Category: Business
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On Paid Sick Leave, as with Other Policy, Universal Beats Targeted and Technocratic
California’s 2022 COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave law is well-intentioned, but it could have been much more efficient, consistent, and clear.
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Boycott the Anti-Worker Surcharge
Businesses that add a minimum wage line item to checks are trying to turn customers against the people who work for them.
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Dear Councilman Grosso: Please Be Our Ally and Support 77
Being an ally to women and immigrants, which you’ve been in the past, means raising wages for vulnerable workers.
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Listen to Tipped Workers
The voices of the low-wage majority of tipped workers have been underrepresented in the debate over DC’s Initiative 77. Their stories must be heard.
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Hold Up, Bernie! Stopping BEZOS Requires a Different Approach.
Corporate greed and low wages are the right targets. A new bill from Bernie Sanders is the wrong remedy.
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Ramming Morality Into Our Economic System the John Ruskin Way
A slim pamphlet from the mid-19th century provides both a diagnosis of today’s economic problems and a potential cure.
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Bigotry and Disenfranchisement: Making Sense of Trump Supporters’ Motivations
Understanding Trump means getting outraged and intervening – against both bigotry and a system that isn’t working.
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The Sound Reasoning Behind a $15 Minimum Wage
The New York Times Editorial Board recently endorsed a $15 federal minimum wage. A proposal at the federal level would phase in $15 an hour in small increments over a period of several years and would still, as the Times mentions, set a wage floor in 2020 below what most…
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Hillary Clinton’s Less than Stellar Record on Trade
In this post, Part 4 in a series on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Emilio da Costa describes Clinton’s record on international trade and business issues. Emilio, who holds a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from Stanford, can be…
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What It Means to be Tough on Wall Street
I nearly spit out the hard apple cider I was drinking when I heard the following exchange during the first Democratic presidential debate: Anderson Cooper: Senator Sanders wants to break up the big Wall Street banks. You don’t. You say charge the banks more, continue to monitor them. Why is…
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