State and Local Strategies for Reversing Inequality
Channel: Institute for Policy Studies
Date: 2017-05-11

As progressives battle in Washington to protect hard-fought gains for working people, they are also going on offense to win new state and local policies to reverse inequality. This webinar conversation is about two reforms that are taking off around the country: CEO-worker pay gap penalties and one fair wage.

Speakers:

Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies will discuss the growing movement to use state and local taxes on corporations to narrow the gaps between CEO and worker pay and generate revenue for social programs. She directs IPS’s Global Economy Project and is a co-editor of the IPS web site Inequality.org.

Teófilo Reyes of Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United will discuss the sub-minimum wage for restaurant servers and other tipped workers. Eight states have eliminated this two-tiered wage system, and ROC is campaigning in several states and cities to expand “One Fair Wage.”