Archive: In the News

• What you missed in the world of worker justice over the holidays

  Did you go off the grid for the holidays to spend valuable time with loved ones? Did you neglect your email inbox and Twitter account in favor of baked goods, gift exchanges, and the new Star War

  Category: In the News Tags: Christmas, Daily News, Friedrichs, Harold Meyerson, Holidays, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, NLRB, Wall Street

• Kalmanovitz Initiative Fellow Moderates Town Hall with President Obama

  [caption id="attachment_3116" align="aligncenter" width="946"] KI Practitioner Fellow Michelle Miller facilitating a Town Hall discussion with President Obama.[/caption] Yesterday’s Summit on Worker

  Categories: In the News, Practitioner Fellows Tags: Coworker.org, Jess Kutz, Michelle Miler, Practitioner Fellows, Practitioner Fellowship, President Obama, White House, Worker Voice Summit

• Clara Mejía reports on #Encuentro2015

  Clara Mejía Orta (COL '17) reflects on her experience attending the Student/Farmworker Alliance’s annual Encuentro in fall 2015. We at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor were gl

  Categories: In the News, Student Leaders Tags: Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Student Farmworker Alliance

• WCP: A New Leader for Labour in the UK

  We are very proud that John Russo, our Visiting Scholar for the 2015-16 academic year, brings the renowned Working-Class Perspectives blog to the Kalmanovitz Initiative. The blog is edited by Jo

  Categories: In the News, Student Leaders Tags: Jeremy Corbyn, John Russo, Labour Party, Tim Strangleman, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• KI and DC Jobs with Justice Release Report on Just Hours in Washington, DC

  On June 11, DC Jobs with Justice, the Jobs With Justice Education Fund, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Kalmanovitz Initiative released the first-ever study on service sector scheduling prac

  Categories: In the News, Reports

• In the News: Defending the Common Good in the New York Times

  [caption id="attachment_2270" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Photo by Andrew Sullivan for The New York Times.[/caption] This month, the New York Times turned to Kalmanovitz Initiative experts twice

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, In the News Tag: Joseph A. McCartin

• In the News: Workers' Fights in the Washington City Paper

  Mike Paarlberg, a former graduate assistant for the Kalmanovitz Initiative, wrote about the wage theft epidemic affecting DC area day laborers for this week's cover story of the Washington City Pape

  Categories: Day Laborer Exchange, In the News

• In the News: The State of the Bank Employee on Wall Street

  Georgetown graduate student and Kalmanovitz Initiative research assistant Jordana Hoyt is making headlines with a report she authored entitled "The State of the Bank Employee on Wall Street." Findin

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, In the News

• Catholic Scholar Unveils Major Case Study on Workers Rights and Socially Responsible Investment in the Hotel Industry

  The clarity of Catholic Social Teaching on workers' rights was reinforced by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2009 encyclical letter, Caritas in Veritate, which reminded readers of "the duties of solidarity"

  Categories: In the News, Uncategorized

• Poet Laureate Philip Levine on the Kalmanovitz Initiative and Georgetown University

  The following interview with Philip Levine was conducted by Donna Urschel, a Public Affairs Specialist in the Library of Congress's Office of Communications, and originally published in the March 30 i

  Category: In the News Tag: Philip Levine