Category Archives: Correspondence

November 3rd, 2015 Dear Dr. Carson,   Over the past year, there have been advances in wages for workers. Many cities and states have increased their minimum wages providing millions of impoverished of Americans with a long-overdue raise. But at the federal level, progress is nonexistent. Because of party infighting, futile “Obamacare” repeal efforts and […]

10/26/15 Dear Representative Over the past year, there have been significant advances in wages for working-class Americans. Many cities and states have increased their minimum wages providing millions of Americans with a long-overdue raise. In Congress, however, progress is nonexistent. Between party infighting, futile “Obamacare” repeal efforts and corporate lobbying, there has been too little […]

Senator Mitch McConnell 317 Russell Senate Office Building U.S. Senate Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable John Boehner Speaker of the House H-232, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Speaker Boehner and Senator McConnell, In your comments after the Republican midterm victories last week, both of you struck a conciliatory tone, pledging to lead your now-bicameral […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement by Ralph Nader on Colorado Senate Race: “Cory Gardner: Fringe on the Minimum Wage” Over the years, Cory Gardner has not held back from letting Coloradans know how staunchly opposed he is to minimum wage raises. In 2006, he opposed a ballot initiative to raise the Colorado minimum wage. In 2007, […]

Tim Cook CEO, Apple 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 October 23, 2014 Dear Mr. Cook, “Designed by Apple in California” has a nicer ring to it than “Assembled by workers paid about a dollar per hour, working 11­hour shifts, and sleeping eight to a room in the Jabil Circuit corporate dormitories in Wuxi, China.” […]