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'Stop Walmart Act': Sanders-Khanna Bill Would Ban Stock Buybacks for Corporate Giants That Don't Pay $15/Hour

'We Have Got to End Starvation Wages': Bernie Sanders to Re-Introduce $15 Minimum Wage Bill in First Week of New Congress

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Workers and their families cannot make it on $9 an hour or $10 an hour—or even less," the Vermont senator said in a statement

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Women's Rights Groups Vow to Fight Back After Trump Throws 'Bone to Anti-Choice Base' After Midterms

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Yesterday the American people overwhelmingly said healthcare was their number...

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'Fraud': After Billions in Taxpayer Subsidies Championed by Trump, Ryan, and Walker, Foxconn to Import Chinese Workers for Wisconsin Jobs

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Apparently, Scott Walker gave billions in subsidies to a Tawainese company, so...

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'We Vote, We Win!' Under Assault by Trump's GOP, Unions Lead Massive Get Out the Vote Effort for Midterms

Days Before Midterms, Trump's Top Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow Calls Minimum Wage Hike a 'Terrible Idea'

Google Walkout

#GoogleWalkout: Workers Worldwide Leave Their Desks to Demand End to Sexual Harassment and Inequity

'Despicable': Trump DOJ Argues to Supreme Court It's Not Discrimination to Fire Transgender People Just for Being Transgender

NYT Report Details 'Horrifying,' 'Appalling,' and 'Completely Legal' Pregnancy Discrimination in US

Less Than Year After GOP Tax Scam, Six Biggest Banks Already Raked in $9 Billion in Extra Profits

With Soaring Profits Going Straight to the Top, Disregarded Steel Workers Unanimously Approve Strike

After Pressuring Seattle to Forgo Corporate Tax to Fund Affordable Housing, Bezos Commits Fraction of $163B Fortune to Help Homeless

Which Side Is Donald Trump On? 'Not the Working Class. Just the Ruling Class'

As Nationwide Prison Strike Reaches Second Week, Inmates Accuse Officials of Retaliating With Solitary Confinement

As Trump Obscures Anti-Worker Record Ahead of Labor Day, Report Details His Actual Worker Agenda: 'Drop Dead'

'Absolutely Repulsive': After $1.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to Rich, Trump Cancels Modest Pay Raise for Federal Workers

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Economic Policy Institute

EPI Supports New Legislation Banning Mandatory Arbitration in Labor and Employment Matters

Senator Bernie Sanders

Warren, Sanders Criticize Amazon's Distribution of Anti-Union Video at Whole Foods...

Sierra Club

Westmoreland Files for Bankruptcy, Sierra Club Demands It Treat Workers with Respect, Meet Environmental Obligations

Fight for $15

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky Among 54 Arrested at McDonald’s HQ as Fast-Food Workers Nationwide Strike Demanding Union Rights

Patriotic Millionaires

Patriotic Millionaires on Bezos $15: "Shot Across the Bow to America's CEOs"...

SumofUs

Consumer Watchdog on Amazon’s New $15 Minimum Wage

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Michael Sainato

'They Obviously Can Afford to': Workers Call On Walmart To Raise Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour

Guy Standing

From Social Wealth Funds to Universal Basic Income, the Precariat Age Demands Far-Reaching Solutions to Dismantle Mass Inequality

Lauren Burke

Green New Deal? Bring It! But Don’t Forget Your Union Card.

David C. Fathi

Prisoners Are Getting Paid $1.45 a Day to Fight the California Wildfires

Marc Daalder

Why Every Democrat In Congress Should Support Bernie Sanders’ $15 Minimum Wage Bill

Chris Hedges

The Rats Revolt

Peter Dreier

The #MeToo Movement's Roots in Women Workers' Rights

Josh Hoxie

No One In The United States Should Be Poor, Period

Lawrence Wittner

What’s Happened to the Big Wage Increases Promised By Republicans?

Frank Clemente

Under Cover of Kavanaugh, Republicans Passed Huge Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

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