Group Claims Snyder Is Illegally Using Millions In Taxpayer Money To Defend...
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has inked agreements with two law firms to sort through documents and conduct other legal work in relation to the lawsuits brought against him by Flint residents and the...
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New Evidence That Women Make Less Than Their Male Coworkers With The Same Titles
Most people know American women, on average, make 79 percent of what men make. Some argue it’s because women choose lower paying fields or shy away from jobs that come with higher compensation. But a...
View ArticleCruz Promises Tax Cuts For The Rich Will Create Economic Growth Not Seen In...
Jeb Bush was lambasted for promising that his presidency would have created 4 percent GDP growth. Republican candidate Ted Cruz is now going even further: he’s promising 5 percent growth or more. On...
View ArticleConservatives Aren’t Taking The Harriet Tubman News Well
Hours after the Treasury Department announced its plans to revamp a number of U.S. paper bills with depictions of African American and female civil rights icons, conservatives started criticizing the...
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Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere In The Country
People who make the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour can’t find an affordable place to live anywhere in the country, according to a new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. But...
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Congresswoman Who Used To Receive Welfare Wants To Drug Test Rich People Who...
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) has had enough of the growing movement to drug test poor people who need government assistance. So on Tuesday, she’s introducing a bill that she says will make things fairer. Her...
View ArticleMichigan Spent Eight Months Drug Testing The Poor And Found Zero Positive...
In the eight months that Michigan has been running a pilot program to drug test applicants and recipients of its welfare program, not a single person has tested positive, according to preliminary...
View ArticleAfter Lead Contamination in House Office Building’s Water, Lawmakers Demand...
A day after House members learned that the drinking water in one of the Congressional office buildings had been shut off due to lead contamination, a bipartisan group of 61 representatives sent a...
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Fox News Host Sues Roger Ailes Over Sexual Harassment
Gretchen Carlson, a longtime Fox News host, has filed a lawsuit against Fox Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes alleging that he made unwanted sexual advances and then sabotaged her career when she refused....
View ArticleMassachusetts Becomes First State Ever To Ban Employers From Asking For...
Massachusetts has leapfrogged over all other states to pass the most robust equal pay law in the country. The law takes a step that is completely unique: it prohibits employers from asking prospective...
View ArticleJob Growth Stays Steady While Wage Growth Fails To Take Off
The economy added 151,000 jobs in August while the unemployment rate stayed unchanged at 4.9 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Analysts had expected 180,000...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Accused of Ignoring Rampant Sexual Harassment in its Restaurants
When CyCei Monae began her job as a cook and cashier at a McDonald’s in Flint, Michigan, she says she was nervous. “I was brand new, a little shy,” she said in a call with the media on Wednesday. She...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Jr. Thinks Women Who are Harassed at Work Should Stay Home
Multiple women have now come forward with stories of being harassed and assaulted by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump while working with or for him. According to his son, if they didn’t...
View ArticleMega AT&T Merger Would put Clinton’s Trust Busting Promises to the Test
It was just weeks ago that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton laid out an ambitious new agenda to combat corporate concentration with antitrust policies. Now a giant new merger looks...
View ArticleTrump abandons campaign promise to penalize outsourcing, offers tax breaks...
Everyone is trying to stop Carrier from moving jobs to Mexico. Earlier this year, the air conditioner and furnace giant, along with its parent company United Technologies, announced that it planned to...
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Congresswoman Who Used To Receive Welfare Wants To Drug Test Rich People Who...
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) has had enough of the growing movement to drug test poor people who need government assistance. So on Tuesday, she’s introducing a bill that she says will make things fairer. Her...
View ArticleMichigan Spent Eight Months Drug Testing The Poor And Found Zero Positive...
In the eight months that Michigan has been running a pilot program to drug test applicants and recipients of its welfare program, not a single person has tested positive, according to preliminary...
View ArticleAfter Lead Contamination in House Office Building’s Water, Lawmakers Demand...
A day after House members learned that the drinking water in one of the Congressional office buildings had been shut off due to lead contamination, a bipartisan group of 61 representatives sent a...
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Fox News Host Sues Roger Ailes Over Sexual Harassment
Gretchen Carlson, a longtime Fox News host, has filed a lawsuit against Fox Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes alleging that he made unwanted sexual advances and then sabotaged her career when she refused....
View ArticleMassachusetts Becomes First State Ever To Ban Employers From Asking For...
Massachusetts has leapfrogged over all other states to pass the most robust equal pay law in the country. The law takes a step that is completely unique: it prohibits employers from asking prospective...
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