The Seattle Times‘ Bethany Jean Clement and the Puget Sound Business Journal reported today that famous Seattle sandwich shop Paseo will be reopening in a
LaunchNew York Mayor Bill de Blasio hails Seattle as pioneering city
Seattle, I’m going tip my cap. I hope you appreciate that we bow before you here in the largest city in the country, and we
LaunchBlack Friday: Wal-Mart workers revolt
Black Friday: Wal-Mart workers revolt For the third consecutive year, progressive grassroots organizers and workers at Wal-Mart are planning a nationwide labor protest on Black
LaunchElizabeth Warren: It’s time to work on America’s agenda
People are ready to work, ready to do their part, ready to fight for their futures and their kids’ futures, but they see a government
LaunchDavid Atkins: America needs universal, basic income… and the idea has bipartisan support
In short, two very distinct worldviews have both come to the same conclusion: we need to provide a basic universal income that allows people to
LaunchJanet Yellen addresses income inequality in groundbreaking speech
The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me… I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend
LaunchPresident Obama’s 2014 Labor Day remarks: America deserves a raise
Video above: President Obama delivers remarks at the 2014 Milwaukee Laborfest, saying that America deserves a raise. Excerpt: All across the country right now, there’s
LaunchRight wing launches misguided protest against Labor Day
Right wing launches misguided protest against Labor Day In this must-read column, The Seattle Times’ Danny Westneat takes direct aim at former Building Industry Association
LaunchRight wing think tank CEO: Donate so we can do to Washington what Scott Walker did to Wisconsin
Please donate now so we can do in Washington State what Scott Walker and my friend did in Wisconsin. — Freedom Foundation CEO Tom McCabe,
LaunchMary Poppins quits (with Kristen Bell, from Funny or Die)
Mary Poppins (Kristen Bell) is working for minimum wage, and really needs a raise.
LaunchThe pitchforks are coming… for us plutocrats
The pitchforks are coming… for us plutocrats Wealthy Seattle-based venture capitalist Nick Hanauer has penned a memo to America’s other rich denizens, warning them that
LaunchThe real price of cheap food: Slavery
The real price of cheap food: Slavery The Guardian reports that U.S. stores such as Costco and Walmart are selling shrimp from Thailand produced using
LaunchHey conservatives: Forbes says Washington is the best state to make a living!
Hey conservatives: Forbes says Washington is the best state to make a living! Forbes Magazine, that bastion of progressivism, has come out with a list
LaunchGrocery workers in California see wages shrink, study finds
I try not to cut back on food for my kids… If I have to, I let the phone get cut off. Or I don’t
LaunchLessons from corporatized college: Even PhDs are being squeezed out of the middle class
Lessons from corporatized college: Even PhDs are being squeezed out of the middle class. A college degree, or two or three, is not necessarily a
LaunchColorado’s Bennet reminds Republicans: Americans working on minimum wage make barely over $15,000 a year from those jobs
Right now, if you work forty hours a week in America, in the greatest country in the world, at a federal minimum wage, you make
LaunchHarry Reid denounces Republican filibuster of Paycheck Fairness Act
For reasons known only to them, Senate Republicans don’t seem to be interested in closing wage gaps for working women. — Senate Majority Leader Harry
LaunchBernie Sanders blames Republicans for “a very ugly moment in American history”
It is astounding to me from a moral perspective that folks in the Republican Party stay up nights figuring out how they can give more
LaunchPaul Krugman: Wealth over work
Not only don’t most Americans own businesses, but business income, and income from capital in general, is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few
LaunchCoal miners say they were surveilled, harassed after making safety complaints
Coal miners say they were surveilled, harassed after making safety complaints The Huffington Post chronicles the legal trouble that miners like Kentuckian Reuben Shemwell have
LaunchInequality for All director: Growing income divide threatens society
Pubic television’s Bill Moyers talks with Jacob Kornbluth, director of Inequality for All, about the widening disparity between the super wealthy and everyone else.
Launch