It's been nearly 13 years since the last federal minimum wage increase. A $15 minimum wage would raise the earnings of 32 million workers. President Joe Biden’s March 2022 State of the Union Address included a call for a $15 federal minimum wage. Acc ...
1 Jun 2022 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Don't believe the hype surrounding ESG investing Acording to defenders of the status quo, the best response to our most serious problems is to let markets work their magic. That is certainly the line that big finance is pushing when it comes to our e ...
23 Mar 2022 - Martin Hart-Lan...
New policies that better support workers and employ more people are needed T here appears to be growing consensus among economists and policymakers that inflation is now the main threat to the US economy and the Federal Reserve Board needs to start ratche ...
2 Feb 2022 - Martin Hart-Lan...
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Organizing and exposing the maldistribution of power is vital Pretty much everyone accepts that inequality is a big problem in the United States. But it is doubtful that most people grasp how successfully U.S. elites have captured ...
8 Dec 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
It's the bosses game: heads they win, tails you lose Between 28% and 47% of all private sector workers are subject to noncompete agreements according to an Economic Policy Institute report. Noncompete agreements (or noncompetes) are provisions in an ...
20 Oct 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Learning from history: Community-run child care centers during World War II We face many big challenges and we will need strong, bold policies to meaningfully address them. Solving our child care crisis is one of those challenges and a study of World War ...
25 Aug 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | This research legitimizes efforts in Portland and beyond to defund the police C onsiderable research shows that oppressive economic and social conditions are bad for one’s mental and physical health. A number of studies have also ...
26 May 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | It is hard to celebrate a system that covers fewer than 30% of America’s jobless Our unemployment insurance system has failed us. With tens of millions of workers struggling just to pay rent and buy food, Congress was forced to pa ...
17 Mar 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Most ended the additional pay for frontline retail workers before July I t wasn’t that long ago that the country celebrated frontline workers by banging pots in the evening to thank them for the risks they took doing their jobs du ...
13 Jan 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | By protecting themselves, workers can better protect the people they serve We need strong unions, all of us. Tragically, although perhaps not surprisingly, even during the pandemic businesses continue to aggressively resist worker ...
11 Nov 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...