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

  • June 5, 2018
  • Center for Public Policy Priorities
  • 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 policy brief examines the inadequate access to paid sick days in Texas and highlights how businesses and families can thrive when workers are able to earn […]

  Paid Sick Days

• Clearing the Air Around the Texas Minimum Wage Act

  • May 7, 2018
  • Center for Public Policy Priorities
  • 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 federal level of $7.25 an hour. No Texas cities have done this because Texas state law currently stops cities and counties from making most local […]

  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 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 […]

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