Thursday, November 21, 2019, 12:00 p.m., The City Club of Cleveland
Steven Greenhouse
Despite low unemployment rates and a steady growth of new private-sector jobs, it can be argued that workers and organized labor are in their worst state since the early 1930s. Today's average wage has the same purchasing power as it did 40 years ago and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2018, only 10.5 percent of wage and salary workers belonged to unions. Steven Greenhouse, an award-winning journalist who...
Friday, Nov 22 @ 4:30 p.m.
Blue-Collar and White-Collar America: Some Big Challenges and Bright Spots
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Monday, November 18, 2019
#FREESPEECH IN THE NEWS: November 18, 2019
As the Citadel of Free Speech here in Cleveland, we work to protect and promote the basis of our democracy by sharing related stories, commentary, and opinions on free speech in the 21st century. Here's what's making the news – and what you should know about – in the past week. 1.) He dropped f-bombs in a nasty letter to a judge and got jailed for it. What about his free speech rights? The letter ripped the judge as “incompetent” and “unfit to serve,” with expletives added for emphasis. It got Derrick Jenkins thrown in Palm Beach County Jail for 30 days as part of a six-month probation sentence. He’s now appealing his... read on
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The two-year state budget proposal is working its way through the Ohio legislature. Governor Kasich’s budget was announced in early February, the Ohio House passed...
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