The Atlantic: on Jobs


Abby Finkenauer: Opposed state bill reducing collective bargaining rights

The Republican-led state legislature, in February 2017, voted to reduce collective-bargaining rights for some 180,000 public employees. Conservatives celebrated the move as a win for taxpayers and managers in local government, but Finkenauer gave an impassioned floor speech condemning the bill. "You had a lot of union guys who had voted Republican who just saw their rights gutted, their health-care rights, their wages, all of it," Finkenauer tells me.
Source: The Atlantic on 2018 IA-1 House race Jul 29, 2018

Andrew Yang: Most new jobs are gig, temporary, or contractor

Why is it that a job is 9 to 5 or 10 to 6? Ninety-four percent of the new jobs created in the U.S. are gig, temporary, or contractor jobs at this point, and we still just pretend it's the '70s, where it's like, 'You're going to work for a company, you're going to get benefits, you're going to be able to retire, even though we've totally eviscerated any retirement benefits, but somehow you're going to retire,'" We're like, 'Oh, it's all right.' It's not all right.
Source: The Atlantic magazine on 2019 Democratic primary Aug 15, 2019

Kevin Faulconer: Only one-sixth of staff are white, heterosexual males

Just one-sixth of his 29 staff members are white, heterosexual males. He founded a nonprofit called One San Diego that raises money for laptops and after-school programs in underprivileged areas. A booming economy has allowed Faulconer to add community-center hours across the city as well as to break ground on a $13 million new library in a low-income neighborhood. He also makes most of his major announcements in communities of color.
Source: The Atlantic Magazine on 2021 California recall race Jan 3, 2016

Tim Ryan: Progressive goals should be sold as job creation

Democrats can sell progressive goals, from universal health care to criminal-justice reform, if they simply root their arguments in jobs and the economy, he argues. Ryan says that Democrats should package Medicare for all as a "jobs program" that would reduce costs and create jobs for medical professionals. He thinks the Green New Deal could be sold as a boon to job creation. (Although opposed to the resolution's federal jobs guarantee, he thinks it could drive employment in the private sector.)
Source: The Atlantic, "Rust Belt Yogi" on 2020 Democratic primary Mar 15, 2019

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