| Dec 2, 2013 | Food / FarmingThe fast food industry is notorious for handing out lean paychecks to their burger flippers and fat ones to their CEOs. What’s less well-known is that taxpayers are actually subsidizing fast food incomes at both the bottom — and top — of the industry. Take, for...
| Nov 27, 2013 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Marge Baker explains why Harry Reid took the “nuclear option,” Jim Hightower weighs in on the Canton, Ohio Walmart’s food drive for its own low-paid workers, and Tiffany Williams praises the new film Sunlight Jr. for its...
| | Rights / DemocracyI love movies, but they’re usually about people I have nothing in common with. The new film Sunlight Jr. starring Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon so accurately portrays the difficult yet mundane lives of a working poor family in Florida that I was struck with a mix...
| | Economy / BusinessWith the Friday the 13th December deadline for a federal budget deal, the cries of “we’re broke,” and “we can’t afford to keep spending,” are ringing again. But we’re not broke and acting like we are is making us poorer. One...
| | Rights / DemocracyWhat do you do when a faction of the U.S. Senate simply refuses to do a critical part of its job? That’s the dilemma that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid faced in mid-November when the Senate’s Republican minority tried once again to stall the work of...
