In November, the House Education & Workforce Committee quietly passed yet another version of the so-called “Working Families Flexibility Act” out of committee with a party-line vote. But will this benevolent-sounding bill actually help workers? Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), our most fundamental labor protections law, most workers are entitled to overtime pay—pay …
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Taking just action against Trump
My 2017 book, The Color of Law, showed that “de facto,” accidental, neighborhood segregation is a myth; in truth, government purposely enforced it, creating racial inequality in wealth, education, employment, health, and criminal justice. Readers asked, “What can we do about it now?” So in 2023, Leah Rothstein and I published a sequel, Just Action, …