Walmart, of all companies, seems on track to prove wrong everyone who said that the US couldn't afford a national $15 minimum wage by 2025
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Every time I see 's finding, I am struck again:
Higher minimum wages for nursing home workers *reduce patient mortality.*
They also improve intermediate health outcomes: fewer pressure ulcers (a major issue in nursing homes), fewer health inspection violations.
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"Higher minimum wages improve the quality of care provided in nursing homes without lowering employment." Just Accepted new paper by Krista Ruffini, @KristaRuffini zcu.io/9uiY
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While the Fight for 15 has had remarkable success raising workers' wages, the fight for predictable hours has been a lot harder. Yet more pay means little if you don't know how much and when you'll work each week.
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the new axis (axes?) of evil
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An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have driven the changes ow.ly/MyOx50MwEyF
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For South African audience, a summary of my recent paper on firms and inequality.
"South Africa’s world-leading wage inequality has as much to do with what bosses are doing as it does with how educated or experienced workers are."
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latest update to the handy dandy US low-wage worker calculator: industry and occupation breakdowns
economic.github.io/low_wage_workf
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a) The pandemic-era rallying cries to better value “essential workers,” including food service employees, renewed energy for more humane treatment & pay…
check out this dial by : economic.github.io/low_wage_workf
42 million workers are paid less than $18/hr. not just teens.
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States banning abortion rights are the same states historically disempowering workers through
* lower minimum wages & unionization rates
* higher incarceration rates
* harder to access unemployment insurance and Medicaid
new report from
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me: every step of your data analysis needs to be well documented, transparent, and clearly commented. when someone returns to the project weeks or years from now, your documentation should make it easy to get up to speed
also me:
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truly depraved and disgusting stuff from the national restaurant association, convincing governments to require workers to pay for food safety courses that it runs and then using that money to lobby against higher minimum wages
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Throughout oral argument, the liberal justices sounded the alarm on how a ruling in favor of the company would imperil the U.S. labor movement. Conservative justices seemed eager to bring about that exact result. My latest for
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just saute your onions, peppers, whatever aromatics and then add collards and a very very small amount of salted broth/water. afterwards season to taste with vinegar, etc
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can't believe that after 20 years of cooking I'm only now realizing that you can cook delicious collards in a pressure cooker
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Using the data analysis tool created, we found that, in the 20 states that have their minimum wage set at the federal minimum of $7.25, workers are **46% more likely** to make under $15 an hour than the other 30 states and DC.
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Want to know how many low-wage workers there are in the US? Here is a handy calculator
economic.github.io/low_wage_workf
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After the longest period in history without an increase, the US federal minimum wage today is worth 28% less than 13 years ago–and 41% less than in 1968
economic.github.io/real_minimum_w
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Ironically the hawks are now the ones making 'look through transitory.' Which is fair!
But let's look at the basket of prices the Cleveland Fed uses for Median CPI and its density. There was a big broadening of price increases in 2022 - but that is now reverting. This is real./6
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Very cool to see the AEA Andrew Brimmer Undergraduate Essay Prize go to students from the Emerson Prison Initiative at MCI-Concord.
Title: “Incarcerated Black Americans: The Forgotten Unemployed”
: Is the essay available to read?
aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono
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I love this! I mean, not the millions of workers making less than $20/hr, the disproportionate share of people of color or lack of union representation. But the good looking data, with downloadable code, is amazing!
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trying to learn quarto and some javascript... I still don't know what I'm doing but I like it!
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Women are nearly 60% of the 21 million workers paid less than $15 per hour in the US
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trying to learn quarto and some javascript... I still don't know what I'm doing but I like it!
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What are the best online sources for bags of whole dried chile peppers? Guajillo, pasilla, bird's eye, ancho, etc.
I'm running out and my usual options are no longer in business. Help!
gangsta boo was not just super talented, she was FUNNY on her verses in a way these boys could never. urgh!
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"In March, in its open letter to the company, the union even placed updating the creaking scheduling technology above its demands for increased pay."
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happy new year!
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encore audio product:
ª historian David Roediger on the uses of "middle class" in US politics
• Ellora Derenoncourt <>, on the US racial wealth gap [holiday-season encore presentation of interviews first broadcast in June]
leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S22
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Still hoping this gets me a job in 2023😅:
Is free trade really good for growth? My JMP shows that tariff reductions have been beneficial only for industrialized countries and actually detrimental for non-industrialized ones. mathoyosgit.github.io/mathoyos/jmp_c
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For ABDs working on employment topics 👇🏾
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The Upjohn Institute has joined with the @RussellSageFdn Dissertation Research Grants program to fund dissertation research on employment issues, especially policy-relevant research pertaining to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. upjohn.org/about/news-eve
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A really important job market paper by UC Berkeley's . Shows how we should think about minimum wage as a distributional tool even if it has no efficiency gains (like from reallocation).
dvergarad.github.io/files/JMP_DV.p
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Consumer Reports scientists recently measured the amount of heavy metals in 28 dark chocolate bars. They detected cadmium and lead in all of them... For 23 of the bars, eating just 1 oz a day would put an adult over a potentially harmful level of lead.
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have folks with kids under age 5 had any luck getting a bivalent booster? we are having trouble finding them where we are in Virginia
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I'm looking for detailed historical Black & white population statistics for the wards and districts of New Orleans / Orleans Parish, LA (years: 1890-1920). Anyone have any leads? Also any recommended crosswalks from historical districts to wards for this period?
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Just released! New CORE Insights chapter on "Persistent Racial Inequality In The United States" with
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Low wages are widespread problem in the US, even after recent wage growth. The latest data show that 21 million workers still earn less than $15 per hour.
economic.github.io/under15/
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grab this figure and code to reproduce it here economic.github.io/real_minimum_w
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just chiming in to remind everyone that the US federal minimum wage has been stuck at the same nominal level for the last 13 years
it is now worth 40% less than what we paid the lowest wage workers half a century ago
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