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Here's How Long It Would Take You To Earn A Top CEO Salary

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 mill...

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Dave Jamieson

Biz Leaders To GOP: Minimum Wage Raise Is 'Past Due'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.24.2012

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As lawmakers in Albany, N.Y., contemplate a boost to the state's minimum wage, a group of business leaders came out Thursday in support of hiking the ...

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Blocking Labor Department Wage Rule Condemns Young Americans to Unemployment

Ross Eisenbrey | Posted 05.23.2012

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Ross Eisenbrey

It is time for Congress to permit a true test of the labor market, a real opportunity for more U.S. workers to hear about and consider taking seafood-processing jobs like crab picking.

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New Poll Reveals Big Support For Minimum Wage Hike

Posted 05.14.2012

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A new poll conducted by Siena College is revealing big wins for Democrats with more than three-quarters of New Yorkers supporting a minimum wage hike ...

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New York's Families Need Minimum Wage Increase

Gordon Campbell | Posted 05.11.2012

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Gordon Campbell

The Occupy Wall Street movement has drawn the nation's attention to these economic issues, starting a necessary dialogue, but we need legislative action to help those toiling away for next to nothing.

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Where Are You Taking Your Mom to Eat This Mothers' Day?

Saru Jayaraman | Posted 05.11.2012

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Saru Jayaraman

This Mother's Day, wherever you take your mom, ask the manager at the end of the meal about the hourly wage of servers and bussers in the restaurant before tips, and whether they provide paid sick days.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy

Minimum Wage Hike Takes Big Step Closer To Missouri Ballot

HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 05.09.2012

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Backers of an effort to raise Missouri's minimum wage said Monday that they have submitted enough signatures to put the measure on the November ballot...

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Amanda Terkel

Watch: GOP Senate Candidate Can't Name Minimum Wage

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Rick Berg (R-N.D.), who is running for the state's open U.S. Senate seat, was caught off guard when approached by a voter who wante...

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The Fight for a Minimum Wage Increase in New York State

Ruben Diaz Jr. | Posted 05.04.2012

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Ruben Diaz Jr.

Once, New York's minimum wage was a national leader, now our state must not fall behind and continue at the forefront of progressive policy initiatives. It's time to rebalance the scales. It's time for New York to raise the minimum wage.

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Hold Onto That Paycheck! ALEC "Sharpens Focus on Jobs"

Mary Bottari | Posted 04.19.2012

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Mary Bottari

ALEC and the corporations funding ALEC's operations would like to turn back the clock to those good old days when there were no unions and no minimum wage. They must not be allowed to succeed.

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Commentary On Minimum Wage For Home Care Workers

Rita Zeidner | Posted 04.17.2012

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Rita Zeidner

As the nation focuses on health reform, a debate over the pay of workers providing in-home care to the elderly and sick brews below the surface.

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Is Mitt Romney a Commoner?

Jay Walljasper | Posted 04.16.2012

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Jay Walljasper

Volunteers working largely outside the realm of government -- neighborhood organizations, fire brigades, blood banks and other civic initiatives -- are obvious examples of commons-based sharing and caring.

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Free Agents: Will Micro-Labor Shrink Workplace Rights?

Michelle Chen | Posted 04.13.2012

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Michelle Chen

Although a fair day's pay for a fair day's work isn't an outdated concept yet, the emerging online market for manpower appears more aimed at pumping up quantity, rather than quality, of jobs in the precarious new economy.

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What Sense of Entitlement?

Dan Bimrose | Posted 04.12.2012

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Dan Bimrose

The apparent Republican goal to lower our worker's wage rates and benefits to a point where we are competitive with China's wage rates should not be what we strive for. This is America. We should use innovation to create new industries and new markets.

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The Minimum Wage Is Not a Living Wage

Thom Hartmann | Posted 04.04.2012

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Thom Hartmann

Economies grow when working people have money in their pockets -- not when the super-rich are given trillions of dollars in tax cuts and are expected to trickle that money down to the rest of us. It's time to put in place a real living wage that a family can actually live on.

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The Truth About $2.13

Saru Jayaraman | Posted 04.03.2012

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Saru Jayaraman

The one irrefutable fact which restaurant lobbyists seem intent on ignoring is that in the eight states, including California, which do not have tipped penalties on restaurant workers, the restaurant industry is thriving.

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Dave Jamieson

Dem Calls For Higher Minimum Wage, Paid Sick Days For All

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Legislation introduced by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) on Thursday included a litany of measures aimed at boosting income for low-wage worke...

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Amanda Terkel

Missouri Republican Senate Candidates Don't Know Federal Minimum Wage

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. But none of the three Republicans running in Missouri's U.S. Senate primary knew that fact wh...

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Romney, Santorum and GOP Snobs: The Rise of America's Plutocratic 1%

Edward Wyckoff Williams | Posted 05.12.2012

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Edward Wyckoff Williams

The nation has entered a twilight zone where 'elite' and 'elitism' only have subjective meaning. It's an alternate universe in which Mitt Romney can admit he's "not concerned about the very poor" and his wife can claim she doesn't consider herself "wealthy." All this during a time of record unemployment.

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Dave Jamieson

Romney Walks Back Controversial Wage Comments

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Back in January, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was asked at a campaign event in New Hampshire whether he supported the idea of ra...

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Romney Finds Republican Religion on the Minimum Wage

Richard Kirsch | Posted 05.07.2012

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Richard Kirsch

As Mitt Romney knows, it's easy to go after the very poor. But there is overwhelming support for people who are working hard and still barely able to feed their families. Even if people make above the minimum wage, they still feel the economic crush of stagnant wages, disappearing benefits and job insecurity.

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Raising the Minimum Wage: A Win-Win for New Jersey

Deborah Howlett | Posted 05.05.2012

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Deborah Howlett

Can you imagine trying to pay the bills and save for the future on $15,080 a year? That's all a minimum wage job in New Jersey brings in. The plain truth is that a minimum wage increase would benefit all of us, without harming business.

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Dave Jamieson

Mitt Romney Serves RIck Santorum Up As Pro-Union

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In his attempts to tar former Sen. Rick Santorum as fiscally irresponsible, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has been knocking his o...

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Why I'm Hunger Striking at UVA

Joseph Williams | Posted 04.25.2012

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Joseph Williams

In failing to implement a living wage for its lowest paid employees, the University of Virginia has also failed to uphold the moral standards to which it holds its students.

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Dave Jamieson

Arizona GOP Leader: Let Kids Work For $4.65 An Hour

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Republican lawmakers in Arizona are pushing legislation that would lower the legal minimum wage for younger part-time workers and tipped...

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