Univision Report Reveals Downside of Hiking Minimum Wage
June 3rd, 2014 6:13 PM
Liberals have long been used to dominating the narrative in news coverage of wage and poverty-related issues. The liberal perspective, in terms of what policies best represent the interests of workers and the economy as a whole, sometimes goes entirely unchallenged.
A welcome exception to the rule occurred during the June 2 edition of Noticiero Univisión, however, when correspondent Liliana…
NBC Hails 'Landmark' Minimum Wage Hike in Seattle as 'Historic Victory
June 3rd, 2014 12:12 PM
In a brief on Tuesday's NBC Today, news anchor Natalie Morales portrayed a minimum wage hike in Seattle as the first step toward a nationwide increase: "Well, with talks across the country ongoing about boosting the minimum wage, workers in Seattle are soon going to be seeing a big boost....The Seattle city council passed an ordinance Monday that bumps the minimum wage up to $15 an hour. That's…
Column: The Rich List and the West's Culture of Envy
May 28th, 2014 5:34 PM
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- In the 1970s, while working as a low-paid cub reporter in Houston, Texas, I always looked forward to the annual Christmas catalogs from Neiman-Marcus and Sakowitz, a local luxury department store. Both contained outrageously expensive things that only the super-rich could afford -- his and hers Thunderbirds stick in my memory. My wife and I couldn't wait to thumb…
AP's Raum: Almost 700 Words on Historic Growth in Temps and Contract W
May 19th, 2014 5:50 PM
In July 2013, the Associated Press's Christopher Rugaber finally noticed the meteoric rise in the number of temporary help service and other non-payroll personnel working at U.S. employers — a trend which at the time was about 2-1/2 years old. Rugaber noted that "temps and to a much larger universe of freelancers, contract workers and consultants ... number nearly 17 million people who have…
Abramson Firing: Did NY Times Forget to Read Its 90 Pieces on Equal Pa
May 15th, 2014 4:03 PM
Is “The Gray Lady” that way because the sexist owners of The New York Times won’t pay her enough for a proper dye job? This and other delightfully schadenfreude-alicious questions are worth pondering now that the paper has “unexpectedly” fired executive editor Jill Abramson on May 14.
Abramson stepped into that role on September 2011, becoming the first female executive edtior at the Times,…
Lefty Propagandists Viciously Attack McDonalds, Push Wage Hikes
May 5th, 2014 3:05 PM
Trust liberals to combine “tasteless” with something as tasty as McDonald’s. In a May 1 video entitled “You Salt My Fries, I’ll Salt Yours,” progressives at The Agenda Project Action Fund blasted McDonald’s for allegedly underpaying its workers and opposing minimum wage hikes. The video made misleading claims about the minimum wage, while employing class warfare to viciously attack business…
Imagine That: Even Politico Questions Whether the Economy Is Set to 'P
May 5th, 2014 9:34 AM
In stark contrast to the celebratory "AMERICAN ECONOMY BOUNCES BACK FROM BRUTAL WINTER" headline Friday afternoon at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, Ben White's "Morning Money" report at the Politico is notably concerned about whether Friday's "vexing jobs report" justifies the kind of optimism the AP conveyed with seeming finality in its headline.
To be fair, the…
AP Pair Create a Math Problem In Projecting 2014 Growth of 'Nearly Thr
May 4th, 2014 9:56 AM
In a Friday afternoon dispatch issued in the wake of the government's jobs report earlier that day, Christopher Rugaber and Josh Boak at the Associated Press wrote that "most economists ... forecast a strong rebound in economic growth - to a 3.5 percent annual rate in the current April-June quarter. And growth should reach nearly 3 percent for the full year, up from 1.9 percent in 2013, they…
MSNBC's Sharpton: GOP 'Demonizes the Working Class
April 30th, 2014 8:23 PM
On the Wednesday, April 30, PoliticsNation, Al Sharpton charged that the Republican Party "demonizes the working class" and that GOPers "attack the working poor" as the MSNBC host trashed Republicans for opposing a minimum wage increase. [See video below.]
NYT Runs Lefty Group's Evidence of 'Fast-Food Recovery' in Wages on Pa
April 29th, 2014 1:44 PM
The National Employment Law Project claims that it is dedicated to "working to restore the promise of economic opportunity in the 21st century economy." That sounds promising, but one look at NELP's directors and the supposed "solutions" the group and its friends advocate — e.g., higher minimum wage, "uphold the freedom to join a union." etc. It's clear that NELP is just another lefty advocacy…
NBC's Martha White: 39 Paragraphs on All-Time Record Number of Temps
April 21st, 2014 11:25 PM
If there's a prize for most words spent in Obamacare avoidance, NBC News's Martha C. White is definitely in the running.
White managed to burn through almost 40 paragraphs and nearly 1,600 words in a report carried at CNBC on the all-time record number of workers employed by temporary help services. But she somehow managed to completely avoid mentioning Obamacare, which used to be known as…
CBS Host Bob Schieffer Asks ‘Are Republicans Against Equal Pay For W
April 13th, 2014 2:35 PM
CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer seems to have fallen for the liberal lie that women get paid 77 percent of what their male counterparts earn as was evident during an interview with Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
Blackburn appeared with Schieffer on Sunday April 13 and was accused of being against equal pay: “Are Republicans against equal pay for women and is that going to be a…
Mika: Gender Pay Gap 'Far Worse' Than
April 10th, 2014 8:40 AM
Democrats have clung to the claim that women earn 77% of what men do with religious fervor, as evidenced by the "religious revival, Praise Jesus" atmosphere at President Obama's equal pay event at the White House earlier this week.
But although the 77% figure has been thoroughly debunked, on today's Morning Joe Mika Brzezinski alleged that the real gap is actually "far worse." Mika made her…
One Day After Discrediting Gender Pay Gap, CBS Brings on Obama Ally to
April 9th, 2014 3:20 PM
After CBS White House correspondent Major Garrett thoroughly dismantled White House rhetoric on the supposed "pay gap" between men and women on Tuesday, only twenty-four hours later, CBS This Morning brought on a guest to push the same false talking points unchallenged. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] On Wednesday, with footage rolling of President Obama signing…
