Posted at https://www.chn.org/2017/12/19/stealing-tips/#.WjlsnFWnEdU By David Elliot December 19, 2017 Advocates for restaurant employees and other tipped workers are speaking out against a proposed rule that would make tips the property of employers, a proposal which opponents fear would lead to significantly … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): Economic observers have become increasingly worried about “secular stagnation”—a chronic shortfall of aggregate demand—fearing that this shortfall will constrain American economic growth in the years ahead. In a new paper, EPI Research Director Josh … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): The Trump administration has proposed a rule that would allow restaurant owners to take servers’ tips from them. The rule is being peddled as a “tip sharing” rule, as it would allow employers to … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): Two billion dollars in stolen wages were recovered for workers in 2015 and 2016—and that’s just a drop in the bucket. Wage theft is epidemic, and low-wage workers are more likely than others to … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-12-15/consumer-issues/fcc-votes-to-end-net-neutrality/a60671-1 December 15, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Advocates for net neutrality say internet service should be treated and regulated as a utility. (Picography/Pixabay) HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Federal Communications … Continued
From the Kairos Center (https://kairoscenter.org/): The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival officially launched in Washington, D.C. last week, declaring that we are here to challenge the evils of poverty, systemic racism, the war economy, and environmental devastation with a press … Continued
Posted at https://talkpoverty.org/2017/11/30/new-bill-congress-make-mobile-home-loans-even-predatory/ December 5, 2017 | Amanda Abrams AP Photo/Seth Wenig At the end of September, the Federal Reserve released its annual collection of data gathered under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. Among other findings, the report details that the country’s … Continued
From the Project on Government Oversight (http://www.pogo.org/): The federal government’s response to this year’s hurricanes in Puerto Rico, Florida, and Texas has fallen far short of what communities need to recover. Oversight for contracted relief efforts has been lackluster, delaying … Continued
From the Kairos Center (https://kairoscenter.org/): Our nation needs a moral revival. Systemic racism. Poverty. A war economy. Ecological destruction. A distorted national morality. These enmeshed evils are tearing apart the country’s social fabric. That’s why today, poor and disenfranchised people, … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): We need your help TODAY! The Senate could vote on their massive tax bill as early as late tonight, or early tomorrow morning. The huge deficits these tax cuts will run up will … Continued