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Achieving Economic and Racial Justice for Black Workers: Policy Priorities for 2021 and Beyond
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EPI comments on the proposed delay of effective date for the Independent Contractor Rule
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Learning during the pandemic: Lessons from the research on education in emergencies for COVID-19 and afterwards
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Martin Luther King called for leaders with ‘sound integrity’
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The Trump administration finalizes rule attacking federal workers’ right to union representation in workplace discrimination cases
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Teaching at the intersection of social-justice activism and education
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Top charts of 2020: The economic fallout of COVID-19
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Top five EPI blog posts of 2020
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Federal labor standards enforcement in agriculture: Data reveal the biggest violators and raise new questions about how to improve and target efforts to protect farmworkers
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Strike for the Common Good: Fighting for the Future of Public Education
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Contemporary Social Issues & the Latino Experience
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Racism and the Economy: Focus on Employment
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Latina Equal Pay Day: Essential Latina workers face substantial pay gap during COVID-19 pandemic
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A policy agenda to address the teacher shortage in U.S. public schools: The sixth and final report in the ‘Perfect Storm in the Teacher Labor Market’ series
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Young workers hit hard by the COVID-19 economy: Workers ages 16–24 face high unemployment and an uncertain future
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Preempting progress: State interference in local policymaking prevents people of color, women, and low-income workers from making ends meet in the South
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‘We prioritized open bars before giving resources to schools’: How the U.S. coronavirus response has failed students and teachers
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Who are America’s meat and poultry workers?
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Coronavirus Pandemic Poses Major Challenges to U.S. Students and Teachers—and Exacerbates Existing Education Inequities: A plan for relief, recovery, and rebuilding
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Racial disparities in income and poverty remain largely unchanged amid strong income growth in 2019
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COVID-19 and student performance, equity, and U.S. education policy: Lessons from pre-pandemic research to inform relief, recovery, and rebuilding
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Calling out anti-Blackness in our response to police violence and economic inequality
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Latinx workers—particularly women—face devastating job losses in the COVID-19 recession
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Black women workers are essential during the crisis and for the recovery but still are greatly underpaid
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Reconstruction 2020: Valuing Black Lives and Economic Opportunities for All
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‘Black women best’: Why putting Black women first may save us from economic disaster
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Inequities exposed: How COVID-19 widened racial inequities in education, health, and the workforce: Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor
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A majority of workers are fearful of coronavirus infections at work, especially Black, Hispanic, and low- and middle-income workers: Those facing risks are not proportionately receiving extra compensation
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An open letter to economic institutions in the face of #BlackLivesMatter: Addressed to our allies in the economics community
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Black deaths at the hands of law enforcement are linked to historical lynchings: U.S. counties where lynchings were more prevalent from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved killings