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• 10-Point Plan for Texas Unemployment Insurance Reform

  • July 8, 2021
  • Every Texan
  • Jonathan Lewis

  When crisis and calamity take jobs away, the market economy alone cannot provide working people the help they need to make ends meet. That is where the Texas Unemployment Insurance […]

  EARN in the South Unemployment Insurance

• Sick of This: Paid Sick Days Policies Keep Texas Healthy

  • June 5, 2018
  • Every Texan
  • Chandra Villanueva

  All Texans should be able to care for themselves or a loved one if they get sick, regardless of what kind of job they do or how much they earn. Our new […]

  Paid Sick Days

• Clearing the Air Around the Texas Minimum Wage Act

  • May 7, 2018
  • Every Texan
  • Anna Crockett and Chandra Villanueva

  Recognizing that the federal minimum wage falls short of what families need to make ends meet, other states and cities across the country have raised their minimum wages above the […]

  Minimum Wage Preemption 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 […]

  Job Training & Apprenticeships Jobs