by lindaoppenheim | Feb 18, 2018 | Article
On February 26th, 2018, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, a case that could profoundly affect the ability of public-sector workers to improve their wages and working conditions. Celine McNicholas and Janelle Jones of the...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 7, 2016 | Article, Documents
In his Washington Post article, Jeff Guo discusses an Economic Policy Institute report that shows that the black-white wage gap is now the widest it has been since 1979. “EPI finds that the black-white wage gap has become wider — and is widening faster — among...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 27, 2014 | Article
Richard Rothstein, from the Economic Policy Institute, expands on the conventional explanation of the segregation in towns like Ferguson. “A more powerful cause of metropolitan segregation in St. Louis and nationwide has been the explicit intents of federal,...