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September 15, 2018
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LERA eBulletin
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In the News | Get Involved | More Reading
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Michael Lillich
LERA writer-editor
Bernadette Tiemann
LERA managing editor
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Get Involved ...
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In the News
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And in CNN Politics’ “Wages are growing, White House insists.”
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 David Neumark (UC-Irvine) wrote a Wall Street Journal (subscription required) op-ed “Do what it takes to promote work.” He argues against raising the minimum wage and for increasing the Earned-Income Tax Credit.
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Contact Michael Lillich, LERA writer-editor, with items of interest to LERA members for consideration in future eBulletins.
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Submit a session (or paper) proposal to the LERA Program Committee by November 15, 2018, details here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/71st-lera-call. The LERA 71st Annual Meeting “Ahead of the Curve: Challenges Posed by Technology and the New Work Force” will happen June 13-16, 2019 in Cleveland, OH.
Registration is open for [email protected] 2019, January 4-6, 2019 in Atlanta, GA. Register here: https://conf.aeaweb.org. Join us for 18 LERA sessions over three days. Visit our meeting page at https://lera.memberclicks.net/lera-assa-meeting-january for complete details.
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More Reading, Viewing and Listening
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Aaron Sojourner (Minnesota) is quoted in “Associated Press Fact Check: Trump on black unemployment.”
Michael Belzer (Wayne State) has an op-ed, “Truck Drivers are Overtired, Overworked and Underpaid,” posted on WBUR’s “The Conversation.”
Paying less than minimum wage is bad for tipped workers, hard to enforce, and adds extra liabilities for restaurant owners, writes Sylvia Allegretto (UC-Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment) in a new policy brief.
Michael Reich and his research on Uber drivers’ pay in New York City are cited liberally in this article in the New York Times.
Save the date for the LERA 71st Annual Meeting, June 13-16, 2019, Cleveland, OH