Archive: In the News
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CEPR Report on Unionization Trends
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) released a report last month on trends in unionization over the past fifty years. The report, which was written by John Schmitt and Alexandra Mituki
Category: In the News
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Executive Director interviewed by NPR's Diane Rehm
Joseph A. McCartin was the guest in the second hour of NPR's The Diane Rehm Show on September 7. He spoke about his forthcoming book, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, a
Category: In the News
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KI Executive Director Testifies before NLRB
On July 18 and July 19, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board held an open meeting on its proposed rule changes in representation cases. These changes are designed to reduce litigation, streamli
Category: In the News