Liu blasts mayor's living wage bill study
Comptroller John Liu is weighing in on what's amounting to a controversial report produced by the city's Economic Development Corporation that called the positive affects of a proposed mandatory wage...
View ArticleNYC's Economic Development Corporation defends living wage report
EDC released a statement in response to the criticism it's received over a new report on a proposed living wage bill. The statement:It should come as no surprise that some stakeholders are disappointed...
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Quinn: We have to respond to loss of hope felt by protesters
Council Speaker Quinn, right, with members of the DUMBO BID (Courtesy of the NYC Council / William Alatriste)City Council Speaker Christine Quinn stopped by WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to talk about,...
View ArticleLiving Wage bill proponents weigh in ahead of tomorrow's hearing
Note: I originally stated the hearing was being held today--it's being held tomorrow at 1 pm. My apologies.As WNYC's Yasmeen Khan reports, the City Council today is holding a hearing on the revised...
View ArticleNYC living wage battle well-worn subject matter
It turns out the current battle over a living wage bill that would raise the pay of workers in a select number of city-sponsored work environments is old hat. According to Doug Turetsky of the city's...
View ArticleNYC voters support the living wage bill
On more quick Quinnipiac poll finding.By a ratio of nearly 3-to-1, voters across all political affiliations support the passage of the living wage bill that's been proposed in the City Council."True to...
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De Blasio makes his move on living wage in New York City
Updated with additional statements below.Colby Hamilton/WNYCAs the New York Times reported today, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has thrown his support behind the contentious living wage bill sitting...
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Future mayor hopefuls (mostly) criticize Bloomberg's State of the City
Colby Hamilton / WNYCAfter Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s State of the City speech at Morris High School auditorium this afternoon, elected officials began giving their post-speech reaction on the floor of...
View ArticleCouncil Speaker Quinn to announce living wage deal at 2:30 pm
We'll have details as they come in.
View ArticleCouncil Speaker Quinn announces living wage bill
Below are the Speaker's remarks announcing the agreement. Additional reactions are included after:For the past year, we have had a debate in the City Council about how to bring more jobs to New York in...
View ArticleRevised Living Wage Bill
Letitia James, City Council Member from District 35 in Brooklyn, discusses the living wage bill, paid sick leave and other City Council issues.
View ArticleQuinn Might (Or Might Not) Still Have One Biz Group's Support for Living Wage
This week, the Partnership for New York City, a prominent business group pulled its support for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's living wage bill. The group and the speaker evidently didn't see...
View ArticleMayor Vetoes Prevailing Wage Bill
As expected, Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the "prevailing wage" bill passed overwhelmingly by the City Council last month. He said it will hurt the city's economy by forcing some employers, and not others,...
View ArticleLook | What Is a Living Wage in New York City?
The City Council is voting on a living wage bill Monday.WNYC took to the streets to see what New Yorkers thought should be considered a "living wage" in the city — and, from Wall Street to the South...
View ArticleAs Expected, City Council Passes Living Wage Bill by Wide Margin
After months of citywide debate, amended bills and two lengthy legislative hearings, city council members officially passed the so-called living wage bill Monday by a 45 to 5 vote.The legislation,...
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Planet Money on Disability
Chana Joffe-Walt, reporter for NPR's Planet Money, discusses her This American Life piece on the rise in the number of people on disability.
View ArticleFast Item #5: Fast Food Workers
There are 50,000 fast food workers in New York City, and the new Fast Food Forward coalition is petitioning for higher and more stable wages. Joseph Barrera, who works at KFC, testified before the City...
View ArticleSupporters Rally for Living Wage as City Council Revisits Bill
As the city council revives the debate over a living wage bill on Tuesday, more than a thousand people packed Riverside Church Monday night to show their support for the measure."Your voices are being...
View ArticleLiving Wage Bill Debated in Committee
Friends and foes of a local living wage bill packed a New York City Council committee hearing Tuesday to examine the merits of a revised version of the legislation.The proposed bill, called the Fair...
View ArticleCity Council Ends Stalemate Over Living Wage Bill
A City Council stalemate over a so-called living wage bill has ended with a deal that could raise the pay for several hundred workers a year at city-subsidized developments.City Council Speaker...
View ArticleMayor Will Sue After Council Overrides ‘Living Wage’ Veto
Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the City’s Council’s overriding of his living wage bill veto “predictable” – saying Friday he plans to sue.Speaking on his weekly WOR-AM radio show, the mayor said the...
View ArticleJudge Rules a New Wage Law Invalid
In a victory for Mayor Bloomberg, a state supreme court judge has deemed a so-called Prevailing Wage Law invalid. After overriding a mayoral veto, the law was passed by the city council in the spring...
View ArticleHow One Homeless Woman Helped Double the Paychecks of 1,400 Workers
Natalie Abreu, a single mother of three, lived in a homeless shelter in the Bronx, while commuting to her job as a cleaner at a casino in Queens. The trip could take two hours each way or longer,...
View ArticleChristmas To You; Changing Wages; Politics Here and There
Over 90 percent of Americans celebrate Christmas. We’ll hear about the different ways you and your family celebrate the Yuletide holiday. Plus: WNYC’s Charlie Herman on the difference between the...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Changes
Minimum wages are going up by nearly a dollar in New York and New Jersey on January 1. Charlie Herman, business and economics editor for WNYC News, reviews the details and explains who's exempt and...
View ArticleNext on De Blasio's Progressive To-Do List: Jobs
As Mayor Bill de Blasio starts his second month in office, he said he's committed to strengthening New York's middle class through new policies and government investment that will help set a new...
View ArticleRaising the Living Wage
Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed in an executive order that will lead to an expansion of the living wage law, which is expected to reach out to thousands of more families. New York Times' '"The Working...
View ArticleWhat Are You Worth? Reconsidering the Minimum Wage
Click on the audio player above to hear this story.Yesterday, the New York State wage board finalized its recommendation for a substantial increase in the minimum wage for fast food workers. If the...
View ArticleEven With New Year Increases, The Minimum Wage Is Nearly Impossible to Live On
Click on the audio player above to hear this segment.California and Massachusetts are raising their minimum wages to $10 an hour in 2016, the highest state-wide minimum wage in the country. They are...
View ArticleNew York, California Raise the Bar on Minimum Wage
Today, California Governor Jerry Brown signs a $15 minimum wage into law. The Golden State will now have the nation's highest minimum wage, something that will affect the pay of an estimated 5.6...
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Walmart Wages, Does Obama Love America? Violent Extremism
Walmart workers get a raise, Guiliani says the president doesn't love America, Obama talks violent extremism.
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Why are early childhood educators struggling to make ends meet?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Now a look at how pre-K teachers and early child care workers struggle to make ends meet, earning little better than subsistence wages, even as...
View ArticleA Reporter's Housing Crisis, Aparna Nancherla on Netflix, Deporting a U.S....
Wall Street Journal reporter Ryan Dezember discusses his recent essay, “My 10-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis.” Comedian, actor and Twitter-sensation Aparna Nancherla talks about her new...
View ArticleGlobalizing the Fight for a Living Wage
Annelise Orleck, professor of history at Dartmouth, discusses her new book "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages. She details how low-wage workers are rising up...
View ArticleNYFF Week 2, Paying Pro Cheerleaders, Fishko on Playboy
Stephen Nessen and City Councilmember Stephen Levin discuss BQE's failing infrastructure. Dennis Lim and Florence Almozini give us a preview of what's coming up next at the New York Film Festival....
View ArticleThe BQE Debacle, What's Next at NYFF, Cheerleaders Fight for Fair Pay
A 1.5 mile span of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is falling apart. Now, the city is proposing a repair plan that would shut down the much beloved Brooklyn Promenade for six years. WNYC transportation...
View ArticleDignifying Work
Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council under both President Obama (2011-2014) and President Clinton (1997-2001) and the author of Economic Dignity (Penguin Press, 2020), talks about...
View ArticleTrump Versus the CDC; The City Reaches Out to People With Disabilities;...
Coming up on today's show:Dr. Ashish Jha, professor of Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, explains the relationship...
View ArticleJobs, Guaranteed
Pavlina R. Tcherneva, associate professor at Bard College and research scholar at the Levy Economics Institute and the author of The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity, 2020), talks about the Modern...
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