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Matt Sedlar / July 17, 2024

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IMF Begins Review of Unjust Surcharge Policy

IMF reviewing surcharge policy: why surcharges are counterproductive, unfair, and unnecessary. Learn more about the push to end surcharges.

Manasi Karthik / July 18, 2024

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Report Examines Complex Web of Agencies, Organizations, and People Working to Protect and Restore Louisiana’s Coast

Washington, DC — “They’re trying to wash us away,” declared the song, Louisiana 1927. Since The Great Mississippi Flood in 1927, a complex ecosystem of resources and helpers evolved to protect and restore the coast of the Mississippi River delta that dominates Louisiana’s coast. Over the decades, some attempts to halt flooding did more harm than good. The demands of the area’s oil industry and shipping lanes have often overshadowed flooding or environmental concerns. Climate analyst Matt Sedlar describes the current groups of interconnected helpers and funders in a new report released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).

These groups are grappling with repairing the harm done by previous attempts to hold back floods while addressing the latest challenges from climate change that could threaten the region more than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, with outcomes as disastrous as Katrina. The report concludes with recommendations for enhancing data collection, standardizing industry definitions, establishing workforce intermediary programs, advocating for good jobs, developing hybrid training programs, educating potential workers, and addressing long-term funding needs.

“While more data are necessary to assess employers and their needs better, the purpose of this report is to assist in preparing stakeholders for challenges to come,” said Sedlar.

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Who is Saving Coastal Louisiana? The Workforce and Industry Behind Coastal Protection and Restoration

Explore the collaborative efforts to save coastal Louisiana. Learn about the main players and the challenges in water management.

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The $7.25 Federal Minimum Wage is Too Damn Low & Has Been So for Too Damn Long

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Sylvia Allegretto / July 10, 2024

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Federal Minimum Wage Stagnates at $7.25 on its 15th Anniversary

Washington, DC — There is one thing that has remained inflation-free for 15 years. Since July 24, 2009, the federal minimum wage has not budged from $7.25. That is the most stagnant federal minimum wage since its inception in 1938.

As Sylvia Allegretto’s analysis shows, today’s minimum wage is worth 29 percent less than when it was last increased. Today’s minimum wage workers make nearly 40 percent less than their 1968 counterparts did when the minimum was at its most generous.

“It is shameful that the US, the wealthiest country in the world, ranks #19 on minimum wages across the world,” writes Allegretto. “Nowhere in the US can a full-time worker meet their basic needs on the federal minimum wage.”

A wage floor that is too low contributes to income, gender, and racial inequality. A minimum wage increase will lift the lowest-wage workers, especially women and workers of color.

Allegretto suggests it is way past time to increase the federal minimum wage which is at a 68-year low. An increase would lock in the wage gains that low-wage workers experienced from 2019–2023, and set the path to significantly higher wages for the lowest-wage earners.

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Give Peace a Chance in Haiti

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No False Solutions: IMF Surcharges Must Go

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Alexander Main and Michael Galant / BRETTON WOODS OBSERVER / July 03, 2024

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Alexander Main and Michael GalantAlexander Main y Michael Galant / July 03, 2024 03 Julio 2024

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El creciente peso de los sobrecargos del FMI: una estimación actualizada

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