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What’s at stake for state and local governments in the year-end government funding negotiations
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Illinois Workers’ Rights Amendment sets new bar for state worker power policy: Other state legislatures should seize the moment to advance worker, racial, and gender justice in 2023
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Poverty is a policy choice: State-level data show pandemic safety net programs prevented a rise in poverty in every state
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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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The state of the residential long-term care industry: A comprehensive look at employment levels, demographics, wages, benefits, and poverty rates of workers in the industry
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Racial and ethnic disparities in the United States: An interactive chartbook
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Multidimensional identities of the Hispanic population in the United States
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Asian Americans and the anti-racist equity agenda: Contradictions and common ground
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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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Proposed New York state minimum wage increases would lift wages for more than 2 million workers through 2026: Minimum wages would range by region from $16.35 to $21.25 per hour by 2026
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All states must set higher wage benchmarks for home health care workers
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National survey of gig workers paints a picture of poor working conditions, low pay
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Reclaiming corporate tax revenues: Corporate income tax revenues are critical to the ability of state and local governments to provide basic services to their residents
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One year in, the American Rescue Plan has fueled a fast recovery: Policymakers should use remaining ARPA funds in 2022 to make transformative investments that will build a more equitable economy
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Testimony to the Washington State Senate Transportation Committee on ESHB 2076: Concerning rights and obligations of transportation network company drivers and transportation network companies
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Testimony before the NY State Department of Labor’s Farm Laborers Wage Board: The overtime threshold for farmworkers in New York state should be lowered to 40 hours per week
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New U.S. Treasury final rule supports state and local spending for an equitable economic recovery
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States are choosing employers over workers by using COVID relief funds to pay off unemployment insurance debt: Policymakers shouldn’t be afraid to increase taxes on employers to improve unemployment insurance
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State unemployment by race and ethnicity
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Moral policy = Good economics: Lifting up poor and working-class people—and our whole economy
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Preempting progress in the heartland: State lawmakers in the Midwest prevent shared prosperity and racial, gender, and immigrant justice by interfering in local policymaking
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Few Midwestern states are providing premium pay to essential workers, despite American Rescue Plan funding
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Where are the employers?: American labor relations in comparative perspective
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News from EPI › Seventeen winners of the Nobel Prize in economics sign letter in support of the President’s Build Back Better package: Statement from Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz
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News from EPI › Nearly 100 organizations urge Congress to stand up to pressure from corporate lobbyists and pass President Biden’s Build Back Better plan: Letter denounces corporate lobbyists’ assault on vital programs and services supporting children and working families and combating climate change
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State unemployment by race and ethnicity
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Statement for the record for U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “Immigrant Farmworkers are Essential to Feeding America”
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Worker-led state and local policy victories in 2021 showcase potential for an equitable recovery
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EPI comments on Treasury’s administration of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds as part of the American Rescue Plan