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August 9, 2018
News & Commentary

Ryan Wheeler

As expected, the New York City Council voted yesterday to cap the number of Ubers allowed to drive within the city, in a win for taxi drivers, who had complained of deflated incomes. The move came despite opposition from the NAACP and other civil rights organizations, who argued that rideshare services like Lyft were more […]

January 30, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

In the wake of many, serious allegations against casino mogul Steve Wynn, casino worker Brittany Bronson uses a New York Times op-ed to shine a bright light on wealth inequality and sexual abuse at work. Bronson analogizes the confidentiality required in a high-value sexual assault settlement to the silence with which many low-wage women endure […]

September 17, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

Gallup Senior Economist Jonathan Rothwell synthesizes data challenging the notion that globalization and manufacturing’s decline explain President Trump’s electoral victory. When controlling for demographic factors, Mr. Trump was only three percent more popular among manufacturing workers than non-manufacturing workers. Current supporters of the president are less concerned than their countrymen about how trade and technology […]

July 7, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

The June jobs report was released this morning. There’s coverage here and here. In anticipation of the report, coverage in major papers this week remarked on the economy’s continued slow expansion and the slower-than-last-year jobs growth in the first five months of 2017. The Department of Labor filed a brief defending most of its fiduciary […]

May 3, 2017
News & Commentary

Hannah Belitz

Hollywood writers have achieved victory. As the New York Times reports, the Writers Guild of America reached a “middle-of-the night deal” with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group that bargains on behalf of studios. As the Los Angeles Times put it, the deal itself “was a pulse-pounding climax that a Hollywood screenwriter might have […]

April 30, 2017
News & Commentary

Maia Usui

Yesterday was the 100th day of the Trump presidency, and the report cards are in. In an op-ed published in The Washington Post, President Trump maintained that he has “kept his promise[s]” to the American people. He pointed to his achievements in curbing immigration and overhauling the United States’ trade relationships. But there’s one area in which he has […]

Thinking About The Equal Pay Act on Equal Pay Day

Apr 4, 2017 Suzanne Schlossberg

Equal Pay Day, April 4, 2017, symbolizes how far into the year women, on average, must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. In fact, Asian American Women’s Equal Pay Day is on March 7th, Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is on July 31st, Native American Women’s Equal Pay Day is September […]

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Thinking About The Equal Pay Act on Equal Pay Day