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AFL-CIO to push economic agenda starting with January wage summit

November 13, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The AFL-CIO will strongly push its economic agenda, emphasizing job creation and raising workers' incomes, starting with a "wage summit" in January in D.C.

Wanted: an economy that puts people first

November 12, 2014 By Tim Libretti

I have a confession to make. In the series of articles I have supposedly been writing about income inequality, I have really been writing about something else: need.

Trumka: Voters said they were “desperate” for new economic life

November 6, 2014 By Kenneth Quinnell

"The fact of the matter is that people are disillusioned by endless political bickering and eyed these elections with great dispirit."

The roots of economic justice

October 30, 2014 By Rev. Jim Conn

Minimum wages should provide enough income for working families to put shelter over their heads, food on their tables and clothes on their backs.

Fed’s Yellen hits income inequality

October 27, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Even the head of the Fed now worries about the chasm of income inequality. But Janet Yellen, in a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, took it one step beyond money.