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From L.A. to Denver to New York, Tens of Thousands March Demanding $15/Hour
Nearly 1,000 fast-food workers, Walmart employees and union members in Los Angeles joined nationwide protests Wednesday calling for a $15 minimum wage.
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The Truth About the Detroit Water Shutoffs
Ever since the City of Detroit started shutting off water to low-income residents last summer, city officials have maintained that they're simply responding to Detroiters’ failure to pay their bills – but now it's looking like that's not the case.
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Connecticut Bill Would Fine Corporations for Low Wages
The proposed legislation would subject for-profit companies with 500 or more employees to a fine for every employee who is paid less than $15 an hour, essentially forcing those companies to raise wages or pay if they refuse.
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A Hillary Clinton Coronation Will Pave the Way for a Scott Walker Presidency
Hillary Clinton is obviously not a progressive candidate – and she is the epitome of the Washington establishment that most Republicans are running against, and which most Americans have grown to distrust.
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Turning the Tide: A Newspaper for People In Prison Gets A Second Wind
Through a grassroots fundraising campaign, Vanessa Carlisle was able to turn this L.A.-based newspaper for incarcerated people into a sustainable publication.
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Strikes Proliferate In China As Working Class Awakens
The country's 168 million migrant workers are discovering their labor rights through the spread of social media, becoming a thorn in the side of the Communist party.
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Fight for $15 Goes Global As U.S. Workers Launch Worldwide Protest
On Wednesday morning, the fastfood labor campaign is staging what organizers say will be its largest ever protest – spanning 40 countries and including actions in 200 U.S. cities demanding higher wages.
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As Low Wage Workers Take the Streets, A Unifying Coalition Takes Hold
Activists fighting for civil rights, gay rights, and a living wage are building the kinds of ties across their movements that can help each one achieve the goals around which their movements organized in the first place.
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Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies Now and Bring In Carbon Tax, Says World Bank Chief
Jim Yong Kim predicts that putting taxes on the use of carbon would trigger a wave of clean technology to lift people out of poverty in the developing world while preventing global temperatures from rising by more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
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Fight for 15 on 4/15: Low Wage Workers Prepare for Biggest Ever Nationwide Protests
In the wave of actions demanding higher wages on April 15, organizers say more than 60,000 people will join strikes and protests in 200 cities nationwide – with support actions in dozens of other countries.
