What We Just Went Through Wasn’t an Election. It Was a Hostage Situation.
From today’s New York Times: Heading into Tuesday’s vote, a large majority of voters said that the country was on the wrong track and that they were disappointed with the…
Workers Mark May Day with Global Rallies for Better Working Conditions
From today’s NPR News Online: Demonstrators across the globe seized May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, as a moment to celebrate working-class contributions as they rallied for better…
How the Coronavirus Could Create a New Working Class
From today’s Atlantic Online: Late last month, a photo circulated of delivery drivers crowding around Carbone, a Michelin-starred Greenwich Village restaurant, waiting to pick up $32 rigatoni and bring it…
Pay Is Rising Fastest for Low Earners. One Reason? Minimum Wages.
From today’s New York Times: These days, wages in the United States are doing something extraordinary: They’re growing faster at the bottom than at the top. In fact, recent growth…
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For 53 million Americans stuck in low-wage jobs, the road out is hard
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Unemployment is hovering near a five-decade low, workforce participation is at the highest level in six years and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell recently…
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Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers
From today’s New York Times: The United States is the only advanced industrial nation that doesn’t have national laws guaranteeing paid maternity leave. It is also the only advanced economy…
The $70,000-a-Year Minimum Wage
From today’s New York Times: Staff members gasped four years ago when Dan Price gathered the 120 employees at Gravity Payments, the company he had founded with his brother, and…
The Old Rules of the Workplace Aren’t Working. At Least Not for Women.
From today’s New York Times: Despite clear gains by women in so many aspects of society over the decades, their progress in the workplace seems to have stalled. It is…
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The stock market boom has given CEOs a raise. What about average workers?
From today’s PBS News Hour: Over the past few years, many economic indicators have returned to where they were before the Great Recession — among them, the unemployment rate, which…
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Opinion: When Companies Supersize, Paychecks of Workers Shrink
From today’s New York Times: Anyone with a cellphone should have paid attention to the big merger news on April 29: T-Mobile and Sprint announced their intention to tie the…