Graham-Cassidy needs to fail where Mainers will succeed.
What I want to teach my young sons as they grow up is to navigate our world by understanding where people are coming from, what ...
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Labor Day Reminds Us of the Fight Ahead
Labor Day celebrates the labor movement and the struggle for workers’ rights. There is much to celebrate but the work is not done. The struggle ...
Read postWe Won the Battle, But the War is Still Raging
Nationwide activism prevented a round of Senate bills that would have repealed Obamacare. But that tense, dramatic evening is not the end of the seven-year ...
Read postTalking Point Killers
One of the first talking points you hear against raising the minimum wage is that “it’s a business killer.” When the minimum wage was stagnant, ...
Read postThe Senate’s “You Better Stay Healthy” Plan
The new Senate health care plan unveiled today is more like the “You Better Stay Healthy” plan. In this upside-down version of America, insurance companies ...
Read postWaiting (and Waiting) for the Sky to Fall
Even in the current era of alternative facts there are few issues that so enthusiastically peddle in fiction more than the impact of raising the ...
Read postYou Don’t Support a Livable Wage? Wait? What?
Earlier this week during a televised debate, the two candidates running in the special election for Georgia’s 6th congressional district were asked a simple question: ...
Read postMust.Look.Away.
This morning I woke up to headlines of yet another cryptic — and since deleted — tweet from our president. You know, the one about ...
Read postAli vs. Trump: Who’s Done More to Raise Up Working People?
Donald Trump is President of the United States. Ali is a waitress in Maine. So, who has done more to fight for working people and ...
Read post#SaveTheWage: Protect Minimum Wage Raises from Corporate Lobbyists and Lawyers
The same election that brought us Trump’s White House also brought hope to more than 2 million Americans earning low wages. In Arizona, Colorado, Maine, ...
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