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An Executive Order on Cryptocurrency: A Positive Sign for Pension Funds

Mar 15, 2022 Chinmay G. Pandit

Public pension funds and other institutional investors rejoiced earlier this week after President Biden signed a landmark executive order directing federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of digital currencies, with the ultimate goal of building a clear, durable, and conducive regulatory framework for the roughly $2 trillion industry. The executive order, which represents the […]

Pension Funds: These Once Hyper-Safe Investors Are Going to the Moon

Mar 7, 2022 Chinmay G. Pandit

In a world overcome by the cryptocurrency frenzy, large public pension funds — historically known for their ultra-safe investing style — have just entered the chat. The Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund, a pension fund for, as the name suggests, Houston’s firefighters, made news last October as the first American public pension plan to […]

December 16, 2020
News & Commentary

Courtney Brunson

As early voting for the Senate runoff elections is starting in Georgia, the American Prospect wrote about how labor unions are seeking to persuade working class Americans in the state. It highlighted the efforts of members of the state’s AFL-CIO leadership, who exclaimed that voting for the Democratic candidates, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, is […]

October 13, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Talks over a future potential COVID stimulus package have once again stalled after members of the House and Senate announced that there would not be much movement on a potential deal. The Senate has been focused on the Judge Amy Coney Barrett nomination hearings, prompting Senate Republicans to reject White House pushes to focus on […]

June 25, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Since the pandemic began, declines in workforce participation have proven particularly stark among women. Experts attribute this phenomenon in part to women’s disproportionate representation in service-sector businesses, which have been especially affected by the pandemic. Turmoil in the child care industry has also played a major role; around 60% of U.S. child care centers closed […]

December 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

The Trump administration’s Department of Agriculture has finalized a rule making it harder for states to waive requirements that certain SNAP benefits recipients work at least 20 hours a week in order to receive their food stamps. While recipients are generally limited to three months of benefits in a three-year timespan unless they meet the […]

Rise Up Retail Helps Workers Win Severance

Jun 5, 2019 Matthew Carrieri

On September 18, 2017, Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy. The toy retailer had been in decline since at least 2000, but ran into real trouble after a consortium of private equity and real estate firms bought the ailing private company in 2005 in a $6.6 billion leveraged buy-out. The group intended to restructure the […]

May 31, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

Yesterday, JPMorgan Chase announced a tentative settlement in a class-action case brought by a father who was denied the company’s 16 weeks of parental leave on the grounds that he was not the “primary caregiver.” The company will pay $5 million into a fund to compensate about 5,000 men who were denied parental leave for […]

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An Executive Order on Cryptocurrency: A Positive Sign for Pension Funds

Pension Funds: These Once Hyper-Safe Investors Are Going to the Moon

December 16, 2020

October 13, 2020

June 25, 2020

December 5, 2019

Rise Up Retail Helps Workers Win Severance

May 31, 2019