Studies show that prevailing-wage laws uplift workers without increasing project costs. They should be expanded to state and local service contracts.
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Posted inWorking in America
How to Stop Restaurant Workers From Quitting
Dumping the subminimum-wage standard ($2.13 an hour?!) they labor under would certainly help—and now may be more politically possible.
Posted inWorking in America
Why Most Kroger Workers Are Food Insecure
And what the company can do about it
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Nursing Home Slumlord Manifesto
In a surreal new lawsuit, New York nursing home owners say they make nearly a billion dollars a year understaffing homes and shortchanging patients.
Posted inPolitics
The Democratic Pivot
There’s a path to gaining some needed successes on policy and legislation while waiting for a deal to emerge on Build Back Better.
Posted inPolitics
State Dems Need to Think Big. Bigger.
Joe Biden’s legacy could come down to blue-state governors.
Posted inPolitics
Biden Makes His Case
Attacking Republicans in a Harry Trumanesque manner can work, but if COVID and inflation persist, then not so much.
Posted inEducation in America
Will the Nation’s Largest Urban University System Become Free?
After years of austerity and a crippling pandemic, City University of New York is struggling to get students the choice of classwork they want.
Posted inHousing
Missed Measurement: We Have No Idea How Many Evictions There Are
There is no federal data on evictions, keeping policymakers blind during a moment of uncertainty.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Is Government Competent to Spend More Public Money?
Some lessons from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act
