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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 growing housing supply shortage has created a housing affordability crisis
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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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Understanding economic disparities within the AAPI community
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All states must set higher wage benchmarks for home health care workers
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Following Dr. Lisa Cook’s historic confirmation to the Federal Reserve Board, we must acknowledge the importance of Black economists for public policy and the economy
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State of Working America 2021: Measuring wages in the pandemic labor market
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Building back better means raising wages for public-sector workers
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Unions can reduce the public-sector pay gap: Collective bargaining rights and local government workers
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Botched policy responses to globalization have decimated manufacturing employment with often overlooked costs for Black, Brown, and other workers of color: Investing in infrastructure and rebalancing trade can create good jobs for all
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Latest data release on unionization is a wake-up call to lawmakers: We must fix our broken system of labor law
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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
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The Freedom to Vote Act would boost voter participation and fulfill the goals of the March on Selma
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More than $3 billion in stolen wages recovered for workers between 2017 and 2020
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An economic recovery for whom?: Black women’s employment gaps show important differences in recovery rates
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Top EPI reports of 2021 focused on economic injustice and its remedies
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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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Moral policy = Good economics: Lifting up poor and working-class people—and our whole economy
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Latina Equal Pay Day: Latina workers remain greatly underpaid, including in front-line occupations
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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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The Raise the Wage Act would support essential care workers: Nearly 2 million direct care workers who provide long-term services and supports would benefit from a $15 minimum wage in 2025
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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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Black and brown workers saw the weakest wage gains over a 40-year period in which employers failed to increase wages with productivity
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By the Numbers: Income and Poverty, 2020
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The 2020 Census report highlights the costs of the pandemic and benefits of early policy safety net measures
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The promise and limits of high-pressure labor markets for narrowing racial gaps
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The racist campaign against ‘critical race theory’ threatens democracy and economic transformation
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State and local American Rescue Plan funds should be used to support an equitable recovery for workers