by MCDC | Jan 8, 2014 | Health Care, Minimum Wage, Sequester, Video
‘If Another Country Was Doing This To Our Kids, We’d Be At War.’ 50 Million Americans—1 in 4 children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from. A Place at the Table tells the powerful stories of three such Americans, who maintain their dignity even as they...
by MCDC | Jan 8, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Minimum Wage
By Susie Madrak House Republican leaders sent a memo this week to the entire GOP conference with talking points designed to help rank-and-file Republicans show compassion for the unemployed and explain the Republican position on unemployment benefits. In the memo,...
by MCDC | Jan 8, 2014 | Civil Rights, Employment, History, Minimum Wage, Sequester
BY IGOR VOLSKY It has been 50 years since Lyndon Johnson first declared that the nation could, “for the first time in our history,” conquer and win a war on poverty, pledging a “total commitment by this President, and this Congress, and this nation, to pursue victory...
by MCDC | Jan 4, 2014 | Employment, Ethics, Health Care, History, Issues, Minimum Wage, Sequester, Social Security, Video
extracts from Wikipedia and PoliticsUSA The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should...
by MCDC | Jan 2, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Minimum Wage, Video
a tip-of-the-hat to Frank Dixon Via Business Insider: “As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people...
