$15 Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty But Cost Jobs, CBO Says
From today’s NPR News Online: Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would increase wages for at least 17 million people, but also put 1.4 million…
From today’s NPR News Online: Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would increase wages for at least 17 million people, but also put 1.4 million…
From today’s Harvard Gazette: As the economy reopens after the COVID-19 shutdowns, businesses are taking a varied, often patchwork approach to ensuring health and safety for their workers, and much…
From The Guardian Online: Wildcat strikes, walkouts and protests over working conditions have erupted across the US throughout the coronavirus pandemic as “essential” workers have demanded better pay and safer…
From today’s PBS NewsHour Online: Roughly 26 million have filed for unemployment benefits in the United States the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of others are risking safety to…
From today’s Boston.com: Elizabeth Warren says the next coronavirus relief package should “put all workers front and center.” But the Massachusetts senator is also proposing a slate of new protections…
From today’s Washington Post: Major supermarket chains are beginning to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths, leading to store closures and increasing anxiety among grocery workers as the pandemic intensifies…
From today’s New York Times: Both the irony and the symbolism were evident as members of the California Future of Work Commission gathered in a virtual meeting, hastily rescheduled in…
From today’s Los Angeles Times: I love working from home. I learned this week that this is apparently a controversial stance. The unfolding coronavirus crisis is forcing many of us…
From NPR News Online: Companies around the world are embracing what might seem like a radical idea: a four-day workweek. The concept is gaining ground in places as varied as…
From today’s New York Times: Laurence Berland had just gotten out of the subway in New York, some 3,000 miles from his desk in San Francisco, when he learned that…