The Federal Minimum Wage needs to be increased. States like Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (surprising,) South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia (again surprising,) Wisconsin (ouch, one of the birthplaces of Progressivism,) and Wyoming all subscribe to the current federal minimum wage which has … Read more
Let us hear Republicans moan and groan about this. President Biden signed two Executive Orders today designed to increase access to health care for the American People. Saying “it is more critical that Americans have critical access to health care,” President Biden signed two Executive Orders that: Reopened the Obamacare-Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces from … Read more
The minimum wage in Arizona is $12 per hour. Arizona prisoners do a variety of jobs from manual labor to answering phones for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), for which they are paid anywhere between 10 cents to $3 per hour. The ADOT Service Arizona call center workers are the highest paid prisoners, but … Read more
Our lawless Republican legislators love loan sharks and predatory lenders. Remember the consumer rights fight we had over Jonathan “Payday” Paton and the payday loan industry in 2008? (From the archives, The Sun Sets on Payday Loans in Arizona). Neil Young wrote the song “rust never sleeps,” and neither does evil. It is omnipresent and … Read more
In the chaos theory of governance of the Trump administration, so much craziness happens every day that it is easy to overlook important events in the din of noise. Which is really the whole point of chaos theory. Trump wants to overwhelm the senses with the vast volume of his craziness every day so that … Read more