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Women working full-time year-round are paid only 77 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts....
Written by Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and Jo-Ann Mort, writer and CEO of ChangeCommunications....
Yesterday we read in Isaiah the famous line, “Is this not the fast I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?" ...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R), who has a history of restricting workers’ rights in his state and who is facing a recall election in two months, signed the repeal of the Equal Pay Enforcement...
Poverty is a problem in America. This morning the Census released data on people living in poverty in 2011.
A little less than three weeks ago, activists, students, and others began to gather in Liberty Plaza, a few blocks north of Wall Street. Together, they formed the seeds of Occupy Wall Street, a...
Newly-elected Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has submitted a so-called "budget repair bill" to the state legislature to address a budget crisis that he claims the state is facing. In fact, the non...
It is often said that campaign finance reform is the reform that makes all other reform possible. While some may dismiss the connection between political spending and policy outcomes as merely...
Rabbi Dena Feingold of Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha, Wisconsin delivered a sermon entitled "Echoes of the Exodus Story in Wisconsin" on February 25, 2011. In it, she reflects on similarities...
A letter coordinated by the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and signed by 16 Wisconsin Rabbis from across the denominational spectrum, including representatives of every Reform...
Last Wednesday night, the Wisconsin State Senate in extraordinary fashion pushed through controversial legislation that strips state employees of their collective bargaining rights, which...
On Wednesday night the legislative supporters of Governor Scott Walker's recently adopted "budget repair bill," which stripped public employees of collective bargaining rights, held a fundraiser at...
On March 25, 1911, 146 garment workers, most of them women and most of them Eastern European Jewish immigrants, died in New York City's worst industrial disaster--the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory...
Today is Equal Pay Day, the day when women finally catch up to what their male counterparts made the previous year. As part of our participation in today's blogging campaign, here are a few...
Maine legislators are currently considering two bills, which would roll back child labor protections in the state. LD 1346 would create a subminimum wage of $5.25 an hour (the state's minimum wage...
It is often said that states are the "laboratories of democracy" because innovative ideas take shape at the state level before being adapted by the country as a whole. Teddy Roosevelt, however,...
Harri Plotnick is an intern at the Religious Action Center. She belongs to Congregration Keneseth Israel, where she also teaches religious school.The product of 40 years of feminist work since...
We read about labor in this week’s parsha in more than one way. In the short span of Vayetze, a total of twelve children come into the world. Not to mention the fourteen years of labor Jacob...
Genesis teaches that every person is created in the Divine image. Knowing that, we are instructed to greet each person as if we were greeting God. Yet, too often, we don’t greet others at all; we...
The economy added a sparse 120,000 jobs in March, according to the jobs report released last week, the weakest such numbers in nearly half a year.
Amid another lag in the economic recovery, times have become still harder for many Americans these past few weeks.
