by MCDC | Dec 14, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Income Inequality, Issues
A couple of years ago, the city of Chicago started a summer jobs program for teenagers attending high schools in some of the city’s high-crime, low-income neighborhoods. The program was meant, of course, to connect students to work. But officials also hoped that...
by MCDC | May 16, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage
Even though French economist Thomas Piketty has made an air-tight case that we’re heading toward levels of inequality not seen since the days of the nineteenth-century robber barons, right-wing conservatives haven’t stopped lying about what’s happening and what to do...
by MCDC | May 15, 2014 | Economy, Employment, History, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage
This country’s fate was sealed when our government slashed taxes on the rich back in 1980 By Thom Hartmann, Alternet There’s nothing “normal” about having a middle class. Having a middle class is a choice that a society has to make, and it’s a choice we need to...
by MCDC | Mar 13, 2014 | Civil Rights, Economy, Education, Employment, Ethics, Income Inequality, Racism
Adapted from an article by DAVID SIROTA Code words are politicians’ stock in trade. As Republican strategist Lee Atwater famously admitted, that’s especially true when it comes to racially coded rhetoric about economics. Terms like “welfare queen” are obvious...
by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage
By Alan Pyke Nearly six in 10 small business owners support raising the minimum wage to $10.10, according to a new poll on behalf of Small Business Majority (SBM), with most respondents citing the prospect of increased consumer demand and improved competitiveness with...
