Search results for racial wealth gap (250)

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• The growing housing supply shortage has created a housing affordability crisis

  July 14, 2022 By Adewale A. Maye and Kyle K. Moore Blog

• 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

  July 12, 2022 By Sylvia Allegretto, Emma García, and Elaine Weiss Report

• Race and ethnicity in empirical analysis: How should we interpret the race variable?

  June 15, 2022 By Trevon D. Logan Report

• The myth of race-neutral policy

  June 15, 2022 By Adewale A. Maye Report

• Advancing anti-racist economic research and policy: Perspectives and resources on race, ethnicity, and the economy

  June 15, 2022 By Valerie Wilson, Adewale A. Maye, Trevon D. Logan, Kyle K. Moore, Angela Lang, Janelle Wong, Francisca Antman, and Patrice H. Kunesh Report

• News from EPI › New essay series and chartbook offer perspectives on advancing anti-racist economic research and policy

  June 15, 2022 Press Releases

• 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

  June 13, 2022 By Terri Gerstein and LiJia Gong Report

• Inequality’s drag on aggregate demand: The macroeconomic and fiscal effects of rising income shares of the rich

  May 24, 2022 By Josh Bivens and Asha Banerjee Report

• Abortion rights are economic rights: Overturning Roe v. Wade would be an economic catastrophe for millions of women

  May 18, 2022 By Asha Banerjee Blog

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  June 8, 2021 Press Releases

• Unions help reduce disparities and strengthen our democracy

  April 23, 2021 Fact Sheet

• The enormous impact of eroded collective bargaining on wages

  April 8, 2021 By Lawrence Mishel Report

• 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

• Our deeply broken labor market needs a higher minimum wage: EPI testimony for the Senate Budget Committee

  February 25, 2021 By Thea M. Lee Report