inequality

Illegally fired for exercising your rights at work? You should be able to sue

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The new bill to strengthen penalties against employers who illegally fire workers for collective action that Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Bobby Scott introduced in Congress on Wednesday would do more than just deter those illegal firings, argue the Century Foundation’s Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit: it would reframe union rights as civil rights. The …

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Put Working People First

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The jobs report Friday set off cheering: a quarter million positions added in December; unemployment declining to 5.6 percent. This good news arrived amid a booming stock market and a third-quarter GDP report showing the strongest growth in 11 years. It’s all so very jolly, except for one looming factor: wages. They’re not rising. In …

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What’s Behind The Gender Inequality In American Boardrooms

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When Ellen Costello started out in the financial industry, she was often the only woman in the room. “Especially the times I was in the capital markets business, there were very few women,” she told ThinkProgress. When she served on BMO’s board for seven years, she was one of three women out of 15 seats. …

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Bold Policies Will Solve Retirement Inequality

Leave a Comment / retirement / By max cyril

Rondell Johnson is a 23-year-old baggage handler at the Philadelphia International Airport. He aspires to one day attend business school and prepare for a career as a real estate entrepreneur. But he, like many other low-wage workers who work full time for minimum wages, brings in “just over $15,000 a year before taxes.” The poverty line …

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Illegally fired for exercising your rights at work? You should be able to sue

Put Working People First

What’s Behind The Gender Inequality In American Boardrooms

Bold Policies Will Solve Retirement Inequality

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