By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In President Barack Obama’s State of the Union (SOU) address, he appealed to our nation’s employers to raise wages from...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was pleased that President Obama spent so much time on the matter of economic inequality and the need...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama served notice in his State of the Union speech that he intends to make 2014...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The role we play in our own economic demise is mind-boggling. First, our priorities are screwed up. We place more...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic push to boost the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour is a long shot in Congress this election year, even...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With a largely uncooperative, highly-partisan Congress headed into a mid-term election, President Obama declared in his State...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The first federal minimum wage of 25 cents an hour was established in 1938. Since then, it has been raised...
[UPI] PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 11 (UPI) — More than three quarters of respondents to a Gallup poll indicated they would vote for raising the federal minimum...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist If you don’t know about it, there is an ongoing fight between the Walmart and the union movement. The political...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Increasing the minimum wage would disproportionately benefit, Black workers and push the country closer to racial...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Some phones were ringing; others were on hold as Real Christian Radio’s host was well into his 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. program...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It seems that the term “poverty” has been sidelined from our national discourse, even though 15 percent of all Americans, and...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Despite working a full-time job, many low-wage workers still live in poverty. This isn’t right.” – Rep. George Miller...
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) (Courtesy of Black Enterprise) [Black Enterprise] It’s been three years now since there was a national minimum wage increase. The current...
