LSER Experts In the News

KPFA Radio’s Flashpoints interviews Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization about her new study on minimum wage compliance in San Francisco.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports more than half of the city’s domestic workers are victims of wage theft, quoting Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization and citing a study she co-authored with research fellows Daniel Galvin and Jenn Round.

HuffPost interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan about why the boycott by NBA, WNBA, and MLB players was actually a strike.

Bloomberg Government reports the Campaign Workers Guild has negotiated 51 contracts since 2018, quoting Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

Vanity Fair writes about the disconnect between police unions and the rest of organized labor, quoting Sheri Davis of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

The Counter reports on the FDA’s new worker safety checklist, quoting Susan Schurman who says “there’s no way to know if anyone’s following it.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education writes about how unions representing faculty, staff, and graduate students are now working together to protect their members during the pandemic, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

Forbes publishes a column about the persistent turnout gap between voters with and without disabilities, citing studies by Douglas Kruse and Lisa Schur of the Program for Disability Research.

Insider NJ publishes a press release by New Jersey Policy Perspective, noting that Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work is among the economists urging the state’s leaders to avoid cutting health and social services.

Law360 Tax Authority interviews Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work about why she joined 95 other economists and economic policy experts in writing a letter to state leaders.