Low-wage Workforce Survey
Survey: Low-wage workers gloomy about future, By Tom Raum and Jennifer Agiesta (AP), March 20, 2013, Miami Herald: “America’s lower-income workers have posted the biggest job gains since the deep...
View ArticlePaid Sick Leave – New York City
Deal reached to force paid sick leave in New York City, By Michael Barbaro and Michael M. Grynbaum, March 28, 2013, New York Times: “New York City is poised to mandate that thousands of companies...
View ArticleLA Times Report on the Tougher Workplace
The Tougher Workplace, report homepage, April 8, 2013, Los Angeles Times: “From the shop floor to the cubicle, the workplace is becoming more stressful…”
View ArticleUnemployment Claims System – Florida
State to finally replace ancient jobless-claims computer, By Jim Stratton, May 21, 2013, Orlando Sentinel: “In good news for the jobless and employers alike, the state’s 1970s-era computer that...
View ArticlePayroll Card Programs
Paid via card, workers feel sting of fees, By Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Stephanie Clifford, June 30, 2013, New York Times: “A growing number of American workers are confronting a frustrating...
View ArticleState Minimum Wage – Arizona
Arizona minimum wage to increase to $7.90 an hour, By Howard Fischer, October 16, 2013, Yuma Sun: “Come January, Arizona’s minimum wage workers will be able to afford an extra Big Mac a week. But not...
View ArticleFederal and State Minimum Wages
Raise minimum wage? One answer to income disparity, advocates say, By Brad Knickerbocker, November 9, 2013, Christian Science Monitor: “Washington is girding for another debate over raising the...
View ArticleState Minimum Wages
Maryland’s minimum wage increase would affect workers, business owners, By Jean Marbella, January 11, 2014, Baltimore Sun: “At one end of the minimum wage battle, you’ll find Marissa Greene in...
View ArticleMinimum Wage and Tipped Employees
Tipped workers get a raise, By Pamela M. Prah, April 21, 2014, Stateline: “Waiters, bartenders, hairdressers and other Minnesota workers who rely on tips got a big raise last week when the state...
View ArticleWage Theft – California
California cracks down on wage theft by employers, By Marc Lifsher, October 23, 2014, Los Angeles Times: “State regulators are wielding a new tool to combat the intractable problem of employer wage...
View ArticleState Minimum Wages
Small business in Illinois, four other states, divided over minimum wage votes, By Joyce M. Rosenberg (AP), October 29, 2014, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Workers in five states, including Illinois, could...
View ArticleInvoluntary Part-Time Employment
Part-time jobs put millions in poverty or close to it, By Patrick Gillespie, November 20, 2014, CNNMoney: “Seven million Americans are stuck in part-time jobs. They are unable to get full-time work and...
View ArticleLow-Wage Work
Low wages keep restaurant workers in cycle of poverty, By Mackensey Lunsford, November 22, 2014, Asheville Citizen-Times: “Here’s what goes into a rough shift for Andrea Bourgeois, waitress at a Mills...
View ArticleMinimum Wage – Maryland
Maryland businesses among many grappling with a higher minimum wage, By J.D. Harrison, January 5, 2015, Washington Post: “Maryland’s minimum wage was one of many that increased at the stroke of...
View ArticleState Minimum Wages
Iowa minimum wage trails neighbors, but hike unlikely, By Matthew Patane, January 11, 2015, Des Moines Register: “In South Dakota, a worker earning minimum wage gets paid $8.50 an hour — $1.25 an hour...
View ArticleState Minimum Wages
Minimum wage to rise in Alaska to $8.75 an hour, Associated Press, February 23, 2015, The Oregonian: “Alaska’s minimum wage will rise to $8.75 an hour Tuesday, giving a pay increase to thousands of...
View ArticlePaid Leave
New momentum on paid leave, in business and politics, By Claire Cain Miller, June 22, 2015, New York Times: “Oregon this month became the fourth state to pass a bill requiring that companies give...
View ArticleHealth Insurance and Low-Income Employees
Many low-income workers say ‘no’ to health insurance, By Stacy Cowley, October 19, 2015, New York Times: “When Billy Sewell began offering health insurance this year to 600 service workers at the...
View ArticlePaid Family Leave – California
Brown signs California law boosting paid family-leave benefits, By Patrick McGreevy, April 11, 2016, Los Angeles Times: “Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed a bill expanding California’s pioneering...
View ArticleWage Theft – Ohio
Wage theft report finds many in Ohio paid below minimum wage, By Olivera Perkins, May 11, 2017, Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Ohio ranked second among large states for the share of workers whose employers...
View ArticleMinimum Wage – Seattle, WA
Latest study: Seattle’s wage law lifted restaurant pay without shrinking jobs, By Janet I. Tu, June 20, 2017, Seattle Times: “Seattle’s minimum-wage law has led to higher pay for restaurant workers...
View ArticlePaid Family Leave – Washington
Paid family and medical leave fast tracked through Legislature, By Jim Camden, July 3, 2017, Spokesman-Review: “Late Friday night, with great emotion but relatively little fanfare, the Legislature...
View ArticleUnemployment Compensation Fund – Ohio
Should Ohio workers have their wages taxed to pay for state jobless benefits?, By Catherine Candisky, October 22, 2017, Columbus Dispatch: “A proposal to shore up Ohio’s unemployment-compensation fund...
View ArticleChild Support and Income Withholding
Gig economy gives child support scofflaws a place to hide, By Jen Fifield, December 1, 2017, Stateline: “The rise of the gig economy and a broad shift to contract work is making it easier for people to...
View ArticleLow-Wage Work
As economy hums, fewer workers make minimum wage, By Laurent Belsie, July 6, 2018, Christian Science Monitor: “It’s ‘flip flop frenzy’ week at the Dollar Tree here on Valley Street, which is...
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