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  • 11 Dec 09

  Labor Seeing Green After Copenhagen Climate Talks

  By Michelle Chen The Copenhagen conference is raising tensions and hopes for labor's environmental future. While some unions… more

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  • 04 Dec 09

  Guns and Butter: Labor Takes on Afghanistan

  By Michelle Chen With epidemic joblessness and endless warfare dragging on alongside each other, the political tensionssurrounding… more

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  • 01 Dec 09

  Reevaluating Immigration Reform: What’s it Worth?

  By Michelle Chen The immigration debate these days looks more like a balance sheet than a political conversation.… more

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  • 24 Nov 09

  Trading Tomorrow for Today: Why Saving is So Hard for Poor Families

  By Michelle Chen As the recession bottoms out, we're slowly coming to understand how we got here: a… more

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  • 20 Nov 09

  Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’ Could Pose Hurdles for Teachers

  By Michelle Chen The Obama administration is enlisting the nation's schools in a "Race to the Top," but… more

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  • 17 Nov 09

  After Release, Former Prisoners Robbed of Opportunity

  By Michelle Chen Millions of Americans know how tough it is to break out of unemployment. Few can… more

Latest Comments view all 2

• • 01 Sep 09
  • 5:07 pm

  Thanks for your comments on the Southern Poverty Law Center's survey. The paraphrasing of the findings stated exactly what the SPLC did--that according to the survey, eight in ten respondents *reported* experiencing the theft of their wages. Your points are well taken, though. One could, and should, interrogate the methodology used. Neither the post nor the SPLC argues that they were unbiased (they are an advocacy group after all) or that they drew from a comprehensive randomized sample. The report, in fact, is largely qualitative and based on interviews and media accounts. An academically rigorous piece of social science research? I …

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• • 04 Sep 09
  • 12:49 am

  Thanks, Richard. Regardless of political leanings (or the views of the Better Business Bureau, for that matter), many who follow this issue do note an extreme lack of comprehensive data and statistics about this workforce, which makes this report, among others, worth looking at. And again, I could reiterate what the post's paraphrasing of the report does and does not imply, but, I think readers at this point can turn to the sources and judge for themselves.

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