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Companies hold back from expanding and rehiring in the face of weak demand for their goods and services. The few jobs that are being created are low-paying positions with declining wages. Given these obstacles, how can we jump-start demand and create the impetus for rehiring that businesses need?

We need meaningful proposals that can help put a little more money in the pockets of millions of Americans who are working but are still financially struggling. Here are three: Raise the minimum wage. Eliminate wage theft. Protect the rights of workers to bargain collectively. (Part IV of a series.)

The Austin American-Statesman ran an op-ed Saturday under the head-spinning headline ”Low Texas Wages are Mostly Good News.” No joke.

In yet another attack on the minimum wage, NYT Economix blogger Casey Mulligan argues that the failure of part-time employment to continue to increase at the end of 2009 is proof that the July 2009 minimum wage increase prevented more part-time jobs from being created.

In his latest attack on the minimum wage,Casey Mulligan charges in his NYT Economix post that the 2007-2009 minimum wage increases are adding to teen unemployment.

As conservatives in Congress exploit the impending vote to on the debt ceiling to further slash government programs that support working and middle class families, a new poll from the Ms.

 
The House Republicans have developed a track record of bait and switch when it comes to their approach to job creation.
 

"No one is available to take your call." The health insurance industry has launched a "listening tour" publicity campaign, but a video produced by the Campaign for America's Future, in conjunction with Health Care for America Now, captures the industry's indifference to hearing real solutions that deliver “affordable, high quality health care for every American.”