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Planning Past Pensions, Julie Roin
Planning Past Pensions, Julie Roin
Loyola University Chicago Law Journal
Evidence of state and local government dysfunction surfaces in many areas. One is the operation of employee pension plans. Free from the strictures of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), some state governments failed to adequately fund their pension promises. With the imminent retirement of the baby boom generation, these states are facing what appear to be insurmountable pension debts. Illinois is one of the worst hit states, with grossly underfunded pension plans, a state constitutional prohibition on reducing pension benefits, and a sizable non-pension-related budget deficit. Illinois courts will likely strike down recently passed pension “reforms.” There are …
Gearing Up For The Next Industrial Revolution: 3d Printing, Home-Based Factories, And Modes Of Social Control, Elizabeth J. Kennedy, Andrea Giampetro-Meyer
Gearing Up For The Next Industrial Revolution: 3d Printing, Home-Based Factories, And Modes Of Social Control, Elizabeth J. Kennedy, Andrea Giampetro-Meyer
Loyola University Chicago Law Journal
While former industrial factories are being converted into modern living spaces in cities across the country, residential homes are being converted into modern factories thanks to advances in three-dimensional (“3D”) printing technology, an emerging “Maker Movement,” and the rise of online marketplaces like Etsy. Despite growing environmental, child-labor, and safety concerns, these “home-based factories” are largely unregulated. In the absence of traditional workplace protections, how can we gear up for the “next industrial revolution” while guarding against the sweatshop conditions of the last? How can we harness the Maker Movement’s commitment to do-it-yourself democracy in order to combat abuses by …