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October 15, 2021
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Molly Osberg
Service Workers Are Now Frontline Public Health Enforcers
Is it any wonder they are quitting in droves?
May 11, 2021
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Jacob Silverman
Low Wages and Crappy Jobs Gave Us the Labor “Shortage”
Republicans think overly generous unemployment benefits are keeping people from working. Biden might be taking the bait.
November 20, 2020
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J.C. Pan
Hazard Pay Was Just a Brand Exercise
Covid-19 cases are surging, but enhanced compensation for frontline workers has all but dried up. Giants like Walmart and Amazon got the reputation bump; now they’ve moved on.
August 5, 2020
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J.C. Pan
The Pandemic Benefit Seems So Great Because Actual Wages Are Insanely Low
It won’t be enough to simply bring back jobs when people weren't making enough in the first place.
April 17, 2020
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J.C. Pan
Essential Jobs, Disposable Workers
A decades-long surge in low-wage jobs has left millions of Americans struggling to make a living even as they hold the country together.
March 4, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Hillary Clinton is tired of tipping.
April 29, 2014
Danny Vinik
Local Governments Have Cut a Staggering Number of Teachers Lately. It Didn't Have to Be That Way.
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