tribute I added the song "I'll Be There" to my playlist.That was the first song I fell in love with.When he ventured out on his own, I still loved his music and remember the veryearly days of MTV and his amazing videos. Of course by then I was in my 20's and my friends and I would gather together around the TV and dance t…

We went from very cool, rainy weather to the dog day's of summer in a heartbeat here in the windy city! It feels more like the tropics. But as a friend of mine reminded me...enjoy it now because before long the temps will be back in the subzero range!

My summer is flying by at lightening speed with my daughter home from school. We aremarket. Unionization has a large and measurable impact on the bargaining power, and therefore the wages, of low-wage workers,” said John Schmitt, a Senior Economist at CEPR and the author of the study.

The study found the disproportionate impact of unions on low-wage workers also holds across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. In each state, the union premium was substantially larger for low-wage workers than it was for middle or high-wage workers.

The report analyzed five years of data on sixteen to sixty-four year old workers from the United States Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey for the years 2003 through 2007, the most recent years available.

Over the period covered in the report, 13.8 percent of American workers were either members of a union or covered by a