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WASHINGTON — In a speech Tuesday commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act, Vice President Joe Biden mocked conservatives who’ve warned of dire economic consequences if Democrats manage to pass an increase to the minimum wage. Flanked by a group of minimum-wage earners, Biden told a crowd at the White House that […]

Nader Says President Obama Should Be Ashamed that Federal Government, Through its Outsourced Corporate Contractors, is the Largest Single Employer of Low-Wage Workers in the United States For more information contact: Ralph Nader or Jeff Musto 202-387-8030 [email protected] June 25, 2013 On the 75th anniversary of the first lasting federal minimum wage law, the Fair […]

By Brandon Weber If you add up the totals in these charts, 75% of minimum wage earners are adults. Let that sink in for a minute. 70% have at least a high school degree, and some have had at least a year or two of college. Take a look at the size of the big blue […]

By Peter Dreier and Donald Cohen       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 stimulate the economy. And today — the 75th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which FDR […]

One of the nation’s best-known charities is paying disabled workers as little as 22 cents an hour, thanks to a 75-year-old legal loophole that critics say needs to be closed. Goodwill Industries, a multibillion-dollar company whose executives make six-figure salaries, is among the nonprofit groups permitted to pay thousands of disabled workers far less than […]

By Felix Salmon Nick Hanauer has a good idea today: raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. The minimum-wage intervention would kill a lot of birds with one stone: it’s a win-win-win-win-win-win. First of all, most simply and most cleanly, it would immediately raise the incomes of millions of cash-strapped Americans — precisely the […]