Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers

Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers

Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers

Pay stagnation is often caused not by market forces or trends but by employer design.

Source: www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/opinion/corporate-america-suppressing-wages.html

Who’s Missing From America’s Colleges? Rural High School Graduates

Who’s Missing From America’s Colleges? Rural High School Graduates

Who’s Missing From America’s Colleges? Rural High School Graduates

Fewer than 1 in 5 rural adults ages 25 and older have college degrees.

Source: www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/02/15/581895659/whos-missing-from-america-s-colleges-rural-high-school-graduates

3. Views of gun safety and the key responsibilities of gun owners

America’s Complex Relationship With Guns

America’s Complex Relationship With Guns

Americans have broad exposure to guns, whether they personally own one or not. About seven-in-ten say they have fired a gun at some point and 42% currently live in a gun-owning household.

Source: www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/americas-complex-relationship-with-guns/

Battling treacherous office chairs and aching backs, aging cops and firefighters miss years of work and collect twice the pay

Battling treacherous office chairs and aching backs, aging cops and firefighters miss years of work and collect twice the pay

Battling treacherous office chairs and aching backs, aging cops and firefighters miss years of work and collect twice the pay

L.A. doubled the pay of cops, firefighters. Then they go on long leaves, costing taxpayers millions

Source: www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-drop-20180203-htmlstory.html

Baltimore police recruits set to hit the streets with poor understanding of law, academy’s legal instructor says

Baltimore police recruits set to hit the streets with poor understanding of law, academy’s legal instructor says

Baltimore police recruits set to hit the streets with poor understanding of law, academy’s legal instructor says

A significant number of Baltimore Police academy recruits set to graduate and become cops on Saturday lack a basic understanding of the laws governing constitutional policing and are being pushed through by the department anyway, according to the academy’s head of legal instruction.

Source: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-recruits-law-understanding-20180202-story.html

Five Blue States Could Determine Who Controls The House In 2018

Five Blue States Could Determine Who Controls The House In 2018

Five Blue States Could Determine Who Controls The House In 2018

New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen’s retirement announcement this week wasn’t a game changer in the battle for control of the House of Representatives. Even b…

Source: fivethirtyeight.com/features/five-blue-states-could-determine-who-controls-the-house-in-2018/

Notable testimony from the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption trial, updated with Day 5

Notable testimony from the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption trial, updated with Day 5

Notable testimony from the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption trial, updated with Day 5

Here’s a rundown of what we’ve learned from the trial of two police officers from the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.

Source: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gun-trace-task-force-gttf-testimony-highlights-20180126-story.html

Cook County property tax rates: Look up your town, estimate your bill

Cook County property tax rates: Look up your town, estimate your bill

Cook County property tax rates: Look up your town, estimate your bill

Property tax rates for 134 towns in Cook County and how they changed from last year

Source: www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-2016-cook-county-property-tax-rates-htmlstory.html

Why Is It So Hard for Americans to Get a Decent Raise? Economists Have a Dark New Theory.

Why Is It So Hard for Americans to Get a Decent Raise? Economists Have a Dark New Theory.

Why Is It So Hard for Americans to Get a Decent Raise? Economists Have a Dark New Theory.

The answer could change how we think about unions, monopolies, and the minimum wage.

Source: slate.com/business/2018/01/a-new-theory-for-why-americans-cant-get-a-raise.html