A new book, Behind the Kitchen Door by Saru Jayaraman, is a revealing account of the restaurant industry seen through the eyes of its workers. One of the largest private employment sectors, this growing industry employs more than 10 million workers, many of whom struggle to make ends meet.
Steven T. Dennis and Humberto Sanchez writes for Roll Call: “The pall that hung over the Capitol last week after Congress failed to do anything about the sequester has lifted — if only a bit.”
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon writes at The Atlantic: “I thought of this class mismatch recently as I’ve followed the discussion surrounding Sheryl Sandberg’s upcoming book, Lean In. Suddenly, and for the first time in a while, a bunch of major news outlets are talking about working-class women. All of a sudden a media that has rarely Read more …
Enough already about sequestration. The massive budget cuts that make up the looming sequester are self-imposed and, like last fall’s so-called “fiscal cliff,” present us with two bad alternatives for funding the United States government. This time the choices are: (a) across-the-board cuts in military and social spending with no tax increases; or (b) some Read more …
Natasha Lennard at Salon writes: “A new Brandeis University social sciences study highlights that the wealth gap between white and black people has ballooned in recent decades. The study argues that ‘the dramatic gap in household wealth that now exists a…