The Fight for 15 – Minimum Wage, Living Wage, and Labor

Show #98, Hour 1 | Guests: Jason E. Taylor is the Jerry and Felicia Campbell Chair Professor of Economics at Central Michigan University. He received his Ph.D. From the University of Georgia in 1998 and was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia between 1998 and 2003. He has been a professor at CMU since 2003 and joined the Mackinac Center’s Board of Scholars in 2014. Cory Wolbach serves on Palo Alto’s City Council where he’s a member of the Policy and Services Committee and also serves as a Library Advisory Commission Liaison and Palo Alto Housing Corp. Liaison. He’s lived in Palo Alto for over 20 years, including graduating from Palo Alto’s Gunn High School. Wolbach has a B. A. From University of California, San Diego in Political Science/International Relations. Bradley Cleveland is an urban planning specialist with particular focus on how workers in the informal economy can improve their jobs and livelihoods in ways that also enhance the resilience of their environments. A journalist by training, Cleveland was Communications Manager with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for 10 years before taking a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). | Show Summary: An insightful panel discussion exploring economic and labor policies that impact inequality, minimum wage, and the living wage.