The Unconscionable Push to Bring Back Child Labor
Rather than offering wages attractive to adults, employers want lawmakers to push teens into some of the most dangerous jobs in the country.
Rather than offering wages attractive to adults, employers want lawmakers to push teens into some of the most dangerous jobs in the country.
When Congress set the cap on Social Security contributions in 1983, they didn’t anticipate forty years of rising inequality. And it’s cost us — a lot.
My kids and I deserve the same consumer financial protections that higher-income Americans get.
We could afford transformative programs if we stopped throwing money at Pentagon contractors.