Annette Bernhardt
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Annette Bernhardt is Policy Co-Director at the National Employment Law Project, where she coordinates policy and research support for campaigns around living wage jobs, immigrant worker rights and accountable development. A leading scholar of low-wage work, she has helped develop and analyze innovative policy responses to the changing nature of work in the United States. She has published widely in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and the Journal of Labor Economics, among others. She co-edited The Gloves-Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America's Labor Market and was most recently lead author of Working Without Laws: A Survey of Employment and Labor Law Violations in New York City. She received Princeton University’s Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations and Cornell University’s Center for the Study of Inequality Distinguished Book Award, among others. Dr. Bernhardt received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1993.

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Wage Policy from the Grassroots

Posted June 3, 2010 | 11:47:05 (EST)

When it comes to labor issues, the policy mantra during recessions - and recoveries - is that wages are off the table. The argument sounds formidable: the economy is too weak, employers are only starting to dip their toes in the water, and any attempt to raise wages will choke...

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Wages on the Front Burner

Posted December 1, 2006 | 09:41:53 (EST)

On November 7, voters in six states were asked if they wanted to raise their state's minimum wage. The answer at the ballot box in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and Ohio was a loud and resounding yes. In an election of deep partisan divides, the minimum wage was the...

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