2015/04/17 – An argument for why the movement to raise the minimum wage is critical, especially for the large numbers of low-wage black and brown workers who are living near the poverty line. Almost two years ago, McDonald’s worker Nancy Salgado …..
2015/04/16 – Mississippi residents converged on Jackson this month to push for a $15 minimum hourly wage and union representation for fast-food and other low-wage workers. The movement arrived on the heels of McDonald’s executives announcing a pay increase for workers …..
2015/04/16 – Mississippi politicians love to crow about the state’s low taxes and, in the most recent legislative session, tried unsuccessfully to empty the treasury even more. Yet, a new report out today from financial-information website WalletHub shows that Mississippi taxpayers, the …..
2015/4/1-Members of the group Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan (MAFFAN) say that Nissan North American should have paid for new schools instead of the citizens of Canton. Canton voters recently passed a $33 million dollar school bond issue that …..
How our transportation system discriminates against the most vulnerable. 2015/3/2-At the easternmost edge of Lake Erie, where the lake meets the Niagara River, the Peace Bridge connects the United States and Canada. The two-thirds-of-a-mile-long bridge is one of the busiest …..
