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20 Kansas City Wage Theft Ordinance 040964

Type Ordinance

Year 2004

Level City or Town

State(s) Missouri

Source Council of Kansas City

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance redefines "stealing" to include wage theft. A person may be criminally prosecuted if they refuse or fail to pay for the labor or services provided by an individual pursuant to an agreement....

2015 El Paso Ordinance 018370 Responding to Wage Theft Complaints

Type Ordinance

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) Texas

Source City of El Paso

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance outlines the procedure for wage theft complaints in El Paso, TX. In particular, this ordinance creates a wage theft database, maintained by a Wage Theft Coordinator designated by the City Manager, to identify employers with a wage theft adjudication record, establish...

St. Petersburg Ordinance 161-H Responding to Wage Theft Complaints

Type Ordinance

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) Florida

Source City of St. Petersburg

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance details the procedure for wage theft complaints in St. Petersburg, FL, including the process of filing wage theft complaints, employer responses, conciliation, and hearings before a hearing officer. Moreover, this ordinance also outlines enforcement practices and retaliation...

What Does Good Child Care Reform Look Like?

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Education

Achieving high-quality early care and education for all children will require meaningful public policy interventions and investments. Effective childcare reform must tackle the current system's main problems: lack of resources for parents to stay home with very young children, lack...

Impact Investing and Employee Ownership

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source The Democracy Collaborative

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Democracy & Governance

This report explores the existing landscape of employee ownership opportunities for impact investors and highlights emerging models and strategies for inclusive investment in Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and worker cooperatives. The benefits of employee ownership as a strategy...

The U.S. Needs a Federal Wealth Tax

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level National

State(s) All States

Source Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

A federal wealth tax on the richest 0.1 percent of Americans is a viable approach for Congress to raise revenue and address rising inequality. This report outlines reasons why the United States needs a federal wealth tax to achieve these goals, as opposed to federal tax policies that...

“The Forgotten Ones”—The Economic Well-Being of Early Educators During COVID-19

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level State

State(s) California

Source Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Education

This report provides a closer look at the well-being of California's early educators during the COVID-19 public health crisis, using data collected from the 2020 California Early Care and Education Workforce Study. Key findings show that educators' low wages leave them vulnerable...

Child Tax Credit Enhancements Under the American Rescue Plan

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2021

Level National

State(s) All States

Source Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Children & Families

President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief package, the American Rescue Plan, includes a significant expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC). The proposal provides a $125 billion boost in funding for the program, which would double the size of the existing federal credit for households...

Racial Wage Gaps in Early Education Employment

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Education

Early educators are some of the lowest-paid workers in every state, which especially burdens African American and Hispanic women in this profession. This report analyzes the racial disparities that exist in early education employment. Findings show that African American early educators...

2013 Dane County Ordinance 6, Creating the Poverty Commission

Type Ordinance

Year 2013

Level City or Town, County

State(s) Wisconsin

Source Dane County

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

This ordinance establishes a poverty commission within the county government and outlines staffing and term limits. The county board chair will appoint the supervisor members and citizen members which include representatives from anti-poverty organizations and a member whose income...

2011 Seattle Wage Theft Ordinance No. 123596

Type Ordinance

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source City of Seattle

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance outlines the procedure for wage theft complaints in Seattle, WA. It defines wage theft and provides a list of circumstances that may considered when determining if a person intended to commit wage theft. It also allows the City to refuse to issue or revoke any business...

Closing The Inequality Divide: A Strategy for Fostering Genuine Progress in Maryland

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level State

State(s) Maryland

Source Center for Sustainable Economy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Democracy & Governance

In 2009, with the economic crisis still ravaging the nation, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley put in place a bold new economic indicator, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), to begin to assess more precisely what has gone right — and wrong — in his state’s economy. The GPI provides...

Illinois’s Flat Tax Exacerbates Income Inequality and Racial Wealth Gaps

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level State

State(s) Illinois

Source Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

Flat or graduated personal income taxes drive income inequality and racial wealth gaps. This brief compares Illinois’s flat income tax structure to the proposed Fair Tax amendment through a retrospective analysis. It shows that Illinois’s historic flat income tax in lieu of a graduated...

Build a Better South: Construction Working Conditions in the Southern U.S.

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas

Source Partnership for Working Families

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Public Safety, Health

As construction activity in the southern United States continues to flourish, concern over workers’ health and safety grows. Economic hardships, few or no opportunities for career advancement, unstable work, injuries, and even death on the job are commonplace for construction workers...

Moving Toward More Equitable State Tax Systems: A “Who Pays?” Follow-Up Report on Tax Policy Options for Advancing Equity and Addressing Income Inequality

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice

Public policies are contributing to the widening income and wealth gap. This report provides recommendations that policymakers can take to improve their constituents’ lives and their states’ economies through tax policy. It explains the importance of favoring taxes on income and wealth...

Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice

No two state tax systems are the same. This report provides detailed analyses of the features of every state tax code and assesses their fairness by measuring effective state and local tax rates paid by all income groups. The report concludes the following findings: the majority of...

Austerity Versus Reinvestment: A Roadmap for a Broad-Based Connecticut Economic Recovery

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level State

State(s) Connecticut

Source In the Public Interest

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Community Development, Finance & Procurement

In the face of a public health emergency, an economic recession, and widening of social inequities, Connecticut has continues to reduce its public investment in services such as education, healthcare, housing, and transportation. Downsizing the public sector and failing to adequately...

2015 Philadelphia Ordinance 150741 Creating a Wage Theft Coordinator

Type Ordinance

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) Pennsylvania

Source City of Philadelphia

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance creates a wage theft coordinator for the City and provides definitions, duties, penalties, feed, procedural requirements, a private right of action and other related items regarding wage theft....

2020 Richmond Ordinance 20-096 Establishing a Tax Amnesty Period

Type Ordinance

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) Virginia

Source City of Richmond

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This ordinance establishes a tax amnesty period for delinquent taxpayers, temporarily waiving late payment fees. This ordinance was implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, it may be utilized regardless of national emergencies, as Richmond, VA, has frequently done...

Strategies in Pursuit of Pre-K Teacher Compensation Parity: Lessons from Seven States and Cities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, State

State(s) Alabama, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, West Virginia

Source National Institute for Early Education Research

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Education

Teachers in publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs across the nation are increasingly expected to earn educational qualifications and credentials similar to their peers teaching older children. Yet salaries and benefits remain consistently lower for pre-K teachers than for kindergarten...

Racial & Ethnic Economic Inequality and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level County

State(s) All States

Source The Democracy Collaborative

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health

Data from states and municipalities across the country suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting people of color in the United States. This report analyzes emerging data on deaths, unemployment, failing businesses, and wealth inequality to assess the links...

Recovery for All or Recovery for the Few?: Billionaire Wealth Soars in Connecticut

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level State

State(s) Connecticut

Source The Center for Popular Democracy

Policy Areas Economic Justice

While Connecticut’s working families are struggling with low wages, threats of eviction, food instability, lack of affordable health care, and high levels of unemployment amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Connecticut’s wealthiest residents have amassed unprecedented wealth. In response...

The Case for Progressive Revenue Policies

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2019

Level City or Town, State, National

State(s) All States

Source Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

The United States needs to address growing inequality and raise more revenue to fund critical public investment. One way to accomplish both goals is to enact legislation that raises taxes for high-income or high-wealth households. This infographic includes figures that demonstrate...

Miami FL Wage Theft Ordinance No. 10-16

Type Ordinance

Year 2010

Level City or Town

State(s) Florida

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement, Children & Families

This ordinance details the procedure for wage theft complaints in Miami-Dade County, including the process of filing wage theft complaints, employer responses, subpoenas, conciliation, and hearings before a hearing officer. Moreover, this ordinance also outlines enforcement practices...

Tax Justice Is...

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, State, National

State(s) All States

Source Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice

Racial justice, economic justice, climate justice, and health justice all require tax justice. The United States does not raise enough tax revenue to fund the basic needs of its people or environment, leading to income inequality, racial wealth gaps, and negative health and climate...

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