Glenn Beamer (USciences): Living Wage Politics in the U.S. States: Understanding Race, Labor, and Party Politics. Richard L. Trumka, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., has a bold plan to reverse organized labor’s long slide: let millions of nonunion workers — and perhaps environmental, immigrant and other advocacy groups — join the labor federation. Elizabeth Cline on how fashion models are workers, too. Home care workers just got a long-awaited rule change that will give them minimum wage and overtime protections — here's why it matters. Adam Weinstein: “Fuck you. I’m Gen Y, and I don't feel special or entitled, just poor”. Being poor changes your thinking about everything: Harold Pollack interviews Sendhil Mullainathan, co-author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. The official poverty rate last year was 15 percent — here’s what that misses. Sasha Abramsky on how the South killed the safety net: Europeans came to this country for a better life — it hasn't always meant helping the less fortunate. Chris Lehmann on George Packer: The Unwinding is a fine-grained account of economic collapse that runs aground on causeless abstractions (and more). The Protestant work ethic is real: We finally have some answers for why Americans work so hard. Scott McLemee reviews Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream by Benjamin Kline Hunnicut.
