As restaurants reopen across the nation, “we’re hiring” signs can be found in nearly every storefront, revealing the food service industry’s newest plight in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The national shutdowns that began in March 202...
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As restaurants reopen across the nation, “we’re hiring” signs can be found in nearly every storefront, revealing the food service industry’s newest plight in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The national shutdowns that began in March 202...
A patchwork of federal, state, and local laws sets the minimum wages in the United States. The federal minimum wage acts as the bottom price floor for nearly all labor wages throughout the country, except a few occupations within the restaurant and h...
A patchwork of federal, state, and local laws sets the minimum wages in the United States. The federal minimum wage acts as the bottom price floor for nearly all labor wages throughout the country, except a few occupations within the restaurant and h...
Shamar El-Shabazz works at a Burger King in Delaware for the state minimum wage of $8.25 per hour. At 50 years old, he lives in a one-bedroom apartment with his daughter and wife, who cannot work due to a medical condition. Shamar had previously work...
Shamar El-Shabazz works at a Burger King in Delaware for the state minimum wage of $8.25 per hour. At 50 years old, he lives in a one-bedroom apartment with his daughter and wife, who cannot work due to a medical condition. Shamar had previously work...
Thomas Perez ’83, a Brown alumnus who holds a master of public policy and a law degree from Harvard University, is the US Secretary of Labor and the former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights of the US Department of Justice. Brown Political...
Thomas Perez ’83, a Brown alumnus who holds a master of public policy and a law degree from Harvard University, is the US Secretary of Labor and the former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights of the US Department of Justice. Brown Political...
Dan Barry’s recent New York Times article “The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse” shed light on the deplorable use of segregated workshops, which keep developmentally disabled (DD) individuals in life-long jobs that often consist of little more than ...
Dan Barry’s recent New York Times article “The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse” shed light on the deplorable use of segregated workshops, which keep developmentally disabled (DD) individuals in life-long jobs that often consist of little more than ...
Spoiler alert: Check out what you can do to keep the conversation going here. It’s almost impossible not to be cynical, reading the Times story about the White House and America’s young billionaires-to-be. Have you seen it? 100 twenty-somethings,...
Spoiler alert: Check out what you can do to keep the conversation going here. It’s almost impossible not to be cynical, reading the Times story about the White House and America’s young billionaires-to-be. Have you seen it? 100 twenty-somethings,...