Hard Work, Hard Lives: America’s Low-Wage Workers
Source: Hart Research Associates on behalf of Oxfam America, August 2013 From the press release: As the nation prepares to mark Labor Day, Oxfam America released the findings of a new poll commissioned...
View ArticleAre Millennials Turning Their Backs on the American Dream?
Source: Joel Kotkin, NewGeography.com, November 10, 2013 …To some, this dismal outlook is either inevitable, or even positive, as Americans shift from their historically “expansive” view and embrace a...
View ArticleThe Glass Floor: Education, Downward Mobility, and Opportunity Hoarding
Source: Richard V. Reeves and Kimberly Howard, Brookings Institution, Center on children and Families, November 2013 From the summary: From an intergenerational perspective, the U.S. income...
View ArticleMobility and the Metropolis
Source: Patrick Sharkey, Bryan Graham, Pew Charitable Trusts, Economic Mobility Project, December 2013 From the summary: This report shows that neighborhoods play an important role in determining a...
View ArticleThe Decline of Colorado’s Middle Class
Source: David Madland and Keith Miller, Center for American Progress, December 12, 2013 From the summary: Colorado’s middle class is struggling. In the wake of the Great Recession, middle-class...
View ArticleIs The United States Still A Land Of Opportunity? Recent Trends In...
Source: Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper Series, Working Paper 19844, January 2014 From the...
View ArticleWhere is the angry middle-class revolution?
Source: Robert Reich, Salon, January 27, 2014 Our incomes are shrinking while the 1 percent profits. Change will only happen when the middle class gets mad. … …Middle incomes are sinking, the ranks of...
View ArticleThe Great Cost Shift Continues: State Higher Education Funding After the...
Source: Robert Hiltonsmith, Tamara Draut, Dēmos, March 2014 From the summary: As student debt continues to climb, it’s important to understand how our once debt-free system of public universities and...
View ArticleWage Policy as an Essential Ingredient in a Democratic Society
Source: Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Journal of Workplace Rights, Volume 17, Number 1, 2012-2013 (subscription required) From the abstract: In this article, I argue that wage policy is an essential...
View ArticleLocal Living Wage Ordinances: Experience, Evidence and Best Practice
Source: Jody Knauss, COWS (Center on Wisconsin Strategy), November 19, 2013 From the abstract: Living wage ordinances are enacted by local governments to raise job standards for workers at firms that...
View ArticleForces of Divergence – Is surging inequality endemic to capitalism?
Source: John Cassidy, New Yorker, March 31, 2014 ….What are the “forces of divergence” that produce enormous riches for some and leave the majority scrabbling to make a decent living? Piketty is clear...
View ArticleOut of Reach 2014
Source: Althea Arnold, Sheila Crowley, Elina Bravve, Sarah Brundage, Christine Biddlecombe, National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2014 From the press release: According to Out of Reach 2014, a report...
View ArticleHow Unions Fight for the Economic Security of Nonmembers
Source: Jake Rosenfeld, On Labor blog, April 1, 2014 A common narrative of organized labor portrays unions as self-interested organizations focused solely on preserving their members’ prerogatives....
View ArticleOur Inequality: An Introduction
Source: Colin Gordon, Dissent, March 6, 2014 This series is adapted from Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality, a resource developed for the Project on Inequality and the Common...
View ArticleThe Distribution of Household Income and the Middle Class
Source: Craig K. Elwell, Congressional Research Service (CRS), CRS Report, RS20811, March 10, 2014 Although not itself a subject of legislation, the shape of the income distribution enters Congress’s...
View ArticleThe Low-Wage Recovery: Industry Employment and Wages Four Years into the...
Source: National Employment Law Project, Data Brief, April 2014 From the summary: This report updates NELP’s previous industry-based analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the...
View ArticleThe Plight Of The Middle Class In The Post-Recession Job Market
Source: Diane Rehm Show, May 1, 2014 (audio) The U.S. middle class is no longer the world’s richest. Recent analysis shows that while wealthy Americans still outpace their peers in other advanced...
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Comparing the Policy Preferences of Unions & Corporations
Source: Sean McElwee, Dēmos, Policy Shop Blog, June 12, 2014 …It’s important to note that the “mass based interest groups” include groups like the National Rifle Association and American Israel Public...
View ArticleStates Respond to Wealth Gap
Source: Jake Grovum, Stateline.org, June 12, 2014 …Polls show inequality to be a growing public concern. A Pew Research Center survey this year found 65 percent of all Americans believed inequality was...
View ArticleFlorida’s Struggling Middle Class
Source: David Madland and Keith Miller, Center for American Progress, May 29, 2014 From the summary: The past 30 years have not been kind to Florida’s middle class, which now ranks among the weakest in...
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