Houston The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new rule has survived numerous delays, Congressional attacks offset by a threatened veto, and huge corporate pushback to finally find dry ground and take effect. We have not seen the corporate equivalent of the zombie apocalypse, so the country still stands. For all the hype the rule itself …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Residential Segregation and Upward Mobility
New Orleans Reports of a new study by economists Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz looking more deeply at the earning records of millions of families who moved to different addresses found that “poor children who grow up in some cities and towns have sharply higher odds of escaping poverty than similar poor children …
Bakken Oil Trains: Bombs on Wheels in our Cities
New Orleans The Department of Transportation and the Federal Railway Administration along with the government of Canada have issued new rules for oil tankers on trains, strengthening the tank cars and requiring installation of new brakes in coming years. It is not just because there is so much oil moving from Bakken oil formation underlying Montana, …