After facing years of ongoing strikes and protests from its own employees, Walmart announced plans today to give raises to nearly 500,000 of the company’s 1.3 million U.S. employees. In a letter to Walmart associates, CEO Doug McMillon outlined a series of “comprehensive changes” to the company’s “hiring, training, compensation,… Read More»
Surprise! Jobs With Justice and an extremist anti-union special interest group agree on the impact of “right-to-work” laws. We argue that states don’t benefit from passing these misnamed laws. The National Right to Work Committee (NRTWC) concurs. The group’s spokesman told the Wisconsin State Journal, “We’re not purporting to prove… Read More»
In places like southern California and central Florida, there’s likely been an uptick in kitchen table conversations about a very non-kitchen-table-talk topic: the H-1B visa, which is intended for employers to use for hiring foreign workers in higher skilled jobs on a temporary basis when U.S. workers are not available.… Read More»
UPDATE 5: Since 2019, three additional bills have passed, including in Georgia (HB 42), Louisiana (HB 423), and Texas (SB 37). UPDATE 4: During the 2019 state legislative cycle, Kentucky (HB 118) passed a law to end the practice of revoking someone’s professional license if they defaulted on their student… Read More»
Home-care workers – the fastest growing, lowest paid workforce in our country – are central to the future of our economy, and we can no longer afford to ignore their needs. These workers are on the front lines of caring for our country’s rapidly aging population, yet they’re often paid… Read More»
For the millions of Americans drowning in debt, non-payment is not an option, and student debt is the worst kind of debt to have. As Senator Elizabeth Warren once remarked, the powers of student-loan debt collectors “would make a mobster envious.” If you’re a company that holds student debt, on the… Read More»
UPDATE (1/23/2015): Yesterday, the Department of Labor filed an appeal to the lawsuit brought by home care companies challenging the Home Care Final Rule and stated: “We believe the Rule is legally sound and is the right policy—both for those employees, whose demanding work merits these fundamental wage guarantees, and for… Read More»
Tonight, during his State of the State address in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo will highlight his “Get on Your Feet Loan Forgiveness” proposal, a program that would mandate that the state of New York cover certain borrowers’ student loan payments the first two years out of college. Any New… Read More»
The words “free” and “college” haven’t been uttered in the same sentence by a president in decades, until President Obama made a huge announcement last week: he’ll use his State of the Union address to share a plan for making community college free. The concept isn’t new. Across the country,… Read More»
Did you know that in two states not paying your student loans could mean your driver’s license can be revoked? That’s the harsh reality for those who have had to borrow to pay for college in both Montana and Iowa, where there are laws that allow the state to take… Read More»
