It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

I continue to believe, and Trump has cleverly put fear on the ballot and fear in the eyes of folks, and my parents taught me that if you blow out your neighbor's candle, it doesn't make your candle shine any brighter.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

One of the things the Democratic Party is trying to do is take the word off-year out of our lexicon, because we've tended to be an accordion as a party. We expand in the presidentials; we shrink in between; and we scratch our head and wonder why we lose midterms.

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.