"For more than 40 years, we have not had significant immigration reform that creates opportunities, outside of temporary ones," said Sarah Keeney, the lead organizer of Omaha Together One Community.

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, the Nebraska Examiner reports.

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 ...

Economic justice considerations, including the rights to a living wage, housing, education, health care, clean environment, food, and safety, infuse the work of the US Program. Lack of economic ...

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.

The Nebraska Chamber Foundation outlines opportunities for strategic economic advancement with the release of the inaugural Nebraska Economic Competitiveness Assessment. Anchored in non-partisan ...

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 ...

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 ...