Ken Smith, Economic Justice Program Director at Nebraska Appleseed, has supported the paid sick leave ballot initiative from ...

Minimum wage in Nebraska was just $9 an hour in 2022 will hit $15 an hour by 2026. LB258 caps annual increases for minimum wage at 1.75%. Economic Justice Program director with Nebraska Appleseed ...

Ken Smith, Nebraska Appleseed’s Economic Justice Program Director, said in 1995, the Nebraska Legislature restricted access to the right to jury trials for eviction proceedings, and that went ...

John Ewing Jr., new mayor of Nebraska's largest city, talks about his transition and top goal of "intentional economic ...

Nebraska has now fully launched a new regional approach to economic development that organizers hope will accelerate growth and sharpen the state’s competitive edge. On Wednesday in Omaha ...

KEARNEY — Keeping ’em down on the farm is easy these days, Jason Henderson said at the Federal Reserve’s Nebraska Economic Forum Monday evening. Farms thrive when the national economy sours.

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Today) - Nebraska’s Leading Economic Indicator, designed to predict economic activity six months into the future, rose 0.42% in April. “The monthly report suggests the ...

The Economic Justice and Rights Division works to build just economies based on respect for human rights. We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human ...

Although a less-quoted aspect of his legacy, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. centered economic justice as a core tenet in his fight for liberation. In fact, he died while advocating for the ...

He has a passion for analyzing economic and financial data and sharing it with others. Economic justice is a component of social justice and welfare economics. It is a set of moral and ethical ...