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Advancing anti-racist economic research and policy: Perspectives and resources on race, ethnicity, and the economy
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Chasing the dream of equity: How policy has shaped racial economic disparities
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Guiding principles for anti-racist research, the 'bodycam' for racial economic injustice
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Voter suppression makes the racist and anti-worker Southern model possible: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight
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Summer unemployment benefits could increase K–12 support staff incomes by $1.2 billion nationwide
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The public-sector pay gap is widening. Unions help shrink it.
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Improving teacher diversity is key to reducing racial disparities in academic outcomes and addressing the teacher shortage
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Chicago Public Schools should try to maintain spending levels even as federal pandemic relief funds come to an end
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Southern policymakers leave workers with lower wages and a fraying safety net: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Three
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Half of U.S. states have passed the CROWN Act to ban hair discrimination
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Examining the economic impact of language proficiency on AAPI populations
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Tipping is a racist relic and a modern tool of economic oppression in the South: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight
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Breaking down the South’s economic underperformance: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Two
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Alabama’s and Maryland’s similar Black unemployment rates mask major differences in labor market conditions
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Class of 2024: Young high school graduates have seen strong wage growth over the pandemic recovery
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Operation Dixie failed 78 years ago. Are today’s Southern workers about to change all that?
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Tight labor markets are essential to reducing racial disparities and within the purview of the Fed’s dual mandate
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Waffle House strike highlights the harms of the Southern economic development model
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The free market won’t solve our nationwide housing affordability problem: Equity-focused policy is the solution
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The evolution of the Southern economic development strategy: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part One
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A tight labor market and state minimum wage increases boosted low-end wage growth between 2019 and 2023
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A record-breaking recovery for Black and Hispanic workers: Prime-age employment rates have hit an all-time high alongside tremendous wage growth
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Loc-ing students out: Darryl George, the CROWN Act, and the need to combat racial discrimination in the classroom
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Fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged groups: Low-wage workers’ wages surged after decades of slow growth
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Gender wage gap persists in 2023: Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average
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The soft bigotry of high expectations: To combat the Black-white school achievement gap, remedy persistent segregation, don’t hope for miracle teachers
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Twenty-two states will increase their minimum wages on January 1, raising pay for nearly 10 million workers
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Native American child poverty more than doubled in 2022 after safety net cutbacks: Child poverty rate is higher than before the pandemic
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The school bus driver shortage remains severe: Without job quality improvements, workers, children, and parents will suffer
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The strong labor market recovery has helped Hispanic workers, but the end of economic relief measures has worsened income and poverty disparities
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Rooted in racism and economic exploitation: The failed Southern economic development model
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Despite a strong labor market, the choice to allow pandemic-era public assistance programs to expire increased poverty across all racial groups in 2022
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A history of the federal minimum wage: 85 years later, the minimum wage is far from equitable