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Alabama Network publications

• A higher minimum wage would help Alabama families make ends meet and strengthen our state’s economy

  • February 8, 2017
  • Arise Citizens’ Policy Project

  Too many hard-working Alabamians aren’t paid enough to get ahead. Alabama ranks in the bottom third of states for average hourly wages. Around 77,000 Alabamians earn wages at or below the $7.25 per hour minimum established by the federal government in 2009, and another 394,000 earn less than $10 an hour. In the absence of […]

  Minimum Wage Wages

• High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development

  • December 17, 2015
  • Keystone Research Center
  • Stephen Herzenberg

  In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems of workforce development under WIOA. This process creates an unprecedented opportunity to build into each state’s plan concrete ideas for using state and local workforce […]

  Job Training & Apprenticeships Jobs

• The State of Working Alabama 2014: On Labor Day, Alabama workers face high unemployment, lost jobs, stagnant wages and increased inequality

  • August 14, 2014
  • Arise Citizens’ Policy Project
  • Carol Gundlach

  Many Alabama workers may find little reason to celebrate as we approach this Labor Day. The Great Recession is officially over, but the average Alabama worker has not yet recovered from it, as employment and jobs continue to lag behind and wages remain stagnant. Policy analyst Carol Gundlach’s new report, part of ACPP’s State of […]

  State of Working X

• New Americans on Long Island: A Vital Sixth of the Economy

  • October 27, 2011
  • Fiscal Policy Institute
  • David Dyssegaard Kallick

  Immigrants – documented and undocumented combined – make up 16 percent of the population of Long Island, and account for 17 percent of total economic output. This report presents data on jobs, earnings, family income, taxes, and home ownership. Immigrants’ economic role is examined town by town and in a national context as well. Among […]

  Immigration

• Same Work, Less Pay: The Wage Gap in Alabama

  • January 27, 2011
  • Arise Citizens’ Policy Project

  Imagine the uproar if football officials suddenly were to declare touchdowns worth six points for one team but only five points for the other. Many workers both in Alabama and nationwide encounter just that sort of shortfall with every paycheck they receive. Despite decades of steady improvement, sizable earnings gaps remain between women and men […]

  Gender Wage Gap Racial Wage Gap Wages