If the lines had continued to track closely together as they did prior to the 1970s, the minimum wage would be more than $19 an hour.
Tara L. Conley | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
I can't help but wonder how Obama's power as President will address the myriad of low wage-(or no wage)-earning, care-taking, health-insurance-lacking, poverty-stricken women of color in the US.
Graydon Gordian | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
As an Obama staffer in Michigan, reasonably often I found myself saying, "Which would be worse: losing your job or having a black president?"
James Rotondi | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
Maybe I'm just a sucker, or perhaps some misplaced machismo makes me want to defend damsels in distress. but watching Sarah Palin tear up, I actually felt a twinge of sympathy.
Susan Madrak | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
Elections aren't about intellect. They're about emotion. That's why people so often vote against their own interests.
Gihan Perera | Posted 10.21.2008 | Business
Low-income communities were the canaries in the coal mine.
Jane Devin | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home
Poverty carries an emotional and stigmatizing price. It's losing teeth at a young age because a $600 root canal or 50% co-pay is unaffordable. It's not being able to afford to pay a $50 fine for a traffic violation, and ending up in jail.
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
KITTANNING, Pa. — The steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation's economic engine. Today, old factory shells and...
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
McCain made an agreement to show up at this debate, and he can't even honor that.
Diane Tucker | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home
Any sort of cash incentive to get manufacturers to build more efficient vehicles -- and to get people to buy more of them -- is an admirable thing. But let's not forget that if people just make smarter choices, this nation's energy usage will go down dramatically.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
The Employee Free Choice Act is a vital piece of legislation that, if passed, will go a long way toward restoring the middle class in our country.
David Sirota | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
What Democrats are really asserting is that they believe Americans see factory, small-business, and agriculture jobs as merely a means to a white-collar professional ends.
Joan Williams | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics
Once you understand that class is cultural, you can see why the culture wars are a perfect medium for class conflict in a society where open acknowledgment of class is taboo.
Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
Race, Buchanan would argue, is nearly irrelevant as an issue in this election when it concerns the white working class vote. How convenient!
Jackie Hammond | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home
"If this cultural group could get around the table with Black America, you would see populist American politics change forever. These two groups want the very same things from government."
Christopher Fedor | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics
I had one thing on my mind when I went to vote in the Pennsylvania Primary: Who can beat McCain more easily...The answer is Clinton!
Ali Eteraz | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
I am a low income Muslim. I'm tired of the label "working class" being used as a code word for being the lowliest kind of human. Then if you resist this smear, you're an elitist.
Peter Smith | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media
A lot of inside the beltway talking heads have claimed a special understanding of working class voters lately. I would submit that if, as a journalist, you have to explain your working class bona fides, then you probably don't have them.
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
After days of near universal agreement that Obama's "bitter" comment was going to absolutely crush him, it turns out that most people in small towns don't care, and if anything, they kind of agree.
Chip Collis | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
Two of the three presidential candidates are running a major con job on you right now: It's in their attacks on Obama. He was right about economically disadvantaged and politically sidetracked Pennsylvanians.
David Paul Kuhn | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
Reagan, as well as FDR and JFK understood that symbols, narratives, and sets win presidencies. Should Obama not, it will lead to a Dukakis-like moment that could serve as his tattooed slip up.
Ari Melber | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
Polls have been wrong about most things this cycle. But voter turnout shows that Clinton is holding onto poor and working class voters. And the Democratic nominee needs their support to win.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics
Like America, Kenya is a country run by rich men, who use tribal differences to first divide their poor people, and them unite them behind false promises of bettering their lives if they vote for change.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
We're all workers, anchored beneath the caste of generationally transfixed wealth. We're not Rockefellers. We're not Astors. We're not wealthy.
Susan Madrak | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics
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