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They came with placards, matching T-shirts, and personal stories of hardship in an effort to sway Beacon Hill lawmakers into giving minimum-wage earners a pay increase. Opponents also came, armed with employment data, shrinking teen jobs numbers, and an impassioned plea to lawmakers to go easy on Massachusetts businesses. In a show that the minimum […]

Ralph Nader joins “The McGraw Show” to discuss raising the minimum wage.

Minimum wage workers haven’t seen their pay go up much in the past 50 years, but that doesn’t mean they’re less valuable to their employers. Read more

Joe Carcello has a great job. The 59-year-old has an annual salary of $52,700, gets five weeks of vacation a year, and is looking forward to retiring on the sizable nest egg in his 401(k), which his employer augments with matching funds. After 26 years at his company, he’s not worried about layoffs. In 2009, […]

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is rapidly approaching, commemorating the historic Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington. But 45 years ago, 1968, the year of his assassination, King was waging the Poor People’s Campaign to eradicate poverty. He addressed the congregation […]

In 2008, after being elected to his first term in the White House, President Obama promised to raise the minimum wage to $9.50/hr by 2011. Nearly five years later and almost a half year into his second term, he now only hopes to raise it to $9.00/hr by 2015. The federal minimum wage currently sits […]