We have a lot to celebrate this Labor Day. Workers have made significant gains in raising the minimum wage, guaranteeing paid sick days and paid family leave and cracking down on wage theft.
Author: Anna Shireen Wadia
Anna Shireen Wadia is Senior Program Officer of Inclusive Economies at the Ford Foundation. She was previously a consultant for the Annie E. Casey and Ms. Foundations, the National Council for Research on Women and MDRC and co-authored Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty and Became Their Own Bosses. She holds a master's degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a bachelor's degree from Yale University.