
Tag: wages

I want you to sit down. Then I want you to hang with me as I explain this impossible argument. What if….now get on that fainting couch….we solved the worker shortage in low-wage jobs by
I wonder if there’s something employers could do to get workers into available jobs? Imagine….what if there was an incentive such as higher wages or better hours that could convince empowe

Jake Rosenfeld has a useful list of myths told about wages and other forms of compensation that serve to undermine workers ability to fight for more. The vast majority of U.S. workers say the quality
We Americans love to tell ourselves a story about how Black people were oppressed and then the Civil Rights Movement happened and Rosa Parks refused to move and Martin Luther King gave a speech and th

The unemployment rate is a pretty bad way to evaluate the state of the economy. In 2000, when the jobless rate last fell below 4%, corporate profits totaled 8.3% of national income. Wages & salari
I know I’m shocked that rich people are taking their tax cut and investing in their own stock portfolios. Six months after the Tax Cut and Jobs Act became law, there’s still little evidenc
Bank of America downgrades Chipotle because the chain pays its workers too much. The chain pays its entry-level workers a bit over $9 an hour. This is evidently unacceptable in modern American capital
I enjoyed reading this profile of Boston Red Sox organist Josh Kantor, largely because he’s a player in the larger New England music scene and sat in for most of the Drive-By Truckers’ sho
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