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Robert Hiltonsmith

How the retail industry fails to meet the needs of the Black and Latino workforce.

Research
Catherine Ruetschlin
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad

Financialization is a major driver of growing inequality and undermines key sources of growth and job creation.

Research
Wallace C. Turbeville

Why better measures of government output can help us grasp potentially damaging tradeoffs between fiscal austerity and collective needs.

Research
Lew Daly

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

Research
Catherine Ruetschlin
Amy Traub

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
Amy Traub
Robert Hiltonsmith
Tamara Draut

How and why two types of theft—wage theft and shoplifting—are treated so differently.

Research
Amy Traub

This report was completed in collaboration with the Advancement Project, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Demos, Faith in Action, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Congress of American Indians, National Urban League, Race Forward, and UnidosUS. These

Policy Briefs
Lake Research Partners

How we work every day to operationalize within our organization the racial equity and inclusion that we seek to advance in our country.

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Heather C. McGhee
Lucy Mayo
Angela Park

Both economic and racial justice are core progressive priorities, but too often we discuss them separately. On the contrary, racial and economic harms are intertwined, as are our desired solutions to them. Wealthy elites exploit racial fears to turn working people against each other and government

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