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Commentary Sklar: Corporate executives overpaid, undertaxed

Commentary, February, 15 2009 Holly Sklar
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In today's mad world, underpaid workers are bailing out banks and corporations run by overpaid, undertaxed bosses who milked their companies and our country like cash cows.

Commentary Sklar: Minimum wage raise too little, too late

Commentary, August, 04 2008 Holly Sklar
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Minimum wage workers have been stuck in a losing game of "Mother May I" with the federal government. Workers step forward when the government says yes to raising the minimum wage. Workers step backward when the cost of living increases, but the mi...

Commentary Sklar: Tax Day Gifts for the Rich

Commentary, May, 02 2008 Holly Sklar
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When it comes to cutting taxes for the wealthy, President Bush can truly say, "Mission accomplished."

Commentary Sklar: Billionaires Up, America Down

Commentary, November, 09 2007 Holly Sklar
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When it comes to producing billionaires, America is doing great.

Commentary Sklar: Pay CEOs less, minimum wage workers more

Commentary, August, 12 2007 Holly Sklar
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Minimum wage workers made $5.15 an hour when Harry Potter became a sensation a decade ago, and nothing more until July 24, three days after the final Harry Potter book release.

Commentary Sklar: Minimum wage breaks no-raise record

Commentary, December, 29 2006 Holly Sklar
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Every year, PNC Wealth Management calculates the "Christmas Price Index" based on gifts in the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas." PNC reports, "Maids-a-Milking, who are paid the minimum wage, were the only service providers not to see an increa...

Commentary Sklar: Economy booming for billionaires

Commentary, October, 04 2006 Holly Sklar
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Millionaires are so last millennium. The new Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is billionaires only.

Commentary Sklar: Congress Values Own Paychecks More Than Workers

Commentary, July, 15 2006 Holly Sklar
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Members of Congress like to talk about values. They sure don't mean the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Commentary Sklar: Warning: Tax Cuts For Rich Harm Nation's Health

Commentary, April, 28 2006 Holly Sklar
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Did you get a $1 million dollar cut in your taxes?

Commentary Sklar: King Would Tell Congress To Value Workers

Commentary, February, 01 2006 Holly Sklar
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on the brink of the Great Depression and died fighting for the right of workers to earn a decent living.

Commentary Sklar: Carving Up Our Economic Pie

Commentary, December, 22 2005 Holly Sklar
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Pie season is here. Pumpkin, apple, cherry, whatever you like. We can use edible pie charts -- and some chocolate -- to see how our national economic pie is being carved up more unfairly.

Commentary Sklar: Growing Gulf Between Rich And Rest Of Us

Commentary, October, 24 2005 Holly Sklar
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Guess which country the CIA World Factbook describes when it says, "Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20 percent of households."

Commentary Sklar: Time For Health Care For All On Medicare's 40th Anniversary

Commentary, August, 13 2005 Holly Sklar
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When Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law in the summer of 1965, former President Harry Truman received the first Medicare card. He would be shocked that 40 years later, more than 45 million Americans have no health coverage, half of all per...

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