The Race to the Bottom

The Race to the Bottom

Labor had Its happy day; Now that time Has flown away. Is the love of money the root of all evil? OK, so Jesus may have played down bigotry and megalomania when he said that, but overall his observation holds true 2,000 years later. Labor relations are a contemporary...
Fix the Minimum Wage

Fix the Minimum Wage

In most states, working full-time in a minimum-wage job pays $7.25 per hour. That’s just $15,000 a year for full-time work. It’s not enough to live on. In fact, a breadwinner for a family of four earning the minimum wage would be a full $7,000 below the...
The 64-Gazillion-Dollar Question

The 64-Gazillion-Dollar Question

Peter Edelman has battled poverty for nearly half a century — first as a top aide to Senator Robert Kennedy, later as a state and federal official, and currently as a key figure at a widely respected law and public policy center in Washington. Over his years in...