21. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 2 – 6, 2012
(Matching tags: work sharing, education, taxes, AAPI)

The following papers are highlights this week in labor market policy research: Center for American Progress Taking Action on Clean Energy and Climate Protection in 2012: A Menu of Effective and Feasible ...

22. Three New Briefs Confirm It: The Minimum Wage is Way Too Low
(Matching tags: health care, education, minimum wage, age)

... average wages, and productivity. In the second paper, John and his co-author, CEPR Research Intern Marie-Eve Augier, look at "Affording Health Care and Education on the Minimum Wage." They find that ...

23. College Comparisons
(Matching tags: education)

... that have the equivalent of a four-year college degree or more. Source: OECD via Jared Bernstein. The dark blue squares show the share of the population age 55-64 with a college education; the ...

24. Affording Health Care and Education on the Minimum Wage
(Matching tags: health care, education, minimum wage)

... have to work to pay for a year of college education (at various kinds of institutions) or a year of health insurance (for an individual or a family). The table compares the experience facing a minimum-wage ...

25. Divergent Revolutions for Blacks, Latinos and Whites
(Matching tags: inequality, education, gender, equal pay)

... equality among African-Americans. Part of this greater convergence in wages is caused by a divergence in educational completion. In 1980, equal numbers (17 percent) of black men and women had a college ...

26. Did the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Put Public Education on the Shelf?
(Matching tags: reconstruction, duvalier, ihrc, education)

... of public education, concluding: The fact that the Haitian government and its “friends” have not financed the reconstruction – and a sufficient operating budget – of the oldest and most important institution ...

27. Charles Murray, Trade Unionist
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, unions, copyrights, education, labor)

I've only read the prologue and first chapter of Charles Murray's new book on growing class inequality. (That's all that I can download for free on my e-reader—I'm looking forward to reading the rest when ...

28. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Nov. 21 – Dec. 2, 2011
(Matching tags: labor market, education)

EPRN, NELP, and PERI recently released new labor market policy reports. Employment Policy Research Network Raising Job Quality and Skills for American Workers: Creating More-Effective Education and ...