mira Loma, Calif. About 40 hours a week, he unloads shipping...
View ArticleIn San Jose, a Minimum Wage Increase and Falling Unemployment
By Laura Clawson /Daily Kos Here's another example to point to when opponents of a higher minimum wage claim that it would cost jobs. The minimum in San Jose, California, has gone from $8.00 an hour to...
View ArticleScore One for the GOP- Immigration Reform is Dead
By Doug Porter Yesterday Illinois Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez rose on the floor of the House waving a red card (ala futbol) to pronounce the end of immigration reform. As Lawrence Downes,...
View ArticleAre African American Males an Endangered Species?
By John Lawrence As a white guy, this question is still very germane for me since my grandson is an African American male. Or rather he is half African American and half European American - actually a...
View ArticleWhat’s the Role of Race in the New Economy Movement?
by Penn Loh / Yes! There has been a growing buzz about what kind of economy we need in order to address wealth inequality, environmental unsustainability, and lack of democracy. Clearly, many desire...
View ArticlePoor People Aren’t Lazy, They’re Poor
by Marlana Eck / The Lehigh Valley Vanguard Poor people are just lazy.” “In life you just have to pull yourself up by your boot straps.” “This is America! Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.”...
View ArticleAdvertising: Are You Buying It?
Here’s an inescapable reality: There are only two ways to be rich – make more or want less. This is known as “Rimo’s Rule,” though that’s beside the point. Rather, the point here is to recognize, in...
View ArticleWhat Kind of City Are We? It’s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage
“The bottom line is that the minimum wage in 2013 is far less now than it was in 1968 despite the economy’s productivity more than doubling, and low-wage workers attaining far more education.”...
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Where’s the Public Outrage About Big Money in Politics?
200 people currently contribute 85% of all the money put into Super PACS. We should be furious about that. By Mike Papantonio / Alternet As a country born from revolution, America knows a lot about...
View ArticleDoes the Federal Reserve Print Money?
The Federal Reserve is America's Central Bank By John Lawrence The Fed doesn't actually "print" money in the sense of ink on paper hundred dollar bills. But what it can do is create money with a few...
View ArticleSan Diego Becomes Largest US City to Pass Minimum Wage Hike and Earned Sick...
By Doug Porter Supporters of a hike in local minimum wages left nothing to chance yesterday as a city council decision on a proposal by Todd Gloria neared. Over 400 hundred people showed up at city...
View ArticleEconomic Lynching
By Paul Buchheit / Common Dreams On October 26, 1934 Claude Neal, a black man accused of murdering a young white woman in Jackson County, Florida, was dragged from his jail cell to be lynched. The...
View ArticleLeft Behind
How LGBT Young People Are Excluded from Economic Prosperity By Zenen Jaimes Pérez / Center for American Progress The Millennial generation—the cohort of young people born in the early 1980s through the...
View ArticlePulling Back the Curtain of Production Concealment
By Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money Concealment. This is primary benefit of outsourcing work and supplies from the United States. That goods are produced far, far away from the eyes of consumers...
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