Category: Jobs and Growth
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How A Supreme Court Case Puts Equality in the Workplace At Stake
An adverse ruling in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association \”would undermine one of the most successful vehicles\” for providing equal opportunity for American workers, rights organizations tell the Supreme Court.
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A Surprisingly Positive Jobs Report That Shouldn\’t Make Us Complacent
Lurking behind these numbers is the real danger that the Federal Reserve will join congressional Republicans in putting brakes on economic growth just as its benefits are beginning to reach the left behind.
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Here\’s One Way to Tell Businesses To Either Pay Fair or Pay Up
If worker advocates succeed in getting a county ordinance passed, Chicago businesses with low-paid workers would have to start shouldering the cost of the social services their employees are forced to rely on.
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Standing In Solidarity With Low-Wage Workers At the U.S. Senate
On Wednesday, Senate staffers made a point of showing that they understand what low-wage cafeteria workers are struggling with. A petition drive is ongoing to call for their right to collective bargaining.
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Jobs Report: Conservative Economic Illusions Are Unmasked
The surprisingly disappointing September unemployment report should break once and for all two illusions about our ability to sustain a robust economy, and give us an opportunity to change the conservation.
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Atlanta Fed Suggests We\’re Still Far From Full Employment
Is 5.1 percent unemployment about as good as it will ever get? Two researchers at the Atlanta Fed propose another measure of the job market that suggests we still have a ways to go.
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The Fed Gets It Right. Now Let\’s Move to Full Employment
The Federal Reserve took off the table the immediate fear that a rate hike would set in motion a slowing down of economic growth. But there\’s a longer-term issue of reclaiming the definition of \”full employment\”
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Labor Day: Fighting For Workers So They Can Fight For Themselves
Attacks from the right on the ability of workers to organize are a fundamental factor in the national debate we should be having over income inequality and how to address it.
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More Proof Workers Are More Productive But Less Rewarded
Worker productivity in the second quarter of 2015 was better than expected, according to data released today, but a report underscores how little of the gains are shared by productive workers.
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Business Lobby Is Denied Overtime To Kill Overtime Rule
Business lobbying organizations like the National Retail Federation had been lobbying fiercely to get the Department of Labor to extend the comment period beyond Friday. They failed.