KY Gets OK To Require Work From Medicaid Recipients, Most Already Do
From National Public Radio: Poor residents in Kentucky will have to work or do volunteer work if they want to keep their Medicaid benefits after the Trump administration on Friday…
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Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From New York Times: From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming…
Labor Board Reverses Ruling That Helped Workers Fight Large Chains
From today’s New York Times: The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday overturned a key Obama-era precedent that had given workers significant leverage in challenging companies like fast-food and hotel…
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Proof Retail Jobs Don’t Need to Be Bad
From today’s New York Times by Eduardo Porter Bethamy Magrow is grateful that the minimum wage in New York City is rising to $13 at the end of next month.…
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A Better Deal for American Workers
From today’s New York Times by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY): Americans are clamoring for bold changes to our politics and our economy. They feel, rightfully, that both systems are rigged…
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Is the Gig Economy Working?—For Some, But Not For Most Workers
From this month’s The New Yorker magazine by Nathan Heller: The American workplace is both a seat of national identity and a site of chronic upheaval and shame. The industry…
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The Great Wage Slowdown of the 21st Century
From today’s NYT “UpShot” Blog by David Leonhardt: American workers have been receiving meager pay increases for so long now that it’s reasonable to talk in sweeping terms about the…
Summer Job Isn’t What It Used to Be
From NYT “OpTalk” Blog, September 9, 2014 by Anna Altman: Once upon a time, hard-working high school students who took a summer job or worked part-time during the school year…
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Fast-food protests: Dozens of workers are arrested in strike for higher pay
From LA Times September 4 by Shal Li, Tina Susman, and Tony Perry. Dozens of fast-food workers from Los Angeles to Manhattan were arrested as they escalated a fight for…
LA Mayor Garcetti calls for $13.25 minimum wage hike
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