workers

By Peter Van Buren | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality, and when other candidates speak about the minimum wage and food stamps, what are they really talking about? Whether they know it or not, it’s something like this. My Working Life Then A few years ago, […]

Israel

Israel’s working poor

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By Jacob Wirtschafter | ( Your Middle East) | A poverty report has added fuel to long-standing debates about religion, intercommunal politics, and Israel’s national priorities. An energy boom and its high-tech achievements as the vaunted “start-up nation” notwithstanding, Israel is seeing more and more of its children living in poverty. Figures released by the […]

Banking

After 2008 Wall Street Crash, did US White Working Class Drink itself to Death?

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Barbara Ehrenreich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The white working class, which usually inspires liberal concern only for its paradoxical, Republican-leaning voting habits, has recently become newsworthy for something else: according to economist Anne Case and Angus Deaton, the winner of the latest Nobel Prize in economics, its members in the 45- to 54-year-old age group […]

Featured

Tunisian Nobel Recognizes role of Labor Unions, the Left in Democratic Transition

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – How many American news reports about the Nobel Peace Prize given to the Tunisian Quartet that pushed the country toward democracy and compromise will mention that two of the four organizations so honored are national labor unions of workers? A third was an attorneys’ guild. The […]

Israel/ Palestine

Union: 70 percent of Gaza workers live in poverty

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Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — Around 70 percent of workers in Gaza live in poverty, the director of the Gaza General Federation of Trade Unions, Sami al-Amsi, said on Thursday. Al-Amsi, at a press conference, warned that Gaza would face a “catastrophe” that will effect the majority of the coastal enclave’s […]

Republican Party

Trump is just as anti-Labor as the rest of the GOP

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By Donald Kaul | (Otherwords.org) | – – When it comes to the way he treats workers, the Donald is as Republican as capital gains and Richard Nixon. There are those who would have you believe that Donald Trump is an aberration among Republican presidential contenders — the black sheep uncle who shows up half-drunk […]

Foreign Policy

American Workers need a Raise, & the Iran Deal, and Peace

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By Michael Eisenscher | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | We’ll never rebuild this country if we keep wasting money on war. This Labor Day, like others before it, finds American workers squeezed on many fronts. Inequality is rising, union membership is dwindling, and wages aren’t keeping up with job growth. Naturally, addressing all those challenges […]

African-Americans

Can Bernie Sanders become the Frontrunner coming out of Labor Day Weekend?

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Ed Schultz | The Ed Show | (Video Interview) | – – “Presidential Candidate and Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, joins Ed Schultz to discuss a wide range of issues including why his message is resonating with Democrats, how he responds to those who say he can’t win, getting respect from the media, and the narrative […]

African-Americans

Bernie Sanders launches “Political Revolution” w/ 100K Virtual House Partiers

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Bernie Sanders spoke from a house party in Washington, D.C., to supporters gathering in 3500 homes and other locations around the country in groups ranging from 7-8 to 80 or 90. He said it was a “historical night” and unprecedented to have these coordinated gatherings with an on-line streamed […]