Raising the minimum wage would help the working poor and give the entire economy a boost, a new analysis finds. If the minimum wage rose to $10.10 per hour, as Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama propose, 27.8 million workers would see their wages go up as a direct or indirect result of the boost,… Continue reading New Report: Raising the Minimum Wage Create Jobs
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Debunking The Fox And Limbaugh Lie Machine
I like the way Dave Johnson started his article on this subject. He gathered the following three charts from the Budget of the United States Government: Historical Tables Fiscal Year 2012, and advised us that the next time “your right-wing brother-in-law” who “…is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh Lie Machine, and keeps sending you emails about “Obama… Continue reading Debunking The Fox And Limbaugh Lie Machine