Published on Sep 8, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Supporting unions and raising the minimum wage may not be as unreasonable as people think.
Published on Sep 28, 2013 PROVIDED BY HTTP://cnnnext.com Governor Jerry Brown and the leaders of the California state Legislature announced strong support Wednesday for a bill that would raise the state's minimum wage to $10 an hour.
Streamed live on October 1, 2014 Executive Order raises City’s living wage immediately to $13.13 per hour, expected to exceed $15 by 2019 Minimum
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Watch the full interview with Ralph Nader on Democracy Now! at . In the past two months, fast-food workers across the country have walked off the job to push for a $15-an-hour wage and the right to unionize w
Published on Jan 19, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM The impact of a minimum wage hike is one of the most hotly debated issues in economic research. But a growing body of evidence indicates that a Congressional proposal, backed by Pr
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Jul 24, 2015 A coalition of Democrats in both the House and the Senate have introduced legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage by the largest margin in history. Led by Bernie Sander
Published on Feb 15, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM LIKE US HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT This week, President Obama took action to lift more workers' wages by requiring that federal contractors pay their employees a fair wage of at l
Published on Feb 12, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM LIKE US HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT President Obama delivers remarks on the importance of raising the federal minimum wage for all workers and signs an Executive Order requiring fe
Published on May 16, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Workers demand a $15 an hour wage with a right to unionize without retaliation, while fast food CEOs earn 1200 times more than the average fast food worker
PUBLISHED BY JUNE 12, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Mitt Romney says that we should raise the minimum wage --On the Bonus Show: Inte. Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney joined the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe on F
Published on Sep 4, 2014 The heat is on in America's fast food kitchens with workers from McDonald's, Burger King and other chains planning their biggest strike yet. RT's Marina Portnaya reports. Minimum Wage
Published on May 22, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Hundreds of protesters showed up at McDonald's headquarters to protest wages -- 110 of them were arrested.
Published on Apr 3, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM President Obama travels to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and delivers remarks explaining the critical importance of raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10. April 2, 201
Published on Feb 5, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM LIKE US HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT During a virtual road trip on Google , President Obama answers a question from Darnell Summers, a fry cook at a fast-food restaurant in Milwaukee
Published on Apr 26, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM In this week's address, the President highlights small business owners across the country acting to raise wages for their workers, and calls on Congress to give America a raise so m
Published on Feb 19, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM/CNNNEXT LIKE US HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT Amid dialogue over how to reverse income inequality, both political parties are seizing on a report by the Congressional Budget Office
The minimum wage went up in 13 states around the country on Wednesday, some through straight increases and others through cost-of-living adjustments. California will raise its minimum wage to $9 in July, and Washington, DC and parts of Mary
Published on Mar 29, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM In this week's address, Vice President Biden discusses the importance of raising the federal minimum wage. It's good for workers, it's good for business, and it would help close the
Published on Mar 5, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM President Obama says that it's time to raise the minimum wage because nobody who works full-time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. March 5, 2014.
Published on Mar 22, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM In this week's address, President Obama highlights the importance of making sure our economy rewards the hard work of every American -- including America's women.
Published on Aug 30, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM In this week’s address, the President wished Americans a Happy Labor Day weekend, highlighted the important economic progress we’ve made, and reaffirmed his commitment to accelerate
2/14/13 A day after the 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama toured a North Carolina factory in order to press his economic plan to raise the minimum wage. Judy Woodruff
2/14/13 The State of the Union proposal with by far the most political juice is going to be a call to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 and index it to inflation. That would put it, in inflation-adjusted terms, back up to its 1981 leve
Published on Feb 17, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM like us http://facebook.com/cnnnext Business groups are taking no chances on a possible minimum wage increase despite the promise from House Republicans to oppose it.
Published on Jul 31, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM A new billboard in San Francisco threatens that if minimum wage is increased, workers will be replaced with iPads. But isn't this already happening?
Published on Mar 8, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM In this week's address, President Obama highlights the momentum building across the country to give Americans a raise and reiterates his call for Congress to increase the minimum wag
Published on Feb 22, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM In this week's address, President Obama says this is a year of action, and he will do everything he can to restore opportunity for all. The President already lifted the wages for fe
Published on Jul 6, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM John F. O'Donnell explains why self-described plutocrat Nick Hanauer is going against his fellow billionaires and advocating for raising the minimum wage. He says trickle-down econ
Published on Mar 12, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM President Obama congratulates the Gap for doing the right thing by raising wages for thousands of its employees, and says he will continue calling on Congress to take action to
Published on May 15, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM In the latest skirmish in a year-and-a-half-long war for higher wages, fast food workers in the United States are staging a 150-city protest — and taking their fight overseas. Fast
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Congressman McDermott joined Al Sharpton and Austan Goolsbee to talk about February's strong jobs report and the need to raise the minimum wage.
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Oct 29, 2015 Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addressed his supporters and local students at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Sanders mainly focused on income inequality, universal hea
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Minimum wage rallies planned in 340 U.S. cities Fast food workers, airport employees, child care workers and Uber drivers are among the protesters planning rallies in some 340 U.S. cities, the first...
Published on Jan 28, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM like us http://facebook.com/cnnnext President Obama will use executive powers to to increase the minimum wage for new federal contract workers. More from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/
8/17/13 Watch the full report on the fast food and retail strike on Democracy Now! at http://owl.li/nzXy1. A national strike for a living wage and the right to unionize in the fast food and retail sectors has spread across seven cities. Hu
Provided by http://cnnnext.com http://www.democracynow.org - A national strike for a living wage and the right to unionize in the fast food and retail sectors has spread across seven cities. Hundreds of workers walked off the job Thursday
We're in serious trouble when these issues have to be exposed by Russia Today! The police state is fundamentally evil in many ways, but none is more evil than the double standard when it comes to the application of law. We are forced to acc
Published on Jan 29, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM LIKE US FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT Watch the full Keiser Report Episode 556 on Thursday! In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the print, taper, pri
Published on Aug 3, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Tuesday that McDonald’s could be held jointly liable for labor and wage violations by its franchise operators — a
Published on Jul 25, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Arizona death row inmate Joseph Wood was pronounced dead nearly two hours after his execution via lethal injection began Wednesday night. Witnesses reported seeing and hearing Woo
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Knightscope CEO Bill Santana Li discusses the company's security robots with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's technology
Provided by http://cnnnext.com Walmart and McDonalds are some of the country's biggest employers but they make it nearly impossible for their workers to earn a living wage. We look at some of the numbers in this Buzzsaw news clip with Ty
Provided by http://cnnnext.com Sarah Jaffe, Independent Journalist/The Atlantic, joins Thom Hartmann. Fast food jobs were once thought to be transition jobs for teenagers and college kids - but now - Americans of all ages are relying on th
Provided by http://cnnnext.com Employees and anti-poverty activists gathered in London on Saturday to protest against Zero Hour contracts - agreements which do not guarantee working hours. The use of these contracts grew during the worl
Provided by http://cnnnext.com Fighting To Work For A Living Wage Poverty On Strike the poor are slaves, the poor have to do what they are told, obey, follow, fight for someone else, stay in a low wage environment
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM This week, Wisconsin joined 24 other states in passing a right-to-work law. As “cheap labor” has become somewhat of a mantra for conservatives, the saga in Wisconsin further shows how these “right to work” law
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Apr 2, 2015 April 1 -- Oppenheimerfunds Chief Economist Jerry Webman examine McDonald’s to raise wages and pay for time off in U.S. stores on July 1, 2015. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Alix Steel ,
Living below the living wage? Over 5 million UK workers earn less than the living wage. READ MORE http://rt.com/uk/ WATCH LIVE: http://rt.com/on-air/rt-uk-air/ FOLLOW ON TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/RTUKnews FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK: http://ww
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Jun 19, 2015 In May, the U.S. economy added 280,000 new jobs, one of the best months we’ve seen for private sector job growth in a long time. But before we get too excited about those numbers, we
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Jul 15, 2015 A new report claims that the war in Afghanistan costs American taxpayers around $4 million per hour, totaling more than $700 billion so far. RT correspondent Manuel Rapalo has more on
Well, Super Tuesday didn't go well. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Read more here: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/04/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-primary-121225 Bernie Sanders wasted little tim
Day after day as we head toward winter, America's Covid-19 crisis is getting worse with record breaking case numbers, hospitalizations, and deaths. Dr. Kavita Patel reacts. Aired on 11/26/2020. »
Published on Oct 11, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM In this week’s address, the President makes the case for why it’s past time to raise the minimum wage. Increasing the national minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would benefit 28 millio
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Published on Feb 14, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM LIKE US HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, the President hosted the first
2/20/13 The sterling strikes a seven month low against the dollar. CNN's Richard Quest explains why.
Published on Mar 7, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM This week, The White House hosted its first ever White House Student Film Festival, while the President addressed the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine, presented his budget for Fiscal Y
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM McDonald's McResource Line website is supposed to provide lifestyle advice to assist it's employees. Watch the video to find out what ridiculous services McDonald's thinks it's employees should be tipping for
Published on Jan 28, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM LIKE US HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT In his annual State of the Union address, President Barack Obama urged legislators across the country to raise the minimum wage, saying no on
Published on Apr 4, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM This week, the President wrapped up a six day trip to Europe and Saudi Arabia, spoke on the success of the first open enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act, traveled to Michig
2/16/13 In this week's address, President Obama calls for quick action on the proposals he made during the State of the Union to grow our economy and create jobs, including making America a magnet for manufacturing, strengthening our educa
Published on Jun 25, 2013 Vice President Biden highlights the importance of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established the minimum wage in 1938, and discusses what the Administration's proposal to raise the minimum wage would mean f
Published on May 23, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM This week, the President spoke on the importance of raising the minimum wage, investing infrastructure, and bringing jobs & tourism back to America, invited the Super Bowl Champion
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM The fast-food industry is one of the nation's largest employers of low and minimum wage workers. According to one group, often the industry workers' pay is not enough and many turn to government programs for
Published on Aug 1, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM US corporate rats leave ship for UK To Avoid Tax Increase In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the US corporate rats abandoning ship for the U
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Apr 1, 2015 Senator Elizabeth Warren talks with Rachel Maddow about the differences between Democrats and Republicans on popular issues like student loans and the minimum wage, and why she thinks
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Apr 11, 2015 The Young Turks discusses the state of income inequality that is only expected to rise in the next few decades. How does minimum wage worker's income stack up against just the bonuse
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Apr 16, 2015 From Los Angeles and New York to Brazil and Estonia, protesters have been active in the streets for the Fightfor15 rallies, demanding a living wage in jobs ranging from McDonalds to W
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on May 5, 2015 A new study shows housing rents have surged at twice the pace of average hourly wages in the US. Many Americans have to choose between buying groceries for their families and paying re
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Aug 22, 2015 In this week's address, the President spoke to the economic progress that our country has made over the past few years, from over 13 million new jobs over the past five and a half yea
A new rule being pursued by the Trump Department of Labor would allow employers to legally steal the tips from their workers as long as they are paying their workers minimum wage. This will result in billions of dollars lost each year, most
Published on Jul 10, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM For the first time, Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) progress report on the war on poverty heard from a person actually experiencing it, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell reported on Wednesday
Published on Mar 10, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden spoke to South By Southwest conference attendees via satellite from Russia on Monday. SXSW is the annual music, film, and inte
Published on Feb 14, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM LIKE US HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT On December 18th, the Public Broadcasting Service's flagship station WNET issued a press release announcing the launch of a new two-year news s
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 8, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Israel will be receiving more money from the US after a bill signed by US President Barack Obama this week. At an African Leadership Conference he defended his decision to sign th
Take a closer look at the flare that erupted on March 6, 2012. This movie of the March 6, 2012 X5.4 flare was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the 171 and 131 Angstrom wavelength. One of the most dramatic features is the
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) --- Bloomberg's Kateryna Choursina reports on the growing tensions in Ukraine over the country not signing the EU accord and the excessive violence against the students who were protesting
Published on May 15, 2015 For the first time Austin’s city has a majority of women and the city manager doesn’t really know how to handle it. He’s actually a little concerned that there needs to be some sort of lesson on how to handle wome
Published on Aug 23, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Increasing workers' earning power and offering Latino-owned companies easier access to funding that can be used for growth and expansion can help improve the social and economic sta
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Despite rising casualties, Israel is continuing to pound Gaza. At least 10 militants were killed as they crossed the border through two tunnels. 35 more civilians were killed in southern Gaza as Prime Ministe
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Dwight Howard held an actual opinion on something yesterday! It took less than an hour for him to apologize for it. The Rockets center's desire to please everyone inadvertently made him hold a stance on an
Published on May 14, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM The United Nations Security Council has held a three-hour meeting behind closed doors to discuss the crisis in Syria. After the meeting, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin slammed t
http://hotterthanapileofcurry.wordpress.com On Monday night, BBC2 screened a shocking programme about how some Jewish extremists and Israel have been secretly behind the rise of the notorious Fascist Geert Wilders. The programme was r
Published on Apr 1, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM A Delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state Superior Court judge ruled he will not fare well in prison. In her decision, J
DemocracyNow.org — Thousands are expected to protest in Michigan today as Republican Gov. Rick Snyder prepares to sign a pair of anti-union bills that would make his the 24th so-called right to work state in the country. Pushed through be
Published on Mar 11, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM The four and a half hour deposition shows the pop singer acting smug and insolent with lawyers.
PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 19, 2013 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM A wealthy Texas teenager who got no jail time for killing four pedestrians while driving drunk still faces three civil lawsuits filed by victims' family members, NBC's Dallas
Published on Jan 20, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM What, exactly, are those chemicals being pumped underground during the fracking process? In North Carolina, no one has to say. On Tuesday, the 15-member state Mining and Energy Com
Published on Apr 23, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM A push for some social media love by the New York Police Department backfired badly, with Twitter users taking advantage of the invitation to mock the NYPD and other departments na
Published on Jun 26, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss American corporations fleeing the USA for lower tax, higher wage areas abroad - like Ireland and the UK. T
Published on Apr 17, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Obama Warns Putin Over Ukraine Ukraine Separatists Killed Ahead Of Talks Armed men reportedly attack a Ukraine military base, as Obama warns Putin US forces are significantly
http://www.euronews.com/ Egypt is taking urgent action to avoid a currency crisis and prevent a messy devaluation. After appealing to people to go easy on exchanging the local pound for US dollars, the central bank is holding auctions
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Published on Sep 6, 2015 So you might want to be a little more selective about your friends on Facebook. Facebook has determined your friends income level, which could hurt you when you apply for a loan. Cenk
Published on Feb 11, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM LIKE US HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT It was just last June that Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto declared there is a war on men. At the time, he was writing about the
Published on Mar 28, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM *Football players at Northwestern University have cleared the first major hurdle in their closely watched unionization effort, with an official of the National Labor Relations Board
PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM A 10-hour raging inferno razed ancient Tibetan town Dukezong in China, a popular tourist area. Over 2,000 responders brought the fire under control by 11 a.m. (Jan. 11)
January 11th 2013: FROM CBS 2 CHICAGO: A boy just days away from his 15th birthday was among two young teens killed in gun violence in Chicago since Friday afternoon, authorities said. Separate shootings wounded four other people, most of
Published on Jan 13, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Aides close to Chris Christie shut down lanes on the George Washington Bridge last summer, the popular theory goes, as a means of revenge against a Democratic mayor who didn't endo
Published on Jan 15, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM Two former cops accused of unlawfully killing a schizophrenic California homeless man in July 2011 have been found not guilty. Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli had been charged wi
Published on Feb 10, 2014 PROVIDED BY HTTP://CNNNEXT.COM LIKE US HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/CNNNEXT A group of federal prosecutors is criticizing the Department of Justice's support for legislation that would soften U.S. drug sentencing polici
