REPORT: Joblessness Means Wage Hikes Don’t Help The Poor
By Connor D. Wolf Raising the minimum wage actually does little to address poverty since most poor people are unemployed, a report published Thursday concluded....
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Improved Economy Means 500k Could Lose Food Stamps
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By Geoffrey Ingersoll Hundreds of thousands of food stamp recipients are expected to lose their benefits in April as work requirements steadily go back into effect...
Improved Economy Means 500k Could Lose Food Stamps
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Connor D. Wolf Hundreds of thousands of food stamp recipients are expected to lose their benefits in April with work requirements going back into...
Scott Walker’s Right-To-Work Law Overturned By Wisconsin Judge
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Blake Neff Wisconsin’s new right-to-work law, one of the signature achievements of Gov. Scott Walker, has been thrown out by a state judge who...
O’Malley: Only Humans Suffer from Unemployment
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Martin O’Malley is taking the Bernie Sanders approach to getting headlines: say ridiculously stupid things. O’Malley astutely observed that animals don’t have employment problems. Of...
Minimum Wage Advocates Arrested At Boston Airport
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Connor D. Wolf Six minimum wage advocates were arrested Monday during a rally at Logan International Airport in Boston for refusing to comply with state...
Determined Woman Completes College Exam While in Labor
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When Middle Georgia State University told Tommitrise Collins she had one day only to take her exam, the woman didn’t let anything get in her way....
Infant dead after mother forced to give birth in solitary confinement
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WICHITA COUNTY, TX– Another casualty in the senseless drug war has been reported in Texas. Nicole Guerrero was arrested on a drug possession charge back...