Source: In These Times By Branko Marcetic Over the past year, the campaign to raise the minimum wage has been steadily accumulating prominence, political allies and, most importantly, successes. Not surprisingly, it has also occasioned a pushback from conservative politicians and columnists who view its increase as a misguided, self-defeating folly. The main points of the conservative argument against raising …
How Section 8 became a ‘racial slur’
Source: Washington Post By Emily Badger Coded language, by definition, conveys much saying very little. And so those words allegedly uttered in McKinney, Tex., before a confrontation between police and black teens — “Go back to your Section 8 home” — evoked a particular and vivid set of assumptions. The words were offensive because of what we think they meant in …
One Fair Wage for Restaurant Workers in D.C.
By ROC United DC We believe it’s time for One Fair Wage in Washington, D.C. The two-tiered wage system, which permits employers to pay tipped workers a subminimum wage, is broken and it’s time to fix it. Right now, tipped employees earn as little as $2.77. Nationally, that figure is just $2.13 per hour. After taxes, that means many tipped …
