Nixon flirted with the right in his successful 1968 presidential campaign, but as president he reverted, introducing the most comprehensive wages-and-prices policy in American history.In 1980 Reagan succeeded, where Goldwater failed and Nixon only half-tried, in putting together a conservative governing coalition.
Mizobuchi (2015) proposes an alternative decomposition of the change in unit labor cost (ULC) with a measure of a comprehensive wage effect.
We propose an alternative decomposition of the change in ULC with a measure of a comprehensive wage effect, which fully captures its direct as well as indirect impact.
Ideally, the exactness should hold under flexible functional forms such as the translog functional form, which imposes the minimum on the underlying production technology.12 However, we leave the search for such superlative index number formulae of the comprehensive wage effect for ULC change to future research.
In a 5-4 Harris v. Quinn decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court doubled down on its anti-worker, pro-corporate personhood agenda, ruling that home care providers who receive the benefits of a union bargaining fair wages on their behalf do not have to actually pay anything for that comprehensive, wage-boosting bargaining work by the union.
On the same day, New York enacted a less-comprehensive wage increase that activists also greeted as a victory.
"We are one step closer to making history in Los Angeles by adopting a comprehensive minimum wage policy that will change the lives of hundreds of thousands of hard-working Angelenos," said Hicks.
Governor Jerry Brown and the overwhelmingly-Democratic legislature didn't just wake up one morning and decide to pass the most comprehensive minimum wage hike in the country.
Federally-funded childcare seems like a pipe dream; livable wages, comprehensive benefits and collective bargaining arrangements for all workers feel similarly far off.
Mishel said that the president had a bold and comprehensive agenda on wages ― but that wasn't clear even to many of the workers who would benefit from it.
We've taken on the fights for equal pay and a living wage, comprehensive immigration reform, and LGBTQ equality.
