A Step Towards Pay Equity in Pennsylvania
Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order yesterday aimed at combating pay equity in Pennsylvania. The order, called “Equal...
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Why “Get a Job!” Is Not the Answer to Decreasing Reliance on Food Stamps
“Just get a job!” I’ve heard these words yelled out of car windows when I marched alongside poor and...
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PA Leads on Overtime Pay – Where the Governor Can Act Without the State Legislature
Turns out that Gov. Wolf believes in the 40-hour week. Because he does, about 460,000 lower-paid Pennsylvania salaried workers...
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A Victory for Seattle “For-Hire” Drivers…and for the Next Labor Movement
One regular theme on this blog is that area-wide unions that lift wages and benefits in industries that cannot...
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Apprenticeship Weak: Trump Proposal Fails to Tap into Apprenticeship’s Potential
This piece was originally posted on the Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog here: http://www.epi.org/blog/trump-apprenticeship-proposal/. Everyone loves apprenticeships (including me)...
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Pennsylvania Job Growth in June
This morning the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry reported that nonfarm payrolls grew in June by 20,000 and...
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More on Counting Shale Jobs and Deciphering Who Cooks the Books
As the saying goes, “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove...
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October Payrolls Up Overall but Down in Mining, Logging and Schools
This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate in Pennsylvania was down slightly to 5.1...
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If the Robots Actually Were to Come … We Could Enjoy Shorter Work Time
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing recently with people saying, “the robots are coming” with fear that they are...
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The State of Working Pennsylvania
Below is the third in a series of excerpts from The State of Working Pennsylvania 2015 report, released by...
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Significant Excess Capacity Remains in PA Labor Market
Below is the second in a series of excerpts from The State of Working Pennsylvania 2015 report, released by...
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The State of the Pennsylvania Economy
Below is the first in a series of excerpts from The State of Working Pennsylvania 2015 report, released by...
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