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…
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…
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…
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…
NPR’s David Kestenbaum investigates the question, Does raising the minimum wage kill jobs? Here is an overview: President Obama has called for increasing the minimum wage, saying it will help…
From the New York Times Editorial Board: Republicans sputtered with outrage when the Congressional Budget Office said that immigration reform would lower the deficit, strengthen Social Security and speed up…
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…
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…
From the NYT “Economix” Blog” by Uwe Reinhardt: Last week a brouhaha erupted over a passage in Appendix C of a Congressional Budget Office report, Budget and Economic Outlook 2014-24.…
From the New York Times blog, “You’re the Boss” by Jay Goltz: A couple of weeks ago, my production manager asked me a question that I have not looked forward…
From the New York Times by Tara Siegel Bernard: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has already overcome considerable political resistance, has managed to pack some punches in the last…