Paid Leave
NJ set to begin payroll deductions for paid family leave
“A drop in productivity when there’s somebody pinch-hitting for people
who are out on leave…is a further
obstacle for employers to keep and retain clients and to limit their
costs.”
Luckily, this worker benefit comes at no cost to employers (though you wouldn’t know it, the way they fight it).
Lawsuit filed to block Milwaukee sick leave law
“The 20-page lawsuit claims the ordinance is unconstitutional, vague
and unenforceable, and creates a new minimum wage ordinance contrary to
state law.”
Working while sick is actually required by the MMAC constitution.
Minimum Wage
Media Undermines Minimum Wage Increase
“The reporters continue with this narrow frame by implying that certain
employers and the state’s 300,000 minimum wage workers will be the only
ones to feel the impact of the change.”
Narrow frames make for narrow minds.
Opinion: The minimum wage
“The minimum wage sets the wage floor. As Roosevelt and his advisers understood, we have to raise the floor to lift the economy.”
Poverty
Editorial: The State of the Poor
“But too little attention is being paid to the poor in the current economic crisis.”
Clearly, too little attention is being paid to framing strategy when it comes to “the poor” as well.
Curing poverty is the key to improving education
“The answer to improving school achievement is simple: cure poverty.”
Why didn’t we think of that before? Problem: solved.
‘Reducing poverty’ is the wrong goal
“Unless we want to narrow the list of solutions at the outset, the new
president should focus instead on how to establish goals that measure
our progress toward an inclusive economy that works for all of us.”
Note to self: The Cure Poverty Caboose is derailed. Abandon ship.