By Justin Miller | Originally Published at American Prospect. July 24, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Good Jobs NationThe Fight for $15 comes to Washington. Just outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, hundreds of workers wearing blue shirts that said "Strike!" rallied for more pay. Leaders led [...]
As well as fighting for women’s equality, we should be lobbying for men to be equal partners at home. The financial and cultural benefits would change our world. Tony has been accumulating identities. He’s the son of Mexican immigrants; his father was abusive. He’s a high [...]
By Linda Tirado | Originally Published at Talk Poverty. May 28, 2015 | Photographic Credit; News That Matters There’s no point beating around this bush. An anti-poverty movement led by the middle and upper classes is doomed to failure. Equally, a partisan movement will never manage to [...]
Harriet Tubman or Rosa Parks may be the next face featured on the U.S. $20 bill—that is if WomenOn20s (W20), a grassroots organization committed to the realization of female representation on the nation’s currency, has anything to say about it. After a “robust” voting process spearheaded [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. February 24, 2015 Patricia Arquette’s Oscar acceptance speech imploring for wage equality was met with applause by her peers, including Meryl Streep. However, as The Frisky told you yesterday, her backstage interview — which was reasonably referred to [...]
The only real solution to reducing violence is reducing inequality. By Andy Thayer | Originally Published at In These Times. January 23, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Erin Nekervis / Flickr [ For decades, every Chicago mayoral election has featured calls more for hiring more cops. Emanuel and [...]
Poverty remains at record highs. Is that because welfare reform failed, or because it succeeded all too well? By Chris Rhomberg | Originally Published at In These Times. December 25, 2014 | Photograph; With poverty high and welfare all but gutted, soup kitchens are busy. (Spencer Platt/Getty [...]
Why are white cops shooting unarmed black men? On one level the story is simple: racism. Too many police officers fear people of color in the neighborhoods they patrol, and are likely to over-react with force during encounters. The local courts also engage in discrimination [...]
By Robert B. Reich | Originally Published at Robert B. Reich. October 13, 2014 | Photographic Credit; People are led on a tour group at the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Reich argues that by way of tax deductible contributions from wealthy donors, the federal [...]
