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Barack Obama and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Wage growth slows under Trump

Igor Derysh
Workers protest against Google's handling of sexual misconduct allegations at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. Google is promising to be more forceful and open about its handling of sexual misconduct cases, a week after high-paid engineers and others walked out in protest over its male-dominated culture. CEO Sundar Pichai spelled out the concessions in an email sent Thursday, Nov. 8, to Google employees. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

How employers thwart unions

Nicole Karlis
2018 XMAS Time In NYC- The subway offers a warm sanctuary to the record number of tens thousands of homeless people in various states of deteriorating health who move about in the margins mostly ignored. (Bob Hennelly)

A Dickensian Christmas in NYC

Bob Hennelly
Cynthia Nixon (AP/Seth Wenig)

Can progressives turn away from unions?

Bob Hennelly
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Employment hype masks a real crisis

Robert Hennelly
An Amazon.com employee at their Fernley, Nev., warehouse. (AP/Scott Sady)

Amazon warehouses don’t boost economy

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

The Labor Dept wants to steal your tips

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

There goes that raise

Michael Arria - In These Times
(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

The case for strong unions

Angelo Young
Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg, Mike Pence, Donald Trump and Peter Thiel meet at Trump Tower in New York, December 14, 2016. (Getty/Timothy A. Clary)

CEOS rake it in

John Light - BillMoyers.com
(AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Biased minimum wage study

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump; Paul Ryan (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Getty/Olivier Douliery/Kevin Hagen/Montage by Salon)

A tale of two budgets

Paul Rosenberg
Donald Trump (AP/Gerry Broome)

Trump's infra-scheme: Sad!

Simon Maloy
(Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Shutterstock/Salon)

Trump's tax dodge: it's legal

Simon Maloy
Donald Trump (Reuters/Mike Segar)

Trump's child care policy

Simon Maloy
Donald Trump (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

Trump's awful child care plan

Simon Maloy
(Reuters/Chris Keane)

gig economy workers screwed

Julie Gutman Dickinson - Capital & Main
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-66811p1.html'>Rob Byron</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

How low wages screw us all

Elias Isquith

The gender wage gap is real

Elias Isquith
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-64260p1.html'>Syda Productions</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Grim news for women grads

Katie McDonough
Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Jeb Bush (Reuters/AP/Sara Stathas/Kevin Lamarque/Stephan Savoia/David Manning)

Meet the inequality posers

Simon Maloy
Sam Walton (AP/Reuters/Eric Thayer/photo montage by Salon)

Walton family's big rip-off

Elias Isquith
(Reuters/Darren Hauck)

Child labor makes a comeback

Josh Eidelson
(AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

Paul Buchheit - Alternet