Issues include:
- Labor trends in Calif. and US, including growing public support for union
- Inequality and policies to address it such as Universal Basic Income and minimum wages
- The job crisis facing Black workers
- Future of work, including rideshare driver wages
- Why childcare teachers earn so little when parents pay so much
Contacts
Penelope Whitney, (510) 643-8756 or penelopewhitney@berkeley.edu
Mariam Hosseini, (510) 643-8756 or mariamh@berkeley.edu
Labor trends in California and the US
Sylvia Allegretto, Co-Chair of UC Berkeley’s Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics
is an expert on growing inequality, wage stagnation, teacher pay, public sector workers, US & CA jobs and unemployment, low-wage work, pay gaps and right-to-work legislation.
Contact: Sylvia Allegretto, (510) 289-9146 or allegretto@berkeley.edu
Minimum wage laws and unions
Ken Jacobs, Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center, studies labor standards, the public cost of low-wage work, unions, and health care policy. He has recently worked on economic impact studies of proposed minimum wage laws for Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Jose.
Contact: Mariam Hosseini, (510) 643-8756 or mariamh@berkeley.edu
Universal Basic Income
Jesse Rothstein is director of UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and
Employment and professor of public policy and economics. He is an expert on Universal Basic Income; Earned Income Tax Credit; the post-Great-Recession labor market; inequality; and how economic mobility (and lack thereof) is passed from one generation to the next.
Contact: Penelope Whitney, (510) 643-8756 or penelopewhitney@berkeley.edu
Job crisis facing Black workers
Steven Pitts, Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center, is an expert on employment challenges facing formerly incarcerated people. Other research includes the job crisis facing Black workers and strategies to address it. He has also founded a Black union leadership school.
Contact: Mariam Hosseini, (510) 643-8756 or mailtomariamh@berkeley.edu
Minimum wage laws and future of work
Michael Reich, Co-Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics and professor of economics at UC Berkeley, is a labor economist. He studies technology and the future of work, minimum wages and their effect on health, and inequality.
Contact: Michael Reich, michaelreich.prof@gmail.com
Why childcare teachers earn so little when parents pay so much
Lea J.E. Austin is co-director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley. She is an expert on the true cost of child care in California, and workplace issues and policies affecting 2 million early childhood educators in the U.S.
Contact: Penelope Whitney, (510) 643-8756 or penelopewhitney@berkeley.edu