A job should be a source of stability and opportunity. Our job, in many ways, defines us; it is something
we want to be proud of. It is how we earn a living, contribute to our community, and take care of our
loved ones.
We know, however, that it is not often the case. Many workers in the state do not earn enough to make
a living, even with full-time jobs. Many employers, as we have argued in past articles, do no even
respect their workforce enough to give them stable schedules, let alone a stable paycheck. And workers
see jobs often come ahead of their own health; nine in ten workers in our state are not guaranteed to
have paid sick days.
No matter your political affiliation, I think we can all agree that this is a problem. Everyone should be
able to have a stable, full-time jobs that pays well, and offers good benefits. The inevitable
disagreement only emerges when we talk about how we solve this problem.
Some conservatives have argued in these pages that the best thing we can do is stand out of the way
and let the free market sort it out. Workers, however, have been waiting for a good forty years for this
to happen, and things have only gotten worse. We have only seen wage increases for those at the
bottom in periods of exceptionally low unemployment, and those gains have quickly faded away the
moment the economy hit a recession. The reason for that is that the labor market is not quite like any
other market out there, so the no-regulation approach is not just wrong,...
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