Working Class

The Romney Hypocrisy: Bain, Job Creation Fallacies and the Working-Class White Vote

Edward Wyckoff Williams | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Think Progress, Working-Class, Job Creation, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Bain Capital, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Fox News, Jobs, Newt Gingrich, African Americans, Recession, Barack Obama, White Voters, Bv-Politics, Video, Black Voices News

Perhaps Mitt Romney insists on making the 2012 campaign a referendum on President Obama's record, in an effort to ignore his own. The stark contrast between Barack's legacy and Mitt's lies could not be more apparent.

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May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy Movement

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Workers, May Day, May 1, Class Warfare, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Corporations, American Federation of Labor, Eight-Hour Day, Labor Unions, Unions, Occupy Movement, May Day Protests, Working Class, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, May Day History, Culture News

Many people might be surprised to learn that the May Day celebrations that occurred around the world in 2012 were born more than a century ago out of a struggle by American workers for the eight-hour day.

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A Major Career Woman? Rethinking Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

Sarah Damaske | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Working Women, Paycheck Fairness Act, Working Class, Middle Class, Women in the Workforce, Take Your Daughter to Work Day, Gender Wage Gap, Business News

If we want Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day to benefit all of our children, additional focus must be placed on girls growing up in working-class families. These girls are the ones who might benefit most.

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Poor Americans More And More Likely To Stay That Way

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: The Poor, Video, Economic Opportunity, Poverty, Income Inequality, Low-Income, Middle Class, Financial Mobility, Class Mobility, Low Income Families, Class, Economic Mobility, Working Class, Business News

It's getting harder for poor Americans to lift themselves up. Don't believe it? The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has some pretty compelling evide...

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Draft Hillary for 2016 Bid

Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.19.2012

Re-elect Barack Obama in 2012 and draft Hillary Clinton for 2016 to achieve an era of reform and realignment that will powerfully change history.

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Is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie the One Being Groomed for 2016?

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Medicare Cuts, Bill Clinton, Primaries, Republican Primary, President Bill Clinton, Chris Christie, Social Security, President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney 2012, Gop 2012, George W. Bush, Gov. Mitt Romney, Gop Primary 2012, Hoover Institute, Paul Ryan Medicare, Gov. Chris Christie, Stanford University, Working Class, Politics News

Hmm, if the GOP intelligentsia keeps ruminating on Christie we may see more of this new, improved, thoughtful Chris Christie making the rounds before 2016.

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Does Labor Have Any Real Friends?

David Macaray | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Labor Movement, Organized Labor, Union Labor, Labor Unions, Unions, Working Class, Politics News

When it comes to the down-and-dirty battles necessary to get the job done, working people realize that no one can be relied upon except other working people, and the unions that represent them.

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Reporter Experiences Harrowing Ordeal As Employee Of Online Shipping Warehouse

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Eat the Press, Blue Collar Workers, Online Shipping Warehouse, Poverty, Warehouses, Economy, Amazon Wearhouse, Jobs, Warehouse-Workers, Working Class, Outsourcing, Mac McClelland, Labor, Temp-Workers, Unemployment, Temp Work, Mac Mcclelland Mother Jones, Business News, Media News

Mother Jones reporter and official recipient of the Order Of The Eat The Press Empire knighthood Mac McClelland followed up on the visit she made last...

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PHOTOS: Photographer Russell Marshall Is Documenting Detroit's Working Class

Randy Fox | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Photography, Detroit, Randy Fox, Travel, Rusell Marshall: Documenting Detroit's Working Class; Russell Marshall, Rust Belt, Factory Belt, Michigan, Working Class, American Elegy, Exposure, Travel News

Detroit and its history can't help but be a permanent and major part of the Rust Belt's rise and fall. Photographer Russell Marshall has lived through the good times in Detroit, as well as its industrial decline.

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Thomas Friedman Declares An End To Math, Urges Working Class To Get Awesome!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Eat the Press, New York Times Foxconn, Thomas Friedman, Apple, Apple Ipad, Thomas Friedman New York Times, Foxconn Suicides, New York Times Apple, Foxconn, Media Criticism, Manufacturing, Working Class, Manufacturing Jobs, Media News

As Friedman bops from one global aerie to the next, absorbing the latest sweet whispers from the mesmeric elites he encounters, there's never a reason to end the pep rally. Everything just looks amazing once you're ahead of the curve.

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The Politics of the White Working Class in the 2012 Election

Robert P. Jones, Ph.D. | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Taxes, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, White Working Class Voters, Working Class, New Hampshire, Politics News

In New Hampshire, Rick Santorum is attempting to move beyond his familiar identity as the social conservative's dream candidate, by emphasizing a carefully calibrated conservative version of economic populism.

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Foreign Company Uses Cheap U.S. Labor As Reason To Lower Wages

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: India, U.S. Economy, Income Inequality, Wages, Middle Class, Manufacturing, Globalization, Wage Stagnation, Cheap Labor, Labor Unions, Canada, Working Class, Outsourcing, Labor, Minimum Wage, Ikea, Unemployment, Video, Business News

The near-standstill in wage growth for American workers hasn't just been good for their employers. It's turning out to be a potential bargaining chip ...

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The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Blue Collar Workers, Holidays, Walmart, U.S. Economy, Hershey, Poverty, Warehouses, Economy, Jobs, Target, Retail, Labor Unions, Home Depot, Warehouse-Workers, Working Class, Outsourcing, Video, Labor, Temp-Workers, Costco, Temp Work, Retail Sales, Christmas, Slidepollajax, Unions, Business News

JOLIET, Ill., and FONTANA, Calif. -- Like nearly everyone else in Joliet without good job prospects, Uylonda Dickerson eventually found herself at the...

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Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You

Steve Fraser | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Arab Spring, 99ers, Unemployment, Great Recession, Labor Laws, Labor History, 99ers Unemployment, Jobs, Knights of Labor, Unions, Great Depression, Working Class, Politics News

We have a choice: Americans can continue to accept large-scale unemployment as "natural" and permanent. Or we can follow the lead of the jobless young in the Arab Spring and of protestors beginning to demonstrate en masse in Europe.

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Many Americans Born Into Middle Class End Up Falling Out Of It

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Drug Use, Education, Downward Mobility, Middle Class Economy, Divorce, Third World America, Blacks, Economy, Middle Class, Low Income, Economic Mobility, Income, Working Class, Video, Business News

The promise of the American dream has given many hope that they themselves could one day rise up the economic ladder. But according to a study release...

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We Do the Work

David Macaray | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Labor, Factory Workers, Workers, Laborers, Industrial Workers, Working Class, Business News

While it's the workers who keep the operation running smoothly, it's management who gets the credit. It's management who gets the credit, the glory, the promotions, and, ultimately, the compensation.

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Where 30 Years of Real Class Warfare Has Left America

Larry Womack | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Taxes, Poverty, Income Inequality, Economy, Barack Obama, Wealth Gap, Working Class, Bush Tax Cuts, Working Poor, Education, Poor, Tea Party, Health Care, Third World America, Business News

After this recession, as most of the poor continue to linger in poverty, we won't be collecting any of the revenue that they could be generating. And when another recession hits and our expenditures skyrocket again, we'll cut programs for the poor and taxes for the rich again. And again. And again.

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The Debt Ceiling "Compromise" Is a Total Democratic Capitulation to the GOP

Mitchell Bard | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Buyer's Remorse, Debt, House of Representatives, Congress, Debt Ceiling, Budget Cuts, John Boehner, Economy, Deficits, Wealth Disparity, Middle Class, Two Party System, Dianne Feinstein, Liberal, Democrats, Barack Obama, Working Class, Bush Tax Cuts, Senate, Unemployment, Default, Harry Reid, Paul Krugman, Wisconsin Recall Elections, Carl Levin, Tea Party, Republicans, Politics News

We will look back and know that when the debt ceiling issue was in play, the Republicans made their case, but nobody in a position of power made the opposing argument. The Democrats just went along and will have to live with the consequences, along with the rest of us.

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Debt Ceiling Debate or War on the Working Class?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Federal Budget Deficit, Working Class, Politics News

The debt ceiling debacle isn't about debt any more than all the talk about balancing the budget is about the deficit. There is absolutely no need to b...

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Colbert: Men & Woman Finally Equally Powerless

Posted 08.29.2011

Stephen Colbert hailed an unfortunate "win" for equality on Tuesday night's show when he announced that the Supreme Court ruling in the Wal-Mart sexua...

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Supreme Court's Walmart Ruling Undermines Labor Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Walmart, Shenzhen, Labor, Income Inequality, Antonin Scalia, Detroit, Mexico, Gated Communities, Wal-Mart, Working Class, China Price, Business News

The appalling Walmart decision handed down by the Court this week will serve as a brilliant symbol of how the United States has essentially become a giant gated community enjoyed by the powerful, with most of the citizenry living outside and struggling to nourish themselves.

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The Changing Class Divisions That Tear at Low-Income Families

June Carbone | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Jobs, Marriage, Education, Unemployment, Working Class, Middle Class, Family, Newlywed, Newlyweds Happiness, Duel Income Families, Women News

A new study of newlyweds found that increases in workloads were associated with increases in marital satisfaction for both men and women.

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Oh, Please. There Is No Conspiracy Against the Poor and Middle Class in America.

James Napoli | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Working Poor, Charlie Sheen, Linkedin, Jobless Rate, Trickle Down, Social Networking, Corporations, Middle Class, Twitter, Economic Inequality, Corporate Taxes, Facebook, Health Care, Working Class, Comedy News

I wish liberals would get off their high horses and let go of their quaint little idea that there is some sort of conspiracy against the working class. There is no conspiracy. We are getting reamed in a very public way.

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When Unions are Strong, Americans Enjoy the Fruits of Their Labor

David Morris | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Strike, Wisconsin, Labor, Workers, Lepage, Governor Walker, Taft Hartley, Frances Perkins, Unions, Inequality, Working Class, Productivity, Politics News

n the last generation, US unions have shrunk in size and influence, largely as a result of a withering attack by corporations and Republicans.

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How Democrats Lost Their Base -- And Why Identity Is Key to Winning It Back

Spencer Critchley | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Labor, Technocrats, Democratic Base, 1960's, Liberals, Identity Politics, Interest Groups, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Working Class, Politics News

Most Democrats have trouble stating clearly what they stand for.That's a very big problem, because it turns out that in politics, identity trumps both interests and ideas.

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