Tag: Minimum Wage

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Colorado workers are gathering at the Capitol at noon today, calling on the state legislature to ask Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Then the workers are heading a few blocks away to continue their rally at, appropriately, a McDonald's.

The Tea Party is a kindergartener. It was born five years ago. As ABC News puts it, it's an unhappy birthday.

Is there anyone out there who really believes that the reason Republicans oppose the minimum wage hike is because of lost jobs? Of course not.

The strange thing about the conservative objection to a minimum wage hike is that the hike is everything conservatives say they believe in.

And another 72,000 will lose benefits every month. At no time in the last 65 years have so many workers been without either a job or a government lifeline.

Colorado places among the top ten states in the nation when it comes to measuring the pace of income inequality growth over the past three and half decades. It's nothing to brag about.

Twenty years, give or take, in the fast-food business, and Shonda Roberts, who now works as a cashier for KFC, makes 8 bucks an hour. Why would she strike for higher wages?

According to a National Journal poll, Americans overwhelmingly (71 percent) want a hike in the minimum wage. What do you think Congress will do? OK, you know what Congress will do -- nothing.

The Air Force is running a program to recruit Academy cadets to inform on their classmates as a way to address drug abuse and sexual assault -- until the spies get caught. The Air Force then disavows them.