A research team including Vrinda Kadiyali of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, explored a path less traveled in the minimum wage debate – the potential positive impact on customer service and found that many consumers preferred service after the minimum wage increased.
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Chicago’s racial wealth gap examined in new UIC report
Interviews by the University of Illinois Chicago’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy highlight the precarity of many Black and Latino families who have ‘made it’
What’s at Stake Today for Workers, Unions? Rutgers Labor Experts Available for Interview
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (November 3, 2020) – Stronger workplace health and safety protections, national paid family leave, a higher federal minimum wage, organizing rights, and other policies critical to workers and their families hinge on the outcome of today’s presidential election.…
Study: Exploited San Francisco Workers are “Suffering Silently”
Many of the city’s most vulnerable workers are too afraid to file a complaint when their employer pays them below the minimum wage. Domestic workers are the biggest victims. Bar and restaurant employees are also high on the list.
Study: Wage Theft Runs Rampant During Recessions
Employers are more likely to cheat their workers during periods of high unemployment. It happened during the Great Recession of 2008. It’s even more likely during the COVID recession, in part because of President Trump’s recent executive order relaxing enforcement.
Strike for Black Lives: Rutgers Labor Expert Offers Historical Perspective
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (July 16, 2020) – A coalition of labor unions and social justice groups are calling on workers to walk off the job at noon on Monday, July 20 as part of the nationwide Strike for Black Lives. Organizers…
Minimum wage increases a mixed bag, but ‘not a good idea’ amid crisis
Researchers who have parsed minimum-wage increases over the past half-decade find a mixed bag of immediate results in states that push wages higher, but the pandemic-roiled economy changes all that, they say.