July 3rd 2022
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Over the summer, President Biden issued a lengthy Executive Order on “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce.” The EO directs the federal government to revamp its personnel management practices—recruitment, hiring, training,...
Today, U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman from New York is introducing a “Green New Deal for Public Schools” which would fund 1.3 million jobs a year by hiring and training more teachers and reducing student-to-staff ratios. It would also direct more money to...
“Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class” was the front page headline of the New York Times yesterday. The Times reported that the “steady erosion of the public sector” has contributed to the decline of the middle class in recent decades....
Unpaid interns who sued Hearst magazines under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) recently learned an important lesson: judges often make law in the guise of statutory interpretation. The lawsuit against Hearst, along with a similar lawsuit against Fox...
Incarcerated men, women and children make up a third of California’s wildfire-fighting force. Doing dangerous and demanding 24-hour shifts, inmate-firefighters are paid $1 per hour. Their work and time off are the subject of a photo essay from the Marshall...