Wall Street Bonuses Soar By 20%, Nearly 5 Times the Increase in US Average Weekly Earnings
If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $61.75 today.
If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $61.75 today.
Efforts to narrow the racial wealth divide must address the disparities that are at the heart of our nation's founding and still run through its veins in the 21st century.
Hit hard by the Covid crisis, restaurant workers are joining with other essential workers to fight for policies at all levels of government that will allow them to live in dignity.
Civil rights leaders of the 1960s understood that without political power, racial economic gaps would persist.