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Why President Obama’s Fair Pay and Safe Workplace Executive Order must be implemented under the new administration.

Letter from 31 civil rights, consumer, and community organizations urging the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to issue a recommendation that credit information no longer be used to determine eligibility for, or the cost of, auto or home insurance.

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. 

The Supreme Court should hold that Title VII bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

How taxpayers are bankrolling the paychecks of already-wealthy executives instead of supporting more livable wages for American workers struggling to get by.

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.

Executive actions the new administration can take to deliver economic relief and protect workers and families.

To fairly evaluate any higher education reform proposal, we must understand the ways that these dual burdens—less wealth and more debt—lead to worse outcomes for Black students than white students.

If the twin threats to public pensions continue, African American retirees may lose much of the retirement security they’ve gained over the past half-century.

Provide 12 weeks of paid benefits to employees who need time off work to care for a new child, a sick family member, or their own illness. The self-financing trust is funded by premiums paid equally by employers and employees.

Support for Growth, Job Creation, and Career Development

The white, wealthy donor class that fuels Baltimore's elections

This Explainer explores how the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is used in measuring our economic growth and whether alternative measures are also needed to provide a more comprehensive outlook of economic progress.  

Walmart's raises to $9 an hour in 2015 and then to $10 an hour in 2016 is a positive step forward, but it still falls short of giving workers the wages they need.

In 2013, Walmart spent billions repurchasing shares of its own stock. It should have spent it raising wages.

Public policies can either fuel or ease racial disparities in wealth. This report marks the first-ever systematic analysis of the impact of different policies, highlighting the policies that could help erase the racial wealth gap.

This report examines the effectiveness of the employment credit check laws enacted so far and finds that unjustified exemptions included in the laws, a failure to pursue enforcement, and a lack of public outreach have prevented these important employment protections from being as effective as they could be.

Why employment credit checks constitute an illegitimate barrier to employment.

How past racial injustices are carried forward as wealth handed down across generations and reinforced by “color-blind” practices and policies.

The working class today is much more complex and diverse than the white, male, manufacturing archetype often evoked in popular narratives.