This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many years now, conventional solutions to income and wealth inequality—minimum wage, unions, progressive taxation, or guaranteed income—have failed to gain enough momentum to reverse the trend of greater and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rural places lost single-location grocery stores but gained dollar stores and regional “supercenters” from 1998 to 2015, according to the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The trend continues as dollar stores proliferate, especially during…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Front and center at COP26, carbon markets 2.0 seemed to be finally taking off. Net-zero corporate commitments are fueling demand as firms clamor to offset their hard-to-abate emissions with “high quality”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Improving job quality improves livelihoods and often transforms lives. Low-wage work in the US economy is far too pervasive. According to a Brookings Institution 2019 report, 53 million workers (44% of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even before the pandemic, many students — especially those from historically underserved groups — were leaving high school unprepared for the educational demands of good jobs and too few were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Washington Center for Equitable Growth has long prioritized the generation of new research on the economic effects of paid family and medical leave in the United States. This line…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Feb. 29, 2020, seven men walked into the education building at Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) as inmates. Three hours later, after passing a taxing Florida Department of Environmental Protection…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tens of thousands of California’s guest farmworkers and U.S. farmworkers will see pay increases in 2022, which advocates say comes thanks to their lawsuit to stop a Trump-era wage freeze.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As another year of extreme weather disasters draws to a close, a new report from the World Inequality Lab shows how disproportionately culpable the world’s richest people and nations are for climate pollution. “Global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rural communities throughout the United States are vibrant places with great people, rich culture and heritage, and deep social ties. But many rural communities have been buffeted by the increasing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Acceso Haiti, a social agribusiness, is working to build a strong food system and empower smallholder farming families with long-term opportunities and market access. Along with its partner initiatives across Colombia…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Job disruption as a result of automation and new technologies accelerated dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, it is clearer than ever that we need to examine how…