Tag: working poor

Sen. Bernie Sanders stood up for the American public again, Thursday, during a Joint Economic Committee hearing gathered to discuss income inequality. Setting a...

What killed Red Lobster? Something did because, according to LZ Granderson at CNN, Darden reported a 37.6% drop in earnings per share?in the first quarter...

Roughly 1.3 million people will be losing their unemployment benefits today, with many more to come if Congress does not vote to extend the...

Minimum wage rates will increase in 13 states and five cities next week, providing pay raises to almost 1 million workers. Ten of the 13...

This month in November, a forty billion dollar cut in the agricultural bill for food stamps occurred, causing millions of families across the nation...

If corporations are people, I submit to you they are cruel and rude people. Exhibit A is the McDonald's McResources website. It is supposed...

  Image courtesy of Yodale LiberalAmerica.org has already covered the excitement generated in the 5th Congressional District down in the great State of Louisiana, where a special...

A Canton, Ohio Wal-Mart has put up food containers for Wal-Mart associates to donate food for other associates in need during the Thanksgiving holiday....

Hungry? Broke? Tough luck, nobody cares. That's about the long and short of it one would think. Yesterday's $5 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition...

Healthy mom-healthy baby. That's a common public health slogan, so when states like Ohio have a chance to expand Medicaid to an additional 300,000...

There are 48 million Americans who are food insecure, which means that they don't always know where they will get their next meal. While...

Michigan is the 24th state to approve the Medicaid expansion. What's taking the other 26 so long?

Half of an increase from the current federal minimum of $7.25 to $10.50 an hour could be paid for, for McDonalds workers, by increasing the price of a Big Mac by just five cents.

Ever since the Citizens United decision, the over-taxed and over-regulated Koch Brothers have spent endless?millions promoting every?Libertarian cause, from?suppressing?working poor and minority voting rights,...

Flipping burgers is not what most people dream of doing as a career choice, but reality dictates when times are tough, you have to...

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The latest nationwide frenzy over Powerball is now, mercifully, over, after the winning ticket was apparently sold by a?Florida supermarket. The jackpot is estimated...

Many of us were probably shocked when we heard about the horrific and deadly fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh. Over 750 people...