Honor America's Workers and Build a Healthy Economy: Raise the Minimum Wage

	Holly Sklar

Holly Sklar is a nominee for Progressive Secretary of Labor on the Backbone Cabinet. Ms. Sklar is a widely published op-ed columnist and author. She is coauthor of a new report, A Just Minimum Wage: Good for Workers, Business and Our Future, which makes a powerful economic and ethical case for raising the minimum wage and moving the United States from a low-road economy to the high road (www.letjusticeroll.org).

Sklar is also coauthor of Raise The Floor: Wages and Policies That Work For All Of Us, which Barbara Ehrenreich calls, "A commanding work and powerful tool for the living wage movement." Her other books include Chaos or Community? Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics, hailed as "a tour-de-force of accessible economics and social analysis," and Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood, the widely taught story of how the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative is rebuilding a long impoverished Boston community as a dynamic urban village. Sklar's first book, Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management, foretold the global corporate economy before "globalization" was a buzzword. She is a contributor to numerous high school and college text anthologies and is a frequent guest on talk radio.

At a time when immigration rights advocates, living wage activists, and critics of globalization seem to be seeking the power of common ground, we are honored to have Holly Sklar as our guest on Conversations with the Cabinet. As a companion piece to this discussion, we recommend that you read her recent article, "Wanted: A High-Road Economy," at Tompaine.com.

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