By Kris Warner It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from Houston, Texas, where we’re hoping for vegan taco trucks on every corner. Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk is out sick. This week’s Lunch Pail is dedicated to the workers at the Center for Community Change who joined our

By Mike Elk The striking thing about being a recent northern immigrant to the South is how often I walk into a bar and hear people talking about Bernie Sanders. As an outsider to the region (I’m a native of the East End of Pittsburgh), I sometimes find it

CounterSpin ran a special Labor Day episode on Friday that included a 2012 interview with Payday Report Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk. The program is produced by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and broadcast on over 130 noncommercial radio stations across the nation. Elk discussed how intellectuals and even people

For this Labor Day weekend, JP brings us a new song he wrote, dedicated to his son and his brothers and sisters at work. If you’d like to buy any of JP’s music, you can do so here. Happy Labor Day! Lyrics: This pencil that I wear in