Bloomberg's Legacy Is at Risk -- Here's How He Can Save It
Even during the boom, many New Yorkers saw their wages stagnate while housing prices escalated. Under Bloomberg, New York saw extraordinary growth, but it was far from equitable.
Even during the boom, many New Yorkers saw their wages stagnate while housing prices escalated. Under Bloomberg, New York saw extraordinary growth, but it was far from equitable.
nytimes.com | MICHAEL LUO | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
C.R. England, a nationwide trucking company, needed an administrative assistant for its bustling driver training school here. Responsibilities include...
Harry Moroz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Despite the overblown criticism of the latest stimulus jobs numbers, job creation is lagging in the United States and the economy is clearly not working for the majority of American middle-class households.
Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver
As the consumer pricing index continues to fall, the State of Colorado will become the first state since 1938 to lower it's minimum wage. From the ...
Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business
Employers who think they can avoid payroll tax and employee benefits by mischaracterizing independent contractors may be in for a surprise. The IRS, Labor Department, and even local state governments may disagree and the consequences can be severe.
Tom H. Hastings | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Americans are on Full Oxymoron Alert these days, as we read and hear about this "jobless recovery." Recovery for whom?
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
It's not primarily Senator Kennedy's words that make him one of the great defenders of modern liberalism. His life itself is living proof of the central liberal idea that government can help make people's lives better.
Deborah Weinstein | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Kennedy's career was marked by a decades-long commitment to help those with the least political power - the poor, children, immigrants, and the uninsured.
AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 09.19.2009 | Home
DENVER — Colorado's lowest-paid workers could make even less money next year. That's because the state has an adjustable minimum wage that may b...
Robert Naiman | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
By its failure to help restore Honduran President Zelaya, the Obama Administration is helping to drive down the minimum wage in Honduras, Haiti, and throughout the world.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
There's a simple solution to these Republican astro-turf goon squads that are currently disrupting Democratic town hall meetings on health care. Do what Kennedy did.
Rep. George Miller | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Unlike tax cuts for the wealthy, a higher minimum wage increases consumer spending on local businesses, which is good for everyone.
AP | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business
ATLANTA - A federal minimum wage increase that takes effect Friday could prolong the recession, some economists say, by forcing small businesses to l...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business
This week the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar's lot really, but still corporations across America decried it.
McClatchy | Tony Pugh | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- The final installment of a three-part increase in the federal minimum wage is proving to be the most controversial. Two previous wage...
Stephen Herrington | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics
The unsung dirge of this health care nightmare is that health care increased in pricing even while their customers paychecks did not increase. And that is the real issue.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business
In the economy we've inherited from the last three decades of deregulation and declining union density, people of color are increasingly relegated to low-wage, precarious work that pays too little to support a family.
Reuters | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A higher U.S. minimum wage is providing a cushion to the economy when it is most needed, according to a report released on Thursd...
Justin Callaway | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
I used to joke helplessly that I'd be better off working for less in a menial retail job with good benefits once you weigh my hourly rate with the high out-of-pocket cost of my lack of benefits.
Howie Klein | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
One of our eager beaver legislators has a solution to all these little mishaps of Bush's Republican Economic Miracle: crank up the war on working American families.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
In 2005, California Congresswoman Hilda Solis contributed $15,000 of her own campaign money to fund a successful movement to raise the minimum wage in California.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
If the lines had continued to track closely together as they did prior to the 1970s, the minimum wage would be more than $19 an hour.
Judy Patrick and Surina Khan | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
Already disadvantaged by years of workplace and legislative failures, women and their families face an increasingly insecure future if policies are not adjusted to meet our ever more pressing needs.
Eleanor Smeal | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
Women, Senator McCain, vote on issues important to us, not on whether or not the candidate wears a skirt. The truth is, your candidacy is the worst for women in recent history.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business
In Keynesian terms Dubya's fiscal and monetary policies had the heat running round the clock during a hot summer, inviting the dizzying loss of values in this credit-frozen October.
John Petro | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York