Search results for racial wealth gap (234)

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• Worker mobility in practice: Is quitting a right, or a luxury?

  May 12, 2022 By Kathryn Anne Edwards

• Much has changed since the first May Day, but building worker power and combating racism and xenophobia remain just as important

  April 29, 2022 By Asha Banerjee, Jennifer Sherer, and Dave Kamper Blog

• State of Working America 2021: Measuring wages in the pandemic labor market

  April 27, 2022 By Elise Gould and Jori Kandra Report

• Understanding black-white disparities in labor market outcomes requires models that account for persistent discrimination and unequal bargaining power

  March 25, 2022 By Valerie Wilson and William Darity Jr.

• Unions can reduce the public-sector pay gap: Collective bargaining rights and local government workers

  March 14, 2022 By Monique Morrissey and Jennifer Sherer Report

• How public-sector workers are building power in Virginia

  February 18, 2022 By Mel Borja Blog

• The great reversal: The story of how an influential international organization changed its view on employment security, labor market flexibility, and collective bargaining

  February 11, 2022 By John Evans and William E. Spriggs

• The costs of racial and ethnic labor market discrimination and solutions that can contribute to closing employment and wage gaps: Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth

  January 20, 2022 By Valerie Wilson Testimony

• States are sitting on American Rescue Plan funds that could help against the Omicron variant

  December 23, 2021 By Dave Kamper Blog

• Unions are not only good for workers, they’re good for communities and for democracy: High unionization levels are associated with positive outcomes across multiple indicators of economic, personal, and democratic well-being

  December 15, 2021 By Asha Banerjee, Margaret Poydock, Celine McNicholas, Ihna Mangundayao, and Ali Sait Report

• Alt-labor’s turn toward politics and public policy to combat the exploitation of low-wage workers: Building power and ‘punching above their weight’

  November 4, 2021 By Daniel J. Galvin

• Moral policy = Good economics: Lifting up poor and working-class people—and our whole economy

  October 27, 2021 By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Shailly Gupta Barnes, Josh Bivens, Krista Faries, Thea M. Lee, and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis Report

• Preempting progress in the heartland: State lawmakers in the Midwest prevent shared prosperity and racial, gender, and immigrant justice by interfering in local policymaking

  October 14, 2021 By Julia Wolfe, Sebastian Martinez Hickey, Dave Kamper, and David Cooper Report

• Understanding the claims about labor markets in debates on ‘Private Government‘

  September 23, 2021 By Chetan Cetty

• News from EPI › Economist Heidi Shierholz named president of the Economic Policy Institute

  September 7, 2021 Press Releases

• EPI comments on DOL’s draft Strategic Plan and Evidence-Building Plan

  August 6, 2021 By Ihna Mangundayao and Daniel Costa Public Comments

• EPI comments on OMB’s methods and leading practices for advancing equity and support for underserved communities

  July 6, 2021 By Valerie Wilson and Kyle K. Moore Public Comments

• Statement of the problem: Why unemployment insurance reform is needed

  June 24, 2021

• Section 4. Benefit duration: Expand UI benefit duration to provide longer protection during normal times and use better measures of labor market distress to automatically extend and sustain benefits during downturns

  June 24, 2021

• Section 3. Eligibility: Update UI eligibility to match the modern workforce and guarantee benefits to everyone looking for work but still jobless through no fault of their own

  June 24, 2021

• Unions can reduce the public-sector pay gap: Collective bargaining rights and local government workers

  June 17, 2021 By Monique Morrissey Report

• News from EPI › Black and Latinx workers are underrepresented in professional occupations

  June 8, 2021 Press Releases

• Racial representation in professional occupations: By the numbers

  June 8, 2021 By Valerie Wilson, Ethan Miller, and Melat Kassa Fact Sheet

• Identifying the policy levers generating wage suppression and wage inequality

  May 13, 2021 By Lawrence Mishel and Josh Bivens Report

• Unions help reduce disparities and strengthen our democracy

  April 23, 2021 Fact Sheet

• We need a vaccine for false narratives about racial disparities: Taking statistics with a dose of history and context will bolster economic and racial justice for Black workers

  April 13, 2021 By Kyle K. Moore Blog

• The enormous impact of eroded collective bargaining on wages

  April 8, 2021 By Lawrence Mishel Report

• News from EPI › Press call on Wednesday: Economists discuss the need for a multi-trillion dollar public investment to rebuild economy

  April 6, 2021 Press Releases

• Gender inequality and bargaining in the U.S. labor market: Why care work is undervalued

  March 10, 2021 By Nancy Folbre: Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst Report

• So-called right-to-work is wrong for Montana: Research shows RTW law would not boost jobs and could lower wages for both union and nonunion workers

  February 25, 2021 By David Cooper and Julia Wolfe Report