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Rooted in racism and economic exploitation: The failed Southern economic development model
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UAW-automakers negotiations pit falling wages against skyrocketing CEO pay: U.S. auto companies have the means to invest in EVs, pay workers a fair share, and still earn healthy profits
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EPI comment regarding DOL’s proposed information collection to update the National Database of Childcare Prices
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What to know about this summer’s strike activity: What’s spurring the rise in labor actions?
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Chasing the dream of equity: How policy has shaped racial economic disparities
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Why the U.S. needs at least a $17 minimum wage: How the Raise the Wage Act would benefit U.S. workers, their families, and entire communities
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Nineteen states and localities will increase their minimum wages this summer
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Testimony prepared for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary for a hearing on ‘From Farm to Table, Immigrant Workers Get the Job Done’
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Speaker McCarthy’s debt limit proposal = enormous human toll: Proposal would impose burdensome work reporting requirements to restrict access to Medicaid and food stamps
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Increasing the Maryland minimum wage to $15 in 2023 would boost incomes for low-wage workers and advance gender and racial justice: Testimony in support of the Fair Wage Act of 2023 (SB 555) before the Maryland Senate Finance and Budget and Taxation Committees
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Increasing the Maryland minimum wage to $15 in 2023 would boost incomes for low-wage workers and advance gender and racial justice: Testimony in support of the Fair Wage Act of 2023 (HB 549) before the Maryland House of Delegates Economic Matters Committee
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Major strike activity increased nearly 50% in 2022: Upcoming Supreme Court case threatens workers’ ability to strike
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EPI comments on DHS and DOL Temporary Rule to increase the fiscal year 2023 numerical limitation for the H-2B visa program and portability for H-2B workers
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The labor market recovery and pandemic relief measures lifted Black and Brown workers and families in 2021
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Tying minimum-wage increases to inflation, as 13 states do, will lift up low-wage workers and their families across the country
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State policy solutions for good home health care jobs—nearly half held by Black women in the South—should address the legacy of racism, sexism, and xenophobia in the workforce
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Second-class workers: Assessing H-2 visa programs’ impact on workers
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Public education funding in the U.S. needs an overhaul: How a larger federal role would boost equity and shield children from disinvestment during downturns
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The role of local government in protecting workers’ rights: A comprehensive overview of the ways that cities, counties, and other localities are taking action on behalf of working people
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All states must set higher wage benchmarks for home health care workers
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EPI comments on DOL’s proposed changes to the Adverse Effect Wage Rate methodology for H-2A visas for temporary migrant farmworkers
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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
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Setting higher wages for child care and home health care workers is long overdue
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Pandemic-related economic insecurity among Black and Hispanic households would have been worse without a swift policy response
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Policymakers cannot relegate another generation to underresourced K–12 education because of an economic recession
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Our deeply broken labor market needs a higher minimum wage: EPI testimony for the Senate Budget Committee
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Temporary work visa programs and the need for reform: A briefing on program frameworks, policy issues and fixes, and the impact of COVID-19
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Racism and the Economy: Focus on Employment