Global Working Blues

Inequity Workers

Marble Falls        Reading the polls, one of the takeaways, and it’s a big one, is that for all of the strengths of the economy, many people aren’t feeling it.  Inflation in the basic grocery basket and housing costs are the major reasons. Prices are rising more slowly on food items, but rents are still …

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Overtime Up, Minimum Wage Frozen

Dollar Stores Minimum Wage Workers

            New Orleans       The Department of Labor has now issued its final rule for wage and salary levels that define eligibility for overtime payments at time-and-a-half of the hourly wage.  After years of being stuck at a relatively low threshold, the needle moved during the Obama administration, but the even more worker-friendly Biden administration …

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