Author: Scarlett Swerdlow
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Will Chicago suffer the same fate as Detroit?
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Standard & Poor’s Senior Director Jane Ridley, who serves as S&P’s primary analyst for Detroit, recounts the factors that drove Detroit to bankruptcy and explains why the Windy City is unlikely to go bust.
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Why it’s time to raise the wage: An interview with State Rep. Christian Mitchell
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Christian Mitchell is the State Representative for Illinois’ 26th district. He is one of the chief co-sponsors of House Bill 3718, which would raise the minimum wage in Illinois to $10.65 by 2016. Christian graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy Studies and began…
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Does America deserve a raise? Everything you need to know about the minimum wage.
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The story of the minimum wage in six graphs. This is the first installment of our weeklong series on the minimum wage.
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Do Employers Care About Potential Employees’ Long-term Unemployment Spells?
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Long-term unemployment spells do not influence employers’ hiring decisions according to new research in the American Economic Review.
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IOU: Does Democracy Always Deliver for Taxpayers?
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A study of elected versus appointed treasurers finds that cities could save millions of dollars annually by entrusting their finances to bureaucrats.
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Focus on Finance: the Push and Pull of Los Angeles Labor Negotiations
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Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana shares how the City of Los Angeles has shrunk its structural deficit, lowered its pension liabilities, and increased its reserves.
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Illinois’ 100 Billion Dollar Question: How Do We Solve the Pension Crisis?
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Daniel Biss, once a University of Chicago mathematician and now a State Senator, gives an inside look at the pension reform proposal in the Illinois General Assembly.
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Was White Flight Good for African Americans?
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White flight to the suburbs was a leading cause of rising black homeownership in the mid-20th century, according to new research.