Does Tenure Protect Bad Teachers or Good Schools?
From today’s NYT “Room for Debate”: Teacher tenure laws deprive public school students of their right to an education by making it difficult to remove bad teachers, a California judge…
The Downward Ramp
From NYT’s “Opinion” by Thomas Edsall: With the bursting of the tech bubble at the start of the 21st century, two decades of growth at the high end of the…
Room for Debate: Overcoming the New Low-Wage Economy
From the NYT “Room for Debate” by Robert Reich: By raising its minimum wage to $15, Seattle is leading a long-overdue movement toward a living wage. Most minimum wage workers…
Breaking News: Seattle adopts $15 minimum wage, setting standard
From today’s NYT’s by Kirk Johnson: SEATTLE — The City Council here went where no big-city lawmakers have gone before on Monday, raising the local minimum wage to $15 an…
Editorial: “Why You Hate Work”
From NYT “SundayReview” by TONY SCHWARTZ and CHRISTINE PORAT: THE way we’re working isn’t working. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job, you’re probably not very excited to…
Republicans’ War on Workers’ Rights
From the New York Times blog “The Great Divide” by Corey Robin: Midterm elections are like fancy software: Experts love them, end-users couldn’t care less. But if the 2010 elections…
No Accounting Skills? No Moral Reckoning
From NYT’s “The Great Divide” Blog by Jacob Soll: “A population well-versed in double-entry accounting will not immediately solve our complex financial problems, but it would allow average citizens to…
Brookings study finds income inequality in America’s largest cities
From the Brookings Institute “Metropolitan Opportunity Series” Papers: In December 2013, President Obama gave a speech on economic mobility, in which he called income inequality and lack of upward mobility…
Outrage Over Wall Street Pay, but Shrugs for Silicon Valley?
From the New York Times Blog “DealBook” by Steven Davidoff: Big paydays on Wall Street often come under laserlike scrutiny, while Silicon Valley gets a pass on its own compensation…
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Minimum Wage Increase Would Have Mixed Effects, CBO Report Says
From the New York Times by Annie Lowrey: A popular Democratic proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, championed by President Obama, could reduce total employment by…