“Our results suggest that laws like Rhode Island’s [Temporary Caregiver Insurance] may not have significant impacts on small and medium-sized employers and could garner support by such employers once they have experienced them.” This is according to Columbia Business School professor Ann Bartel, economists Maya Rossin-Slater (UCSB) and Christopher Ruhm (U.Va.) and Columbia social work […]

Last week, I testified before the D.C. Council on the Universal Paid Leave Act of 2015. This legislation would provide paid family leave for workers who live or work in my hometown, the District of Columbia. You can see my testimony here (cross-posted on the Equitable Growth website): Paid leave is good for our families […]

Some local leaders are using Walmart’s move to close 154 of its U.S. stores as an opportunity to focus on driving down benefits for workers, instead of focusing on the failure of the retailer’s business model and its management. Cross posted from the Equitable Growth website: Always-low wages aren’t always competitive