Posted on 06/13/17 by Hannah Halbert (she/her) in Work & Wages
Workers’ comp bill puts politics before worker safety Nearly 105,000 Ohio workers were hurt at work in 2015, and more than 200 lost their lives. Families depend on the workers’ compensation system to make sure that when a breadwinner is hurt at work, she gets treated, and the family has an income to rely on while she recovers. But a provision in this year’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation budget (HB 27) would bar that protection for undocumented immigrants – putting them and their coworkers in harm’s way. This bill has already passed the Ohio House and is now being debated in the... read more
Posted on 06/09/17 by Michael Shields (he/him) in Work & Wages
More than 200 Ohio workers were killed on the job in 2015 alone. Nearly 105,000 others were hurt or made sick by exposure to workplace hazards. Workers’ Compensation laws are designed not only to treat... read more
Posted on 03/28/17 by Hannah Halbert (she/her) in Work & Wages
Acosta has a history of acting along partisan lines [image:1] After the failed nomination of Andrew Puzder for Secretary of Labor, the Trump administration put forward Alexander Acosta, dean of the Florida International University College of Law... read more
Posted on 01/06/17 in Work & Wages
Caught between work and childcare, families with kids under 5 more likely to be poor [image:1] Photo from Bureau of Labor Statistics Expectant parents working in Washington DC had an extra reason to celebrate last month. The City... read more
Posted on 12/20/16 by Amy Hanauer in Work & Wages
The amazing new Race Anthology: Dispatches and artifacts from a segregated city features a comic strip, poetry, interviews and essays, including this essay by Policy Matters Executive Director Amy Hanauer. Written before the election and... read more
Posted on 03/29/16 by Hannah Halbert (she/her) in Work & Wages
Fair share is fair. That was the finding of an equally divided U.S. Supreme Court, which today issued a one-sentence decision that upheld nearly 40 years of legal precedent and the right of public sector workers... read more
Posted on 09/16/15 by Hannah Halbert (she/her) in Work & Wages
Full-time employment has rebounded to pre-recession levels, but new census data shows wages are so low that 1.4 million more workers are living in poverty compared to 2007. The data released today by the U.S. Census... read more
Posted on 07/10/15 in Work & Wages
No woman should ever have to choose between her job and her pregnancy. But that’s the choice some expectant mothers in Ohio are facing right now. As a working mom of two young girls, I know... read more
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