Saru Jayaraman

Nov 1, 2024 | onefairwage.org | Saru Jayaraman

One Fair Wage is a national organization of nearly 300,000 restaurant and service workers, nearly 1,000 restaurant owners, and dozens of organizations nationwide all working together to end all subminimum wages in the United States and raise wages and working conditions in the service sector in particular.

Jul 11, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Rebekah Barber |Ramiro Murguia |Saru Jayaraman |James Anderson

On May 30, 2024, former president Donald Trump—the current Republican nominee for the President of the United States—became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes when a New York jury found him guilty of 34 charges related to payments he made to a porn actor in his attempt to keep her quiet leading up to the 2016 election.

Jul 11, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Abdullahi Lawal |Meredith Klenkel |Saru Jayaraman |Sandhya Nakhasi

The Amazon rainforest is often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth.” One of the world’s most vital ecosystems, it’s facing a crisis due to deforestation and climate change. These threats jeopardize the livelihoods of Indigenous communities and the biodiversity the forest sustains.

Jul 10, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Saru Jayaraman |Meredith Klenkel |Sandhya Nakhasi |Steve Dubb

The US restaurant industry is on the cusp of historic change. After years of organizing and building power to raise wages and end subminimum tip-based wages, restaurant and service workers and “high road” restaurant owners in many states still work in an industry that offers a minimum wage of $2.13 an hour—a direct legacy of slavery. But since the COVID-19 pandemic, over one million workers have left the industry, resulting in thousands of restaurants raising wages to recruit staff.

Jul 10, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Steve Dubb |Saru Jayaraman |Sandhya Nakhasi |Rebekah Barber

Who pays? Along with its companion question of “who benefits,” “who pays” has long been a central concern of both politics and economics. Earlier this year, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) published Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, its seventh study on the topic since 1996 and its first since 2018. State and local tax policy tends to get less attention than federal taxes. In part, this makes sense.