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  • Protecting workers through publicity during the pandemic

    July 29, 2020 By Terri Gerstein and Tanya Goldman Blog
  • What can we learn from the CFPB’s Spring 2020 Unified Agenda entries?

    July 28, 2020 By Diane Thompson Blog
  • ‘Black women best’: Why putting Black women first may save us from economic disaster

    June 25, 2020 By Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Blog
  • An open letter to economic institutions in the face of #BlackLivesMatter: Addressed to our allies in the economics community

    June 15, 2020 Blog
  • Release incarcerated Ohioans to flatten the coronavirus curve

    June 4, 2020 By Piet van Lier Blog
  • Radical far-right CFPB task force threatens consumer protection

    May 18, 2020 By Diane Thompson Blog
  • Weak labor protections have put Midwestern food processing workers at risk for coronavirus

    April 20, 2020 By Colin Gordon, Hannah Halbert, and Laura Dresser Blog
  • Do Black economists matter?: The media erasure of Black economic voices hurts the communities hardest hit by the pandemic and society at large

    April 13, 2020 By Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Blog
  • The Wild West: Gig workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic lack basic worker protections

    April 8, 2020 By Caroline Fredrickson Blog
  • Coronavirus job losses for the past two weeks could match two years of the Great Recession’s job losses: Estimates of new claims filed are 10 million

    April 3, 2020 By Aaron Sojourner and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham Blog
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