From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): We recently passed another kind of Mother’s Day. The kind where you might want to bang your head on your desk because it’s Moms’ Equal Pay Day. Yup, that one…again – the day marking how far … Continued
Posted at https://www.epi.org/blog/seven-facts-about-tipped-workers-and-the-tipped-minimum-wage/ Posted May 31, 2018 at 4:40 pm by Elise Gould and David Cooper As debate continues on a referendum to raise the tipped minimum wage in Washington, D.C., to the minimum wage for nearly all other workers, we wanted to take … Continued
From Keystone Research Center (http://www.keystoneresearch.org): We want to tell you and other long-term supporters of the Keystone Research Center and the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center about our new project that we launched today — We The People. Please sign … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): A statewide poll commissioned by the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, a project of the Keystone Research Center, shows strong support in Pennsylvania for raising the minimum wage. The poll conducted in … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/03/15/18119/#.Wqq1TGrwYdU By Lecia Imbery March 15, 2018 Only 27 percent of unemployed workers received unemployment insurance in 2016 – a near historic low – according to a recent report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP). The report also found that … Continued
From Interfaith Worker Justice (http://www.iwj.org): Everyday, a quarter of a million people head to a brutal job: processing poultry in meat packing plants across the country. Processing poultry is particularly harsh, with workers forced to make the same two or … Continued
Published on Thursday, March 08, 2018 by Washington Post Recent wage growth has been best in states where minimums were raised By Jared Bernstein The analysis underscores what by now should be a pretty simple intuition: Lifting wages…. lifts wages. … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): For decades, our right to collectively negotiate a fair return on our work has been under attack. Whether it is so-called “right-to-work” laws, or legal attempts to undermine collective bargaining rights―corporate lobbyists seek to … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): In December, Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced a proposed rule, which would allow restaurant owners to pocket the tips of millions of tipped workers. EPI estimates that the new rule would result … Continued
From National Employment Law Project (http://www.nelp.org/(: Congratulations. If you were among the hundreds of thousands of people who submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Labor on its proposal to let employers take workers’ tips, your voice has been heard … Continued