The Minimum Wage and CEO Pay

click the photo for a handy graphThe top-earning executives in the country are faring far better than minimum wage workers in the Bush economy. While more and more working Americans are feeling the squeeze of rising costs, chief executives have been immune from these...

Health Care and the Minimum Wage

click the photo for a handy chartHealth-care costs have also increased dramatically over the past few years. While even middle and upper class families are struggling to absorb those costs, those earning the minimum wage are being left behind entirely.Most of these...

The Minimum Wage and Presidential Pay

Congress approved legislation in 2000 to double the President’s annual salary from $200,000 to $400,000, effective January 20, 2001. This jump, like the automatic Congressional pay increase, was deemed “a case of simple equity” to allow the President’s salary to keep...

More on the Minimum Wage – Greed and the Congress

Click the photo for an easy guide.The salary of a Member of Congress is now $165,200.[i] In June of 2006, the House of Representatives approved another Congressional pay increase for 2007.[ii] If the Senate also approves this automatic increase, Congressional pay will...

Who doesn't deserve health care?

Today’s Salt Lake Tribune reports advocates for Utah’s poor have launched a petition drive to show support for universal health care coverage. Perhaps it is time to put the question another way, who does not deserve health insurance? The working poor?...