The Great Female Resignation: Why so many women left their jobs when the COVID-19 pandemic hit
“The intensity of that collapse is truly historic,” labor economist Laura Dresser said.
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“The intensity of that collapse is truly historic,” labor economist Laura Dresser said.
The number of available Wisconsin workers remains small as people leave the labor force. Interview with Laura Dresser by Erik Gunn in November 19, 2021, Wisconsin Examiner.
“The pandemic really exacerbated and exposed some underlying issues in these labor markets, and those are issues relating to low wage jobs and gender inequality in the way we think about the distribution of care work,” Laura Dresser, COWS associate director, said last week.
The UW Now Livestream presents Understanding the Labor Shortage Tuesday, October 12, 2021 7p CT Permanent Link Wisconsin Alumni Association YouTube channel The labor market continues to be an obstacle to a full economic recovery, leading many analysts to reduce their growth forecasts for the U.S. economy. There are many potential explanations as to why …
Wisconsin Examiner‘s Erik Gunn covers union expansion in the Milwaukee suburbs. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour for more than a decade, and activists seeking to raise it have promoted the $15 target for nearly as long. According to calculations from COWS, a University of Wisconsin research and policy center, if the …
WUWM’s Lake Effect interviews Laura Dresser about Wisconsin’s Low Wage Workers & COWS Annual Labor Report.
As Labor Day 2021 rolls around, Wisconsin workers face their greatest opportunity for wage growth and unionization in years. The post Wisconsin’s Labor Movement is Having a Big Moment appeared first on UpNorthNews | Wisconsin News For You.
“Many of the problems that the State of Working Wisconsin has documented for more than two decades were really exposed and exacerbated by the COVID pandemic and its impact on work,” said Laura Dresser. “The very workers that have faced the worst wage trends, faced the hardest conditions in their jobs were the workers who were …
Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time interviews Laura Dresser on the new “Working Wisconsin” report, tracking the trends in wages, jobs and organization for the state’s labor force during the last year. We find out about how a turbulent economic year affected Wisconsin’s workers. Read the full article at: https://www.wpr.org/where-employment-wages-and-unions-stand-wisconsin
Unions in Wisconsin are significantly weaker than they were a decade ago and wage growth over the past quarter-century was stagnant, according to a new report from COWS, a policy institute housed at UW–Madison. Read the full article at: https://madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-matters/report-unions-weaker-wages-stagnant-in-wisconsin-in-recent-years/article_df14a577-d1d0-553a-9a9e-cf190f3c9bf1.html