Head Smacker: Minimum Wage Workers Forced to Rely on Public Subsidies While Their Employers Make Billions
Lecia Imbery,
August 6, 2014
Last Thursday, a group of minimum wage earners and supporters gathered on the steps of the Capitol to urge Members of Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10. Many at the rally brought spare pairs of shoes with them as a symbol of their challenge to Congress to...
Fact of the Week: More U.S. Cities Have Made it Illegal to Be Homeless
Lecia Imbery,
August 5, 2014
A report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty released in July shows a disturbing trend in cities across America – the passage of laws that, in effect, make it illegal to be homeless. And the number of cities that are criminalizing many of the activities that homeless...
Head Smacker: Professor Epstein Wants People to be Able to Take Jobs at 2 Cents an Hour
Deborah Weinstein,
July 31, 2014
There is a growing support for raising the minimum wage. In fact, 22 states and the District of Columbia have already enacted increases above the federal $7.25 per hour. But that view is not shared by Richard Epstein, professor of law at NYU. He was on the PBS NewsHour on...
Fact of the Week: Americans Want US to Give Shelter and Support to Child Refugees
Lecia Imbery,
July 31, 2014
A new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute sheds some light on what the U.S. public thinks about the child refugee crisis happening along the country’s southern borders. When asked what the U.S. should do about the children who are currently arriving from Central America without their parents, 70 percent...
New Q&A on the Child Refugee Crisis
Lecia Imbery,
July 30, 2014
There are many questions around the current child refugee crisis, including why the children are coming, what protections for them currently exist and what would happen if these protections are taken away, why additional money is needed and when it’s needed, how the public feels about the crisis, and why...
