A group of bars and restaurants in Eau Claire are raising their minimum wage to $16 per hour and getting rid of tips. Laura Dresser is interviewed on WPR’s Central Time.
Month: June 2021
Raise the Wage Act for Child Care Workers Press Release
Contacts Laura Dresser, COWS Associate Director (ldresser@cows.org, 608-695-9065) or Daithi Wolfe, Kids Forward Senior Early Education Analyst (dwolfe@kidsforward.org 608-513-5246) For immediate release $15 by 2025 would Raise Wages for 2/3 of Wisconsin’s Child Care …
Will California Investment in New Job Training Programs Pay Off? – Lost Coast Outpost
Though growing in popularity as a part of state policy and spending, “High Road” is not a new idea. It started out as a concept discussed in academic and advocacy circles; in 1990, University of …
Raise the Wage Act Would Increase Pay for 2/3 of Child Care Workers in Wisconsin
June 18, 2021 From COWS and Kids Forward Background The Economic Policy Institute recently released a report showing that the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 would raise wages for more than a half-million child …
Wisconsin’s Democrats Make New Play To Increase Minimum Wage – WORT/89.9 FM
On Thursday, June 17, 2021, Laura Dresser spoke at the Minimum Wage Bill Press Conference in Madison, WI. A 2019 poll by Marquette University found that 55% percent of Wisconsinites support raising the minimum wage, …
Wages, child care and more: Why the labor market isn’t growing
“These jobs aren’t the same jobs they were a year ago, and our lives aren’t the same lives that they were a year ago,” says Laura Dresser, associate director of COWS at the University of …
Labor negotiations escalate at South Dakota pork plant
“This is a moment when workers have leverage right now,” said Laura Dresser, a labor economist at COWS, a liberal think tank at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.