It’s Time to Make Sure Nobody is Paid Less Than the Minimum Wage
Eighty years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt called for a national floor on wages to ensure “a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.” As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act, a core part of the New Deal, the federal minimum wage falls far short of that goal.
Block grants would be a disaster. Here’s how we know.
Republicans are advancing yet another effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act that is as bad as the one defeated in July, if not worse. This one makes large use of block grants, a long-standing Republican idea to promote “state flexibility.”
Budget Cuts Would Leave Many Americans Hungry
Their bellies were swollen and their fragile limbs covered with sores that would not heal. Clothed in rags, these children of the Mississippi Delta huddled in crumbling shacks with empty iceboxes, not a morsel of food to be found. It was a level of human suffering and despair that brought a New York Senator to tears. Walking, stunned, from one hovel to the next, Senator Robert F. Kennedy saw conditions that rivaled what he’d seen in third-world countries.
Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality Congressional Briefing
Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality Congressional Briefing The Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, Senate HELP, and the Senate Finance Minority, hosted a conversation about early-in-life disparities in the United States and ideas for...Latest Tweets
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