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Spurred by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in May 2020, economist William E. Spriggs wrote an open letter to his peers castigating them for making too many assumptions to explain racial disparities in America’s economy. Dr. Spriggs, an economics professor at Howard University and chief economist for the AFL-CIO labor federation, noted […]
The CEOs of America's biggest oil companies were paid a lot more in the first year of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis than initially estimated – thanks to stock-heavy compensation [...]
A restaurant worker at a "wage strike" demonstration organized by One Fair Wage in Washington, DC on May 26, 2021
Income Mobility and the Fallacy of Class-Warfare Arguments AgainstTax Relief
Workers may have more leverage these days, but the boss is still the boss.