SMLR Experts In the News

New York Magazine’s The Cut writes about the strategy some companies are using to survive the coronavirus pandemic, quoting Jie (Jasmine) Feng.

YubaNet.com runs a story about the Center for Women and Work report, quoting Debra Lancaster and Yana Rodgers.

Economist Michael Merrill of SMLR's Labor Education Action Research Network: "Our national strategy right now is almost wholly reactive and defensive... We need to re-purpose our economy and our society to fight this war."

Home health aides are caring for seniors and people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, while earning an average of just $25,000 per year in New Jersey. On Equal Pay Day, SMLR's Center for Women and Work examines the economic challenges they face.

Rebecca Kolins Givan, via The Counter, on the Whole Foods sick-out: "If employees do this in a coordinated matter, it can create all kinds of problems [for their employers], because there are few or no workers to perform the work."

TechCrunch publishes an op-ed by two county clerks on the need for expanded online voting due to the coronavirus pandemic, citing reports by the Program for Disability Research.

Salud America! reports a disproportionate number of Latino workers have low-wage jobs that cannot be done from home, quoting Christopher Hayes on how this puts them at greater risk of catching the coronavirus.

The New Deal gave us FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps. Writing for northjersey.com and The Record, Michael Merrill argues the COVID-19 pandemic requires a new CCC: a Coronavirus Containment Corps.

Instacart workers are striking for hazard pay and better protection from the coronavirus pandemic. Rebecca Kolins Givan tells NBC News, "The American public sees them deserving of respect and decent wages."

“When the COVID-19 pandemic has ended in this country, we will see an unequal distribution of infections and deaths along the intersecting lines of race and class.” Christopher Hayes explains in his op-ed for NJ.com and the Sunday edition of the Star-Ledger.