Little Rock The President in his fifth State of the Union address said that he would issue an executive order raising the minimum hourly wage for workers employed under federal subcontracts to $10.10 per hour, the same number that he and many others have been advocating on the stair step proposal for the federal minimum …
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Looking at Metropolitan Areas for an Understanding of Declining Union Strength
New Orleans More than a decade ago I spent a lot of time with Joel Rogers, longtime professor of law, sociology, and political science at the University of Wisconsin, analyzing the fact that cities and metro areas were still the last bastions of union strength, and that was where we needed to make our stand. Some …
Swiss and NWRO Have Right Ideas for Ending Poverty in Income Guarantees
New Orleans In an assessment of the “war on poverty” almost 50 years after President Lyndon Johnson sounded the battle cry, Eduardo Porter in the Times noted that the real progress has only been to move the enemy lines from 19% of the American people to 16% of the population. Part of the problem is …