May 16th 2022
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As K-12 schools welcomed students back to the classroom, they had to grapple with a new challenge: a nationwide teacher and staff shortage accelerated by the pandemic. The composition of these shortages differ around the country: Michigan saw a 44% increase in...
Recently, the Wisconsin Senate voted to approve a law that would allow employers to keep teenage workers at work longer, in an effort to address the so-called labor shortage. Currently, teenagers may not work before 7 AM or past 7 PM. The proposed law...
The House has finally passed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. Among many other things, it promises spending on road improvements and broadband access. But in a potentially dangerous move, the infrastructure bill invites young 18- to 20- year old...
Tuesday was election day in America, and millions of voters in cities and states across the country cast their ballots to select their next mayors, city councilors, school board members, congressional representatives (in Ohio and Florida), and, in Virginia and New...
The exercise of worker power is undoubtedly on the rise this autumn. Labor twitter has deemed this month #Striketober as tens of thousands of workers across the country have walked off the job. 10,000 John Deere workers are on strike across the Midwest after...
Last week, on Labor Day, an estimated 8.9 million workers and their families lost federal unemployment benefits, and nearly three million more had their weekly checks reduced by $300 per week. The Biden administration, despite the entreaties of many workers,...
Hurricane Ida, now a Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall in Louisiana today, on the sixteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm’s trajectory includes New Orleans in its path and will present a test of the 350 miles of infrastructural...
Governments and businesses are scrambling to attract workers. New Mexico has pledged $5 million in federal pandemic relief to subsidize wages for pickers and workers at chile processing plants, raising the wages as high as $19.50 per hour. Werner Enterprises has...
As an extraordinary heat wave continues to smash all-time records and scorch the West Coast and the Pacific Northwest, melting pipes, roads, and infrastructure, Vice reports that, because of the sweltering temperatures, the region’s agricultural workers, who...
As restaurants across the country reportedly struggle to fill many of the grueling positions in their sweltering kitchens, conservative lawmakers have descended on the erroneous consensus that the pandemic-era enhanced unemployment insurance payments are the reason...
The number of initial state unemployment claims decreased by 193,000 last week, resulting in a weekly total of 576,000 claims. While reassuring, these numbers nevertheless highlight the work that remains when it comes to repairing the labor market....