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"Comp-Time" in a Real-time World

Jodie Levin-Epstein | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics
Read More: Parental Leave, Fair Labor Standards Act, Comp-Time, Low-Wage Workers, Maternity Leave, House GOP, Work-Life Balance, Human Resources, Unpaid Overtime, Poverty-Clasp, Working Families Flexibility Act, Paid Family Leave, Eric Cantor, Jodie Levin-Epstein, Low Wages, Wage Theft, Center for Law and Social Policy, Paid Sick Days, Family Leave, Healthy Families Act, Makinglifework, Politics News
Jodie Levin-Epstein

Overtime pay is not just to be kind to workers. It also counteracts the absence of a federal statute that sets a ceiling on weekly work hours. What's to keep an employer from routinely asking for 70 hours and firing employees if they refuse?

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Arthur Delaney

Dems Not Backing SNAP Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.22.2012 | Politics
Read More: Obama Farm Bill, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Video, Food Stamp Program, Repbulicans Food Stamps, Food Stamps, Democrats Food Stamps, Center for Law and Social Policy, Harry Reid, Debbie Stabenow, Food Resource Action Center, Snap, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, Food Stamp Law, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In order to help pay for a series of high-priority spending bills in 2010, congressional Democrats raided future funding for food stamps...

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U.S. To Fall Short Of 2025 College Grads Goal -- By 24 Million Degrees

| Jon Marcus | Posted 06.27.2012 | Home
Read More: Graduation, Graduates, Center for Law and Social Policy, 2025 College Graduate Goal, Employment, College Attainment Rates, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, Higher Education, College Graduates, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Video, Home News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. Despite persistent appeals from policymakers and politicians to increas...

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