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Bill Spriggs was everything right about humanity. Dedicated, ernest and grounded with integrity to make this works a better place for so many. Among the pantheon in developing and advancing Black economic thought and Black economic thought leaders. Rest in power Bill

New York Times Headlines Article “Public Tired of ‘Neo-Liberal’ Policies Designed to Make Rich Richer” cepr.net/new-york-times…

Workers should be paid a living wage. AND—If we eliminate the sub-minimum wage pd to tipped workers (i.e. employer wage subsidy!) all tips would actually be gratuity. CEPR

Great overview by Barry Eidlin of the Teamsters tentative agreement with UPS

Echoes of the 2008 Great Recession still resonate. Budget cuts and privatization left a scar, rendering the public sector more fragile than imagined. Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 Hayley Brown Emma Curchin explain in our recent report ➡️ cepr.net/report/trends-…

The contours of US capitalism have fundamentally tilted the economic playing field to a perilous degree for millions of workers who are now saying enough is enough. UAW Teamsters

FTC stopping PE roll-ups that undermine fair competition & harm people & communities- suing Anesthesia Partners/PE firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe for consolidating TX anesthesia markets & driving up healthcare prices. nytimes.com/2023/09/21/hea…

Our report recommends: ☑️ Expanding teacher unions and advocating for increased teacher pay, improved job quality, and more resources for teachers. ☑️ Federal support to maintain and improve resources for schools.

Teachers in private schools make much less

CEPR's Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 points out what's driving the recent strike surge—workers are tired of a rigged playing field that lets “the rich get richer...from the pockets of hard-working folks.” vox.com/2023/10/18/239…

According to Sylvia Allegretto 🎶, over 12M food service workers are in the US, but just 1.7% have a union. Building worker power takes time. Working with Acting Secretary Julie Su, we could end the tipped minimum wage overnight—rescuing millions from poverty wages. cepr.net/the-subminimum…

Sectoral collective bargaining!

“Nothing against actuaries (median salary: $113,990), but isn’t helping a first-grader learn to read as valuable as assessing insurance premiums on your Hyundai Elantra?” I couldn’t agree more‼️

President Donald J. Trump Hayley Brown tlc-soc.bsky.social Dean Baker We're excited that President Donald J. Trump wants to #RaiseTheWage for public school teachers. This is incredible news, especially given the teacher pay penalty. CEPR Senior Economist Sylvia Allegretto 🎶. cepr.net/report/teacher…

Hey Emily Peck, we've still work to do. While some states have raised their min wages above the fed level, 20 states—mostly concentrated in the south—are sticking to $7.25/hr. No one can live on that. More on the fed wage floor from Sylvia Allegretto 🎶: bit.ly/RaiseTheWage24

.Heritage Foundation is championing policies that undermine US workers' efforts to unionize—like banning card checks through #Project2025. Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 and Hayley Brown explain why card checks must be codified immediately before it's too late. i.mtr.cool/cjyxdwsuxe

It shouldn’t be so damn hard to exercise our right to form a union & get to the bargaining table!

NEW: The pay gap for #teachers grew to a RECORD 26.6% in 2023—a significant increase from 6.1% in 1996. ✅Closing the growing #paygap between teachers & other college graduate professionals is critical to public education. Read more from Sylvia Allegretto 🎶: i.mtr.cool/omhckaguqy

Closing the teacher pay gap is "a question of political will, with profound implications for our children, their families and communities, and the future of our nation," says Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 epi.org/publication/te…

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