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The Trump administration is getting ready to give working Americans a big pay cut.
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Amy Traub
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A higher minimum wage was ranked as a top priority for working-class black and Latino voters, as well as white working-class Obama-to-Trump voters.
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Sean McElwee
August 2, 2017 (New York, NY) – In response to reports today that the U.S. Department of Justice plans to investigate higher education institutions’ affirmative action policies, Heather McGhee, President of Demos and Demos Action, issued the following statement.
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The top three economic issues for young people are debt-free public college, paid family and medical leave and a higher minimum wage (followed closely by affordable childcare).
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Sean McElwee
In almost every Nissan auto plant across the world, workers are represented by a union. One exception is the facility in Canton, Mississippi.
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Amy Traub
In a recent study, I compared the damage from shoplifting with that from just one form of wage theft, the failure to pay workers the legal hourly minimum.
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Amy Traub
The nation is experiencing a crisis of care. Across the country, parents are trapped in an economic bind without paid leave or affordable child care, even as older Americans and people with disabilities contend with their own unmet needs for care. At the same time, we face a desperate need for good
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Amy Traub
Underlying much of the conversation about basic income is an effort to respond to the changing structure of the economy and the labor market.
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Connie M. Razza
Despite important advances with ballot initiatives and the rise of the powerful Fight for $15 movement, there is still progress to be made on raising the minimum wage.
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Sean McElwee
From the chambers of the House Financial Services Committee, we hear that consumers are losing “ econom
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Amy Traub