Category: poverty
Why we joined Wisconsin’s Working Families Party
My wife Shelly and I have officially joined the Wisconsin Working Families Party. We’re sending them ten dollars a month as sustaining members. Why? Well, I’ll be writing more about this going forward, but for now let me just say that if it’s good enough for Pete, it’s good enough…
Don’t hold back Sly, tell us how you really feel.
John ” Sly ” Sylvester really went off on DPW Chair candidate Martha Laning on Friday in a program/podcast titled ” Candidate Martha Laning is no Democrat “. At issue for Sly is Laning’s statement last year that she couldn’t bring herself to support even a $10.10 an hour minimum…
Report: U.S. world leader in childhood poverty
This is absolutely disgraceful. America’s wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion. In approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent. Financier and CEO Peter Schiff said, “People don’t go hungry in a capitalist economy.” The…
One Reason The Affordable Care Act Is Here To Stay
Apparently 205,000+ Wisconsinites signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act during the recent open enrollment period…about 70,000 more enrollees than last year. The article about the increase in enrollment HERE! But what leads me to believe the ACA is here to stay? Well, because the insurance companies…
Walmart’s puny PR campaign
Walmart is making a big deal out of its announcement that the mega-profitable mega-retailer will raise wages in the next 12 months, up to a $10.00 an hour starting wage by February of 2016. What’s left out of Walmart’s announcement is that statutory minimum wage hikes in multiple states across…
Suburban Republican legislators Dale Kooyenga & Alberta Darling think they know how to fix Milwaukee!
Apparently Republican State Rep. Dale Kooyenga of upper class Brookfield and Republican State Sen. Alberta Darling of filthy rich River Hills think they know just how to fix poverty in the City of Milwaukee. Rep. Kooyenga and Sen. Darling, who’s famous for privatizing the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare and…
I am not an economist, but even I know that supply side economics is a crock.
It’s nothing but magical thinking…no better than “if you build it, they will come”. It is not the “rising tide that lifts all boats” that Jack Kemp, one of the earliest advocates of enterprise zones, promised when he introduced the use of tax cuts to stimulate economic growth in certain…
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
How many media outlets in the United States reported that last month, December 2014, 12,000 Chilean Walmart workers went on strike? Yes, you read me correctly: twelve thousand of them. Did any of you hear about this from CNN, Fox, NBC, ABC, The New York Times, anywhere in the media?…
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Scott Walker administration: $7.25 per hour is “living wage”
In September, 100 workers here in Wisconsin filed a complaint with the administration of Gov. Scott Walker (R) alleging that the state’s current minimum wage of $7.25 per hour violates State Statute 104.02, which states, “Every wage paid or agreed to be paid by any employer to any employee, except…
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