Labor

How Conservatives Who Block Minimum Wage Hikes are Destroying the Economy

By Marshall Auerback / AlterNet

Raising the minimum wage helps the real job creators: ordinary, hard-working Americans.

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Could You Live on $2.13 Per Hour -- Even With Tips? That's the Minimum Wage for Waiters

By Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

We Can Work Less, Make More Money and Save the Planet

By David Rosnick / AlterNet

How Our Machine-Based Way of Life is Not Only Destroying Nature, It Is Also Destroying Us

By Salvatore Folisi / Xander Stone Ink

Will Obama Stick Up for Labor in State of the Union Speech?

By Leo Gerard / AlterNet

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Labor

3 Reasons Even Right-Wing Republicans Should Like Unions

David Cohen / AlterNet

Coming Tuesday (Hopefully): The State of the Union's Economy

Robert B. Reich / Robert Reich's Blog

The Creepy, Intrusive Ways You're Being Spied on at Work

John Gilliom, Torin Monahan Monahan / University of Chicago Press

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What It's Going to Take to Claw Back Middle Class Wealth from the 1%

Les Leopold / AlterNet

How Shorter Work Hours and More Vacation Time Can Slow Global Warming

Alex Kane / AlterNet

14 Reasons to Repeal the Sequester Now

Richard (RJ) Eskow / Blog for Our Future

Fracking 'Boom Towns' Rife with Workplace Accidents

Kari Lydersen / In These Times

Obsolete Humans? Why Elites Want You to Fear the Robot

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

A Ground-Eye View of the 'Valley of Deportation'

Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix / New America Media

Exposed: How Whole Foods and the Biggest Organic Foods Distributor Are Screwing Workers

Ronnie Cummins, Dave Murphy / AlterNet

4 Ways the Austerity Obsession in Washington Could Cost You Your Job

Robert Borosage / Campaign for America's Future

Do You Ignore Homeless People?

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

America Is Turning Into One Big Prison for People in Debt

Steve Fraser / TomDispatch

One-Percent Justice: The Right's War on Labor and Consumers Takes an Ugly Turn

Harold Meyerson / The American Prospect

Listen Up, Foodies! Saru Jayaraman Thinks You Should Care as Much About Restaurant Workers as You Do Your Organic Chicken

Amy Dean / Truthout

New Activists Fight for the Life of the American Worker

Michael Paarlberg / Comment Is Free

How America's Outrageous Income Inequality Is Literally Killing Us

Phillip Longman / The Washington Monthly

FreedomWorks Putting Its War Chest to Work for ALEC’s Union-Busting Agenda in the States

Brendan Fischer / PR Watch

Walmart, Like Lance Armstrong, Seeks Redemption Without Remorse

Leo Gerard / AlterNet

Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Radical, Not a Saint

Peter Drier / AlterNet

Searching For a Place to Sleep

Kenan Heise / Marion Street Press

Dumpster Diving in the Great Recession: 'I Did It Because I Was Hungry" (Hard Times, USA)

Kenan Heise / Marion Street Press

Journalists in the Service of the Peterson Corporate Agenda

Kevin C. Brown / Remapping Debate

Does Lena Dunham Prove Writers Are as Toxic as Investment Bankers?

Keli Goff / The Huffington Post

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