Data on workplace injuries, safety concerns, and provisions for safety
equipment and job training suggest that workers supplied by temporary staffing
agencies to building and construction contractors in the Atlanta metro area work in
substandard safety conditions. Agency-supplied temps cite inadequate job training
and insufficient provisions for safety equipment as reasons for their safety concerns.
Temporary agency workers in Atlanta’s building and construction industry
experience substandard safety conditions in part because non-standard employment
2003
Workplace Safety in Atlanta's Construction Industry: Institutional Failure in Temporary Staffing Arrangements
Education for All: Chicago's Undocumented Immigrants and Their Access to Higher Education
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) recently estimated that approximately 432,000 undocumented immigrants currently reside in Illinois. Many of these immigrants arrive in Illinois as young children and received their schooling in the State. Currently, many students without legal immigration status do not fulfill their educational goal of attending college.
Social Security Admistration's No-Match Letter Program: Implications for Immigration Enforcement and Worker's Rights
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) began its employer “no-match letter” program to help properly allocate the billions of dollars of contributions collected from workers with incorrectly filed Social Security numbers (SSNs). Under the program, SSA sends letters to employers every year that identify the Social Security numbers of employees who do not match names or numbers in SSA’s records.
Raising and Maintaining the Value of the State Minimum Wage: An Economic Impact Study of Illinois
The economic boom of the 1990s is rightly noted for lifting the wages of the vast
majority of Illinois workers. But for all its force, the boom failed to reverse the long-term
decline in the spending power of low-income households, particularly those reliant on
minimum and near-minimum wage earners. Although the nominal value of the federal
minimum wage is at an all-time high of $5.15 per hour, failure to adjust it for inflation
has led real hourly wages of minimum and near-minimum wage workers to erode to a
level near their all- time low.
Persistent Unemployment in Illinois: The Case For Reauthorizing Federal Temporary Extended Unemploment Compensation Benefits
November 2003 marked two years of recovery for the U.S. economy. Government reports have trumpeted the good news: growth in the gross domestic product reached its highest level in nearly two decades, businesses are investing again, and exports edged up slightly.