People of color suffer direct and damaging impacts from laws, policies, and practices that exclude them from full and equal participation in the labor market and the workplace.

Employers pay black women who work full-time, year-round just 63 cents for each dollar they pay to non-Hispanic white men.

For decades, black unemployment has remained roughly twice the rate of unemployment for white workers, regardless of a job seeker’s level of education. Social exclusion shows us why.

For the working poor, getting married is hardly a guarantee of ascendance, explains Amy Traub, an associate director of policy and research at the thinktank Demos. She highlights the reality of surviving with low wages, no paid sick leave, no paid parental leave, and no subsidized childcare. Traub’s

The Sleeping Giant Paperback Offers New Insights on the 2016 Election and the Economic Conditions of the New Working Class

Family comes first. That means all families should have access to affordable and high-quality choices for their children’s early care and education.

We all have to grow up, whether we want to or not. The Toys 'R' Us announcement that it is closing its U.S. stores should be a pivotal moment in the maturation of how we as a nation think about wealth and debt, and the rules that make it possible for companies and communities to be resilient.

The unemployment rate underestimates the problem of joblessness.This underestimation is very significant for African American workers.

The 25 bold must-do policies address the top challenges facing hard-working people across America