Wages & Hours

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Living Wage Campaign

2009

Solution to Unemployment: Pay People to Work Shorter Hours

Dean Baker : Employment/Unemployment

There is an easy way to get unemployed workers back to work: pay them to work shorter hours.
Flawed Flu Prescription

Heather Boushey : Health & Disease

It's easy for government to tell parents to keep their kids with flu symptoms home--but what if they can't afford to miss work?
Beyond Rubinomics

Jeff Madrick : U.S. Economy

If we stimulate the economy and maintain high rates of growth, higher wages will create the savings required for investment.

2008

Starting Out Means a Steeper Climb

Steven Greenhouse

Young workers have it a lot tougher than their parents did.
The Bare Minimum

Eric Schlosser : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left

Today's relentless arguments against a higher minimum wage suggest that Roosevelt's battle is not yet won.

2007

Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King

Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Agriculture

The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?

Steve Early & Suzanne Gordon : Democratic Party

Americans spend more time on the job than workers in any other country. Isn't it time presumably labor-friendly Democrats did something about it?
Cleaning Up After the Orioles

Dave Zirin : Sports

Thanks to some major-league grassroots organizing, workers who keep Baltimore's Camden Yards pristine are close to winning the right to a living wage.
Travails of the Super-Rich

Barbara Ehrenreich : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability

Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
The Missing Class

Eyal Press : Ethical Economics

Sociologist Katherine Newman talks about the "near poor," that vast pool of workers who are neither officially destitute nor comfortably working-class.
What We Owe the Working Poor

Annette Bernhardt : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court's recent decision to deny home-care workers the right to overtime pay is speeding a race to the bottom that will affect every working person.
Tough Luck, Ladies

Katha Pollitt : Supreme Court

The Roberts Court rules that six months into being screwed by your boss, pay discrimination is your own damn fault.
CEOs vs. Slaves

Barbara Ehrenreich : Gap Between Wealth & Poverty

New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and temporary attorneys.
Morality of the Minimum

Katrina vanden Heuvel & Sam Graham-Felsen : Electoral Politics

Let Justice Roll deserves credit for mobilizing values voters around minimum wage initiatives.

2006

The New Democratic Populism

Christopher Hayes : Democratic Party

Economic populism was the most underreported story of the midterms and will be the cornerstone of any new Democratic majority.
The Moral Minimum

Sasha Abramsky

As the lagging minimum wage is being turned into a moral issue instead of an economic one, states are beginning to act where the federal government has not.
The Growing Wage Gap

Jeff Madrick : U.S. Economy

A winning economic strategy for Democrats: Push for realistic policies to relieve workers' frustrations, rebuild their damaged confidence and improve lifetime security.

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