Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Democracy's High Stakes


Pay 2 Play follows filmmaker John Ennis' quest to find a way out from under the "Pay 2 Play System," where politicians reward their donors with even larger sums from the public treasury — through contracts, tax cuts, and deregulation.  Along the way, he journeys through high drama on the Ohio campaign trail, uncovers the secret history of the game Monopoly, and explores the underworld of Los Angeles street-art on a humorous odyssey that reveals how much of a difference one person can make. Pay 2 Play is the layman’s guidebook to taking back our democracy.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Low Pay Is Not Okay!



"According to a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the CEOs of America's top 25 restaurant corporations, including McDonald's, Burger King, the Cheesecake Factory, Chipotle, and Jack in the Box, took home an average of 721 times the money minimum-wage workers did, and 194 times the take-home pay of the typical American worker in a production or nonsupervisory job. Restaurants and food services employ nearly half of all American workers who earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour (or less)."

Quote from Mother Jones (July 14th, 2014)