March 30, 2021 New Orleans Two weeks ago, speaking to a NPR reporter based in Birmingham, Alabama, I told him that it was unlikely that the union, RWDSU, would win in the Amazon election, but that even a loss might be good for the US labor movement. I suspected …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Women’s Rough Road
March 29, 2021 New Orleans Near the top of the list of fundamental social changes over the last fifty years has been the improved role of women in society. The gains in the workplace, though still inadequate, have been sweeping, as wage gaps continue to narrow and barriers to jobs from soldier to science …
Beating the Taxman and Making the Rich Pay
March 28, 2021 Pearl River A bunch of researchers led by the London School of Economics, allowed access to Internal Revenue Service tax reporting data, issued a report card on how well the rich were doing in dealing with the taxman. The short summary is that are winning even bigger than we – and the …