Month: October 2015

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Whole Paycheck: Whole Foods Market co-CEO and co-founder John Mackey has never hidden his disdain for labor unions. “Today most employees feel that unions are not necessary to represent them,” he told my colleague Josh Harkinson in 2013. That same year, Mackey echoed the sentiment in an interview with Yahoo Finance’s the Daily Ticker. “Why […]

Adjuncted to Death

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On October 4, 2015

You may have heard about the Duquense University adjunct who died in dire poverty in 2013. Well it’s happened again, this time to a long-term adjunct at Seattle University. When visitors walked

The Waitress Life

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On October 4, 2015

Waitresses: combining low wages and sexual harassment with the gendered pay gap for a very, very long time. The low wages compounded by the gender wage gap breeds a system of living paycheck to payche

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The Administrative State

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On October 4, 2015
Mike Konczal has a really smart essay in the Boston Review about the history of the administrative state that you all should read. Basically, unlike modern conservative mythology that states that the rise of Big Government is something that comes out of the Progressive Era and New Deal that undermined traditional American small government, in […]
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