A volume in the Pittsburgh Survey, edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg. The Pittsburgh Survey had been planned by the editors of "Charities and The Commons" before the organization of the Russell Sage Foundation. The Charities Publication Committee accepted and assumed responsibility for the project.
ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY BUTLER was secretary of the Consumers League of New Jersey.
A report sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Consumers' League of Maryland in 1909, this book studies female workers in mercantile stores in Baltimore. While this report deals only with one set of industrial conditions in a single city, it is suggestive of other cities in the country.
ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY BUTLER was secretary of the Consumers League of New Jersey.
A directory of the organizations employing trained visiting nurses, with chapters on the principles, organization and methods of administration of such work.
YSSABELLA WATERS, Henry Street Nurses’ Settlement, New York City
A report on the findings of a study of the loan businesses in New York City from 1907-1908, part of a larger set of studies of fiscal agencies exploiting the necessities of the poor. The study was commissioned by the Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy, published by the Russell Sage Foundation.
CLARENCE W. WASSAM, Bureau of Social Research, New York School of Philanthropy
Published jointly by the Committee for Vocational Scholarship of the Henry Street Settlement and the Committee on Women's Work of the Russell Sage Foundation.
HENRIETTE R. WALTER, Investigator Division of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation
The unemployment insurance (UI) system took a hard hit during the Great Recession and has not yet recovered. UI remains a complex set of state-run programs that suffer from limited and inconsistent coverage, inconsistent wage replacement rates, uncertain duration of benefits, regressive taxation, and insolvency.
The overrepresentation of minorities within the criminal justice system and the negative effects of criminal justice involvement on employment outcomes have been well documented. In addition, many social psychology experiments and audit studies have found that race affects the perception of criminality. For instance, black and Hispanic male job applicants without a criminal record are no more likely (and may be less likely) to receive a callback from an employer than white applicants with a criminal record.
Persistent differences in intergenerational mobility have been documented both across countries and across U.S. commuting zones. Variation in mobility is correlated with variables such as inequality and education policies, yet little is known about the reasons for different patterns of inequality, mobility and redistribution across locations.
Today, twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have a higher minimum wage than the $7.25 federal minimum wage, which has not been raised since 2009. A proposal by the Obama administration that would increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, indexed to inflation, has stalled in Congress.
An elementary treatise on cooperative banking, containing questions and answers concerning methods of organization and operation, necessary books and forms, suggested by-laws and the Credit Union Law of New York.
ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation
LEONARD G. ROBINSON was manager of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society.
