Underpaid by Law – A Waitress’s Story
NOW President Terry O’Neill is quoted in this Women’s Media Center article by Hayley Day, who struggles to pay her bills serving tables while launching her career as a journalist.
issue: Economic Justice
NOW to Dems: Don’t Make Deals With Our Fiscal Future
Democrats, repeat after me: No deals. NO deals. NO DEALS.
GOP Offers to Throw Middle Class, Elderly Over the “Fiscal Cliff”
Richard Eskow writes for Campaign for America’s Future: “The Republican Party has a message for the American people: Meet the new deal, same as the old deal. The GOP ‘counter-offer’ to the President’s fiscal-cliff proposal isn’t really an offer at all: I…
After almost a decade, FCC has yet to rule on high cost of prison phone calls
Justin Moyer reports for The Washington Post: “Almost a decade ago, a petition by the families of inmates tired of paying sky-high rates for prison telephone calls landed at the Federal Communications Commission. Martha Wright-Reed of the District, an 86…
Class Wars of 2012
Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times: “The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people who bet big on Mr. Romney, and lost, are now trying to win by stealth — in the name of fiscal res…