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Measuring Wal-Mart’s Honest Graft
(Editor’s Note: A slightly longer version of this post originally appeared in Dissent.) Last month Wal-Mart became the latest company to drop its membership in the American Legislative Exchange...
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Social Security Is 77 Years Old and Still a Hot-Button Topic
FDR signing the Social Security Act of 1935. (Note: This 2010 L.A. Times op-ed appeared on the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act. Today is that landmark legislation’s 77th...
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Fields of Fire: Bill Provides Water, Shade to Farm Workers
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2012 has been the hottest year on record — ever. Millions of Americans suffered through the sweltering heat this summer, many in...
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Obama Reboot: A Second Term Transformation?
Despite President Obama’s important, even landmark, accomplishments, by the time November 6 arrived, many Americans were disappointed with his first term. They expected him to be a “transformational”...
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Raising the Minimum Wage for the Most Good
(The New Yorker) Business groups and their political allies have consistently attacked the idea of a minimum wage ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed it during the Depression to help...
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Remembering the Triangle Fire’s Lessons
Tuesday is the 103rd anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a major turning point in American labor history. On March 25, 1911, 146 garment workers, most of them Jewish and Italian...
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Corporations See End Times in NLRB Poster
Photo: Lewis Hine, 1908 Earlier this month, 36 House Republicans filed an amicus court brief to support corporate America’s war on workers’ rights. They are embracing a suit filed by the Chamber of...
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Opens His Wallet. Sort of.
(Jamie Dimon photo by Steve Jurvetson) Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, announced in a New York Times op-ed column on Tuesday that the bank would soon raise wages for its lowest-paid employees....
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