Quote of the Day, March 18, 2013- excerpted from a Nick Wing piece in Huffington Post on last week’s Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing.  Senat[...]

 Quote of the Day, July 17, 2012 Labor Ready’s business customers are billed for the temp workers’ wages, plus fees that cover things like workers compensation insurance, payroll t[...]

Quote of the Day, July 16, 2012 Back at the Labor Ready office, I have to wait nearly 30 minutes to receive my check. The job paid $8 an hour—minimum wage. For five hours of labor,[...]

It’s still dark when I show up at the Labor Ready storefront in downtown Oakland, California, just a few blocks from the plaza where the Occupy crowd threw up its tents again[...]

The EHRP Team winced when we saw this story, reported by Tony Pugh in McClatchy Newspapers: For nearly a year, unemployed home health worker Leslie Gilbert of Grand Rapids, Mich., [...]

Quote of the Day, June 6, 2012 Our research shows that states’ wage theft laws are grossly inadequate, contributing to a rising trend in workplace violations that affects millions [...]

Quote of the Day, May 29, 2012 On top of how awful the wages are for so many jobs, wage theft adds up to an astonishing number of dollars because employers take brutal advantage of[...]

I recently had the opportunity to talk with Georgetown Law professor, Peter Edelman, to discuss his decades of anti-poverty work and his new book, So Rich So Poor: Why It’s So Hard[...]

Do you know which population turns out to be a remarkably lucrative source of revenue for both the private and the public sector in the U.S. today? You might be surprised to learn [...]

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky[...]