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July 21, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

The New York City Council passed the country’s first law requiring ride-hailing apps like Uber to offer in-app tipping. New York’s in-app tipping requirement was first proposed to the City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission this spring in a petition by the Independent Driver’s Guild that garnered over 11,000 signatures. Also this week, Uber’s long-awaited in-app […]

July 19, 2017
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

NPR reports that state minimum wage preemption laws are on the rise. 27 states currently have laws prohibiting cities from raising their minimum wage above the state minimum. In Missouri, the last state to pass one of these measures, a minimum wage preemption law will go into effect on August 28th. When this law takes […]

Seattle and the (Methodology of the) Economics of Minimum Wage

Jun 26, 2017 Benjamin Sachs

Thanks to the many readers who have responded to my post (just now) on the University of Washington minimum wage study. The original post is now updated to include a link to the EPI paper that responds to the UW study and makes a series of important methodological criticisms of that study. Noam Scheiber also […]

Seattle and the Economics of Minimum Wage

Jun 26, 2017 Benjamin Sachs

As FiveThirtyEight reports today, in a story titled Seattle’s Minimum Wage Hike May Have Gone Too Far, a team of researchers at the University of Washington is out with a new economic analysis of the Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance. Here’s the abstract, summarizing the main conclusions: This paper evaluates the wage, employment, and hours effects of the […]

June 23, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

On Tuesday, President Trump nominated Marvin Kaplan to the NLRB. Kaplan is a former lawyer for the Republicans on the House education and oversight committees. The NLRB now has a Republican majority, and Kaplan’s confirmation could lead to the reversal of a number of Obama-era Board actions, as the New York Times details.

Equal Pay [for Teens] for Equal Work

May 15, 2017 Suzanne Schlossberg

Tyeshawn Clark,[1] is a 17-year-old high school student who lives with his mom and 2-year-old brother in Dorchester, MA. Every day after school Tyeshawn works at the Transformative Culture Project, a job placement he found through the Boston Private Industry Council, an employment program at his high school. This is the third job for Tyeshawn, […]

Today’s News and Commentary — May 8, 2017

May 8, 2017 Emily Miller

France voted yesterday to elect Emmanuel Macron as its next President, defeating far-right nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen in a run-off election. As the New York Times notes, this is good news for the European Union, as Ms. Le Pen’s victory would have threatened France’s future as a member of the E.U. The E.U., however […]

May 4, 2017
News & Commentary

Isis Freeman

The New York Times reports that Apple plans to create a $1 billion fund for the advancement of manufacturing jobs in the United States. In an interview with CNBC, Apple’s chief executive Timothy D. Cook noted, “Those manufacturing jobs create more jobs around them because you have a service industry that builds up around them.” […]

Today’s News & Commentary — April 5, 2017

Apr 5, 2017 Maia Usui

Title VII protects LGBT workers from discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled for the first time yesterday. The plaintiff in the case, Kimberly Hively, alleged that she had been fired from her teaching job because she is a lesbian. In an 8-3 decision, the full Seventh Circuit held that “discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a form of sex […]

Birmingham & The Impact of Race on State Preemption Laws

Apr 3, 2017 Karim Lakhani

Early last year, Alabama passed a preemption law preventing any city in the state from, among other things, setting their own minimum wage. The law was perceived to be targeting Birmingham, the only city in Alabama to have enacted a minimum wage ordinance that went beyond the federal minimum wage. In response, the NAACP filed […]

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July 21, 2017

July 19, 2017

Seattle and the (Methodology of the) Economics of Minimum Wage

Seattle and the Economics of Minimum Wage

June 23, 2017

Equal Pay [for Teens] for Equal Work

Today’s News and Commentary — May 8, 2017

May 4, 2017

Today’s News & Commentary — April 5, 2017

Birmingham & The Impact of Race on State Preemption Laws