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Weekend reading: How to return to work safely edition
This is a post we publish each Friday with links to articles that touch on economic inequality and growth. The
Policy options for building resilient U.S. medical supply networks
Overview U.S. policymakers in Congress across the political spectrum, from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) to
Equitable Growth names two new Dissertation Scholars
A critical part of our mission at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth is to build a pipeline of young
Unboxing scheduling practices for U.S. warehouse workers
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The coronavirus recession and economic inequality: A roadmap to recovery and long-term structural change
This post reflects our organization’s overall guiding policy principles for confronting the coronavirus recession and its relationship to U.S. economic
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Six states have at least one million workers either receiving regular unemployment benefits or waiting for their claim to be approved
The Department of Labor (DOL) released the most recent unemployment insurance (UI) claims data yesterday, showing that another 1.9 millionMore than one in five workers are either receiving unemployment benefits or waiting for approval: Congress must do much, much more
Last week, 3.1 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the tenth week in a row that initial unemploymentCriminalization of black and brown communities in the Midwest adds to public health crisis during COVID-19 pandemic
The first installment of this three-part series on the impact of the coronavirus in the Midwest describes how weak laborWithout federal aid, many state and local governments could make the same budget cuts that hampered the last economic recovery
If policymakers should learn one lesson from the long, sluggish recovery from the Great Recession, it is that cutting publicRepublicans and corporate interests exploit coronavirus crisis to erase companies’ liability
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) announced that they are working on legislation to give
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Politicians Have Lied about Social Security. The US Must Elect Someone Who'll Fight for It
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian, February 2, 2020