In May, McDonald’s workers in 15 citiesled strikesto demand a $15 company-wide minimum wage. Fast food workers make just$11.80an hour or $24,540 a yearworking full-time, on average, making themsome of thelowest-paidworkersin America. In California, fast food workers are going...
But free college and debt forgiveness by themselves leave much of the structural inequality of American higher education firmly intact. Take, for example, California’s widely emulated three-level higher education system. It gives $13,000 in state funding per undergraduate to students in the elite ...
Nominal wage growth has stagnated, and real earnings have fallen this year. More than one in every five dollars in real disposable income now comes as a transfer payment from government. The strengthening in the dollar (and slowing growth overseas) could reduce demand for exports, and housing ...
Research conducted by pv magazine USA has uncovered more than 139 GWac of solar projects which have applied for interconnection with six grid operators (CAISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, MISO, PJM, ERCOT) by the end of December 2018, spanning the Northeast, Midwest, California and Texas……[snip] Even ...
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Nearly three quarters of Texas’ nursing home patients have an income low enough to qualify for Medicaid reimbursements, which are hardly generous. As a result, the homes can only afford to hire minimum-wage workers. The question about THE is whether Kern and his executives attempt to milk ...
(The program serves 25 of the 110 schools with predominantly low-income students.) “They get a chance to assimilate into the culture. Their social skills increase. They’re given a chance to develop a sense of self-esteem they don’t always get at school.” At the least, they have a...
When Charles arrived on Capitol Hill as a wide-eyed intern in 1969, he was already a paragon of the American meritocracy. His father, Abe, ran a small exterminator business in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which provided a stable working-class income for Charles and his two siblings. “Our family...
” On one, an “SWC” had been marked out with a large black X, and “MS-13” had been written directly above it. I also saw the spray-painted phrase “187 to MS” (“187” refers to the section of the California penal code that deals with homicide). That phrase had been marked...