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Extreme wage gaps within the fast food industry has made its sector the most unequal in the American economy
How we work every day to operationalize within our organization the racial equity and inclusion that we seek to advance in our country.
Research
November 15, 2018
Heather C. McGhee
Lucy Mayo
Angela Park
Public-sector jobs in Massachusetts are more likely than private-sector jobs to be good jobs that provide a family-supporting income and wealth-building benefits. They need to be preserved.
Research
November 20, 2018
This Explainer describes the legal requirements states must follow when maintaining voter rolls.
Research
February 15, 2017
From the time a baby is born, American families are trapped between the need to provide care for their children and the necessity of earning income.
Research
December 13, 2016
Amy Traub
Robert Hiltonsmith
Tamara Draut
In 2013, Walmart spent billions repurchasing shares of its own stock. It should have spent it raising wages.
Research
June 4, 2014
Catherine Ruetschlin
Amy Traub
This report presents new research on the scope of federally-supported employment in the private economy and shows how, using our over 1.3 trillion dollars in federal purchasing, the President of the United States can place over twenty million Americans on a pathway to the middle class.
Research
June 18, 2014
Robert Hiltonsmith
Lew Daly
How the retail industry fails to meet the needs of the Black and Latino workforce.
Research
June 2, 2015
Catherine Ruetschlin
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad
New York State’s Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) is a bold climate action policy for the people of New York.
Policy Briefs
March 20, 2019
How the Climate & Community Protection Act will Increase Resiliency for New York’s Latinx Communities
Policy Briefs
April 15, 2019
Lew Daly
Priya Mulgaonkar
How We Can Fix the Housing Affordability Crisis
Policy Briefs
April 26, 2019
A Primer for Advocates on the National Voter Registration Act
Policy Briefs
July 3, 2019
This report elevates the voices of affected communities across the country and provides important insights on the quest to vote.
Research
November 25, 2019
Gilda Daniels
Tyson D. King-Meadows
Loren M. Henderson
This forthcoming paper makes the case for why we need a new constitutional amendment—a Right-to-Vote Amendment for a 21st Century Democracy
Policy Briefs
December 16, 2019
If we truly want to build inclusive democracy, we must articulate an affirmative vision of voting rights in the Constitution itself.
Policy Briefs
August 26, 2020
Laura Williamson
Brenda Wright
Our racist criminal legal system denies voting rights to millions. We must end this practice of disenfranchisement in all its forms.
Policy Briefs
March 25, 2021
Laura Williamson
Naila Awan
Voter registration has long been weaponized to silence voters. And it’s not by accident.
Policy Briefs
October 7, 2020
Laura Williamson
Amshula K. Jayaram
It is time for us to recognize the right of sovereignty and self-determination for the over 4 million combined residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Washington, D.C.
Policy Briefs
February 9, 2021
Ensuring just and equitable access to and ownership of one our most vital natural resources—energy—is vital to building a vibrant, inclusive democracy.
Policy Briefs
March 25, 2021
Laura Williamson
Lew Daly
The specter of voter fraud is a talking point deployed to silence the voices of Black and brown voters across the country.
Policy Briefs
April 14, 2020
Chiraag Bains
Laura Williamson