Conservatives driving you insane claiming President Obama is doing nothing to create jobs, to insure economic opportunity for working class Americans? The President will continue to work with Congress wherever he can to keep our economy moving forward and creating jobs. But in the meantime, he’s also going to do everything he can on his […]
Female workers make 77 cents for every dollar that male workers make. Learn more about the wage gap in America and what’s being done about it. [1] It’s 2014, the Digital Age. You might think that discrimination against women in the workplace is over, that it disappeared alongside corded phones and typewriters. But astonishingly, women […]
The 1.4 million jobs added in the first half of this year are the most in any first half since 1999. Furthermore, this is the first time since September 1999-January 2000 we have seen total job growth above 200,000 for five straight months. While today’s jobs report is encouraging, many families are still struggling with […]
President Obama blasted Congressional Republicans on Tuesday for their failure to bring legislative matters up for a vote, taunting them threatening more executive actions. Time reports: “Speaking in the shadow of the Key Bridge in Washington to urge Congress to act on funding for the Federal Highway Trust Fund, Obama said the American people have […]
A photojournalist who covered last year’s deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh draws connections to New York from clothing labels he found in the rubble. As reported by the New York Times, on April 24, 2013, “Ismail Ferdous photographed the deadliest disaster in garment industry history: the collapse of Rana Plaza in […]