THIS LABOR DAY, let’s forego the usual doom-and-gloom about a supposedly dying American union movement. The labor movement is alive, well, and shaping this country in ways all reasonable Americans […]
Tyrek Lee Sr.
Posted inEconomy, Opinion, Politics
A $15 minimum wage is about basic fairness
WHEN WE LOOK back at 2016, we should remember it as the year our working class finally began turning the corner after far too many lean years. Evidence of progress […]
Posted inEconomy, Health Care, Opinion
Even the paying field for hospitals
THE OVERRIDING MESSAGE from voters across the country to the political establishment could not be clearer: Level the increasingly tilted economic playing field. Stop giving 95 percent of the economic […]