Labor Center
Labor Center Staff
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Chair
Ken Jacobs is the Chair of the Labor Center, where he as been a Labor Specialist since 2002. His areas of specialization include: health care coverage, low-wage work, the retail industry and public policy. Recent papers have examined declining job-based health coverage in California and the U.S., the public cost of low-wage jobs, and transformations in the retail industry. He provided consultation to the City and County of San Francisco on the development of the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance and was a member of the Mayor's Universal Health Care Council. Before joining the Labor Center, Ken was with the Bay Area Organizing Committee (BAOC), an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, where he worked on improving wages and expanding health care coverage for low-wage workers.
Areas of Expertise
• Health Care and Labor Relations
• Low-Wage Work
• Public Policy and Unions
• Retail Industry
• Living Wage and Labor Standards Policies
Recent Publications
Secure and Affordable Health Care Act of 2008: Impact on Payroll Costs in California,  with Dave Graham-Squire, January 2008.
Living Wage Policies and Wal-Mart: How a Higher Wage Standard Would Impact Wal-Mart Workers and Shoppers, with Arindrajit Dube, Dave Graham-Squire and Stephanie Luce, December 2007.
Weighing the Cost of Health Care Reform, Opinion Editorial, Sacramento Bee, October 7, 2007.
Modeling Employer Participation in Adult Healthcare Coverage Expansion in San Mateo County, with Lucas Ronconi, for the San Mateo County Blue Ribbon Task Force on Adult Health Coverage Expansion, October 2007.
Powerpoint presentation
Health Coverage Expansion in California: What Can Consumers Afford to Spend? with Korey Capozza, Dylan H. Roby, Gerald F. Kominski and E. Richard Brown, September 2007.
Impact of Health Benefit Reductions in the Unionized Grocery Sector in California, with Arindrajit Dube, California Program on Access to Care, August 2007.
Powerpoint presentation,
A Small Raise: Jobs, Wages and Healthcare in 2007, with Arindrajit Dube and Dave Graham-Squire, August 2007.
Health Coverage Proposals in California: Impact on Businesses, with Lucas Ronconi and Dave Graham-Squire, July 2007.
Grocery Dispute is about Health Care, Opinion Editorial, San Diego Union Tribune, June 26, 2007.
Mounting Business Mandates? Opinion Editorial, Riverside Press Enterprise, June 2007.
California Healthcare: Firm Spending and Worker Coverage, with Dave Graham-Squire and Arindrajit Dube, March 2007.
Declining Health Coverage in the Southern California Grocery Industry, with Arindrajit Dube and Felix Su, January 2007.
“The Hidden Cost of Jobs without Health Care Benefits,” Perspectives on Work, Vol. 10, No.2, University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Establishing a San Francisco Taxi Driver Health Care Coverage Plan, with Rhonda Evans, Jabril Bensedrine and Carol Zabin, March 2006.
Declining Job-Based Health Coverage for Working Families in California and the United States, with Arindrajit Dube, Sarah Muller, Bob Brownstein and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, January 2006.
Review of Fighting for a Living Wage by Stephanie Luce, Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Université Laval, Volume 60, No. 4, Fall 2005.
Internal Wal-Mart Memo Validates Findings of UC Berkeley Study, with Arindrajit Dube and Steve Wertheim, October 2005.
Kids at Risk: Declining Employer-Based Health Coverage in California and the United States: A Crisis for Working Families, with Arindrajit Dube, Sarah Muller, Bob Brownstein and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, August 2005.
Falling Apart: How Adults are Faring in the Crisis of Job-Based Health Insurance in California and the United States, with Arindrajit Dube, Sarah Muller, Bob Brownstein and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, June 2005.
Review of For All These Rights by Jennifer Klein, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 2005.
Living Wage Policies at the San Francisco Airport: Impacts on Workers and Businesses, with Michael Reich and Peter Hall, Industrial Relations, vol. 44, no. 1, January 2005.
Hidden Cost of Wal-Mart Jobs, with Arindrajit Dube, August 2, 2004.
The Hidden Public Costs of Low-Wage Jobs in California, with Carol Zabin and Arindrajit Dube, State of California Labor 2004, University of California Institute for Labor and Employment, May 2004.
Living
Wages and Economic Performance, with Michael Reich and Peter Hall, 2002.
Living
Wages and Airport Security, with Michael Reich and Peter Hall, 2001.
Curriculum Vitae
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