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Labor economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley
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Sylvia Allegretto
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FROM Sylvia Allegretto
Which Way, L.A.?
Changes to California Minimum Wage and Wage Equality Laws The fight for a fair wage continues in 2016, when the state will raise its minimum wage once again, to $10 an hour. But women in particular have cause to celebrate next year as California will now have one of the toughest equal pay laws in the country. Sylvia Allegretto, an economist and co-director of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley, has more on the changes in the state's wage laws set to take effect January.
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IKEA and Gap Raise Wages Recent moves by Gap and IKEA to raise wages for workers have been heralded as a step toward a living wage for all. But should we have to rely on private companies to step in where the government has stepped out? And is $10 an hour really a living wage?
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Terrorism and tweets, hate speech and murder Just days before an election, Britain is coping with a rash of deadly terrorism, and Prime Minister Theresa May is on the defensive. And again today, President Trump has tweeted criticism of the Mayor of London. Later, a double murder in Portland, Oregon has revealed the ugly past of a supposedly “progressive” city. One immediate question: is “hate speech” protected by the First Amendment?
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Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.