It’s looking like it might be a long summer and for Black youth, and Congress isn’t making it any
easier. That’s because House Republicans (y’know, always with Black boys as a priority) decided to vote down an increase to the minimum wage, which would have raised it to $10.10 an hour by 2016 and possibly set forth a change that could have created real earning potential for disadvantaged young people who may otherwise look to the street for sources of income. The congressional vote is really a sampling of how there is broad ambivalence on the right to raising the minimum wage as a partial solution in areas where Black boys could use one. For example, Art Laffer, commenting on Fox News, feels the raising of the minimum wage is…
I’ve spent my entire career as a civil rights activist and anti-violence advocate. I hear from folks all over the country about how fed-up they…
President Barack Obama extended a personal apology to a University of Texas at Austin art professor who took offense to “off-the-cuff” remarks he made about…
Thirteen states are expected to raise their minimum wage this year, with 11 more considering pay increases. While local governments are taking the task of…
President Barack Obama (pictured) continues his fight for the values of middle class workers, turning his focus on working with Congress to raise the federal…
More than one million people lost their unemployment benefits this past Saturday, due to the expiration of the emergency program that Congress did not extend.…
