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What Walmart Can Do to Raise the Wages of Its Workers

On Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV, Demos Senior Policy Analyst Catherine Ruetschlin discusses Walmart's short-sighted labor practices and what the company can do to raise the wages of its employees. 

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Leveraging Public Funding to Strengthen Worker Protections

A successful union drive at a bus manufacturing company demonstrates how employers listen to their workers much better when their public funding is on the line.

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Nick Wertsch
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Building Worker Power With Public Funding at the State and Local Levels

Discover how state and local policies can effectively protect workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively. This brief examines approaches to worker protection through federal funding opportunities and provides real-world examples of successful policy implementation by workers and communities.

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Nick Wertsch
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15 Years and Counting: Why We Can’t Afford to Ignore the Federal Minimum Wage Any Longer

The federal minimum wage’s 86-year history shows us that we used to know how to get this done. 

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Udochi Onwubiko