Patricia Miller was interviewed on the show State of Belief with Rev. Welton Gaddy about the history of the “Scarlet ‘A’” in America—abortion. Her book, Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in …
Read More >Many economists view San Francisco’s labor standards as a model for the rest of the country. From mandatory healthcare expenditures to a high minimum wage, the city has been a “vanguard of …
Read More >Judith Levine, author of Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters, joined MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry for a panel on the challenges facing single mothers from low-income backgrounds, …
Read More >Follow the link and register for your chance to win a free copy of the paperback edition of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom …
Read More >Ethan N. Elkind has some advice for the city of Los Angeles, currently underway on the construction of a multibillion-dollar rail network project. “Rail is expensive to build, operate and maintain compared …
Read More >San Francisco was also one of the first cities to increase the minimum wage beyond the federal level and mandate better benefits for low-income workers. The wage increase went into effect in …
Read More >When Mandates Work looks at the public policy experiments of San Francisco in the 1990s to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Although opponents predicted a range of negative impacts, …
Read More >Women who do not trust employers to treat them fairly quit their jobs. Women who do not trust the fathers of their children to be reliable financial and emotional supports do not …
Read More >November 22nd marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Few American figures are as iconic as JFK, and UC Press joins the millions of Americans today in remembering …
Read More >Watch Arin Dube, contributing author to When Mandates Work, respond to Elizabeth Warren’s statements on increasing the minimum wage. Dube discusses why minimum wage has not kept pace with productivity over the …
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