Posted on 25 December 2019. Tags: Fight for 15, Kara Eastman, Minimum Wage, Nebraska, Yannet Lathrop
As the New Year beckons, there’s good news and bad news on wages. The good news is something I’ve been able to talk about for the past few years at the end of each year—come January 1st, a whole lot of people are going to see their paychecks increase because of some state and local […]
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Posted on 09 January 2019. Tags: Amazon, Minimum Wage, NELP, Oren Teicher, Standard and Poor's, Yannet Lathrop
I’ve spent a fair amount of time recently on the very bad deal made by New York and Virginia with Amazon to lure the company to build its new headquarters in those two states. Amazon is an important story because of the power it exercises over our economy—a power that grows every day. This week, […]
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