Labor and Employment - More Policy Analyses and Research
2011
NELP: House Leadership Bill Slashes Unemployment Insurance (12/12/11) NELP: Hanging on By a Thread (10/11/11) CBPP: Today's Jobs Report in Pictures (10/6/11) CLASP: American Jobs Act: New Work and Learning Opportunities for Low-Income, Unemployed Adults and Youth (9/21/11) The Brookings Institution:A Decade of Slack Labor Markets (8/9/11) NELP: Report: States Made Unprecedented Cuts to Unemployment Insurance in 2011 (8/3/11) EPI 21st Century School Fund: Creating Jobs Through FAST!, a Proposed New Infrastructure Program to Repair America's Public Schools (8/11/11) EPI: Job Growth Still Sputtering in Lowest Gear (8/5/11) NELP: The President's FY 2012 Budget: Federal Priorities in Unemployment Insurance, Workforce Development, and Worker Rights (3/9/11)
2010
NELP: A Long Road Ahead: Why Federal Benefit Extensions are Crucial to the Economy in 2011 (11/5/10) NWLC: The Unemployment Emergency Continues for Women and their Families - But the Emergency Unemployment Compensation is About to Expire (October 2010) EPI: Graduate Employment Gap: Students of Color Losing Ground (10/28/10) EPI: Job Loss by State: An Interactive Map (10/27/10) NELP: Out in the Cold for the Holidays: Federal Jobless Benefits Will Be Cut for More than One Million Workers Starting November 30 if Congress Fails to Renew Emergency Program (10/27/10) Pew Economic Policy Group: A Year of More: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment (10/7/10) EPI: How to Lose Over a Million Jobs: Sacrifice Investments to Cut Taxes for the Rich (9/23/10) NELP: 3.3 Million People Kept Out of Poverty with Unemployment Benefits in 2009: Recovery Act's Expansion of Benefits Dramatically Increased Unemployment Insurance's Role in Poverty Alleviation from 2008 (9/17/10) CBPP: Walking Away From a Win-Win-Win (9/2/10) NELP: Where the Jobs Are: A First Look at Private Industry Job Growth and Wages in 2010 (8/27/10) CBPP: July 30 Data Release Will Capture Only a Portion of the Jobs Created or Saved by the Recovery Act (7/30/10) CBPP: Going, Going, Almost Gone: Job-Creating TANF Emergency Fund Set to Expire. Fund Will Help Place 240,000 Unemployed Individuals in Jobs by End of September (7/26/10) CEPR: The Adult Recession: Age-Adjusted Unemployment at Post-War Highs (July 2010) EPI: Job Creation at a Glacial Pace (7/2/10) CAP: Opening Doors: How to Make the Workforce Investment Act Work for Women (July 2010) CAP & NELP: Today's Unemployment Crisis by the Numbers (June 2010) NORC: Paid Sick Days: Attitudes and Experiences (June 2010) CAP: Low-Income Fathers Need to Get Connected: Helping Children and Families by Addressing Low-Income Fathers' Disconnections from Employment, Society, and Housing (June 2010)CBPP: "YouCut" Vote Mischaracterizes TANF Emergency Fund (5/20/10) CAP: Tax Extenders 101: A Primer on Job Creation and Relief for American Families (5/19/10) EPI: Cheaper Than You Think: Why Smart Efforts to Spur Jobs Cost Less Than Advertised (5/18/10) EPI: The Class of 2010: Economic Prospects for Young Adults in the Recession (5/11/10) CBPP: TANF Emergency Fund Extension Has Wide Support (5/3/10) WESC: Aiming Higher: Removing Barriers to Education, Training and Jobs for Low-Income Women (April 2010) National Partnership for Women & Families: Everyone Gets Sick. Not Everyone Has Time to Get Better. A Briefing Book on Establishing a National Paid Sick Days Standard (4/26/10) CAP: Families Can't Afford the Gender Wage Gap: Equal Pay Day 2010 (April 2010) CBPP: Policy Basics: How Many Weeks of Unemployment Compensation Are Available? (4/21/10) CCC: The Local Jobs for America Act: Putting People Back to Work Quickly in the Jobs We Need Most (4/19/10) CBPP: Premature End of Federal Assistance to States Threatens Education Reforms and Jobs (4/19/10) CBPP: Congress Should Act Quickly to Extend UI/COBRA Benefits Through the End of this Year: Support Would Help the Unemployed and the Economy (4/12/10) EPI: For Job Seekers, No Recovery in Sight: Why Prospects for Job Growth and Unemployment Remain Dim (3/31/10) NILC: Reverification of Employment Eligibility: Frequently Asked Questions (March 2010) CAP: Resolving Work-Life Conflicts: Progressives Have Answers (March 2010) NILC: How Errors in E-Verify Databases Impact U.S. Citizens and Lawfully Present Immigrants (March 2010) NELP: Workers Prematurely Cut-Off of Federal Jobless Benefits During April 2010 Due to Expiration of the Recovery Act's UI Provision (March 2010) CAP: Our Working Nation: How Working Women Are Reshaping America's Families and Economy and What It Means for Policymakers (March 2010) IPC: How Expanding E-Verify Would Hurt American Workers and Business (3/2/10) CBPP: With Long-Term Unemployment at Record Levels, Congress Should Extend Recovery Act's Unemployment Insurance Provisions Through 2010 (2/22/10) CBPP: Extending the TANF Emergency Fund Would Create and Preserve Jobs Quickly and Efficiently (2/17/10) NELP: Workers Losing Federal Unemployment Benefits in 2010 Due to Expiration of the ARRA (February 2010) CLASP: Building a Comprehensive Youth Employment Delivery System: Examples of Effective Practice (February 2010) CLASP: Workforce Investment Act: Recommendations on Performance Accountability in the Workforce Education and Training System (February 2010) CAP: A Better Way to Help the Unemployed: Congress Should Extend Benefits and Fix the Unemployment Insurance System (2/9/10) EPI: Immigration and Wages: Methodological Advancements Confirm Modest Gains for Native Workers (2/4/10) WAND/IPS: What Kinds of Federal Spending Create the Most Good Jobs? (February 2010) WOW: WOW's Proposed Nonprofit Tax Credit in White House Job Plan (1/29/10) CLASP: Job Creation: Extending the TANF Emergency Fund Creates Jobs Now (1/8/10) First Focus Campaign for Children: Families of the Recession: Unemployed Parents and their Children (January 2010) CAP: The Recession Marches On: Continued Job Loss Highlights Need for Job Creation Measures(1/8/10)
2009
CHN: If It's Jobless, It's Not a Recovery - Working Paper (12/18/09) CHN: If It's Jobless, It's Not a Recovery: A Jobs Agenda for Sustained and Shared Recovery - Job Creation Principles (12/15/09) CAP Action Fund and NELP: Keeping a First Line of Defense for the Jobless (12/7/09) TWA: Job Training is Key to Success of Jobs Bill: Analysis and Recommendations (December 2009) WOW: A Women's Agenda for Job Creation (December 2009) CEPR: The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit (December 2009) CCC: The Community Infrastructure Program Creating Jobs, Rebuilding Communities (11/23/09) CLASP: Job Creation: Creating Work and Learning Opportunities for Low-Income Populations (11/18/09) WOW: Provide for Inclusive Hiring in Any Jobs Creation in Infrastructure Development (11/17/09) NCLR: Latino Priorities in a Job Creation Package (11/17/09) CAP: National Service and Youth Unemployment: Strategies for Job Creation Amid Economic Recovery (11/16/09) AFSCME: Save Main Street Jobs by Stabilizing State and Locally Administered Public Services (November 2009) NYEC: Workforce Investment Act Title I Youth Activities Reauthorization Recommendations (November 2009) CEPR: The Changing Face of Labor 1983-2008 (November 2009) NELP: Q&A About Benefit Extensions Under H.R. 3548, the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 (11/9/09) EPI: Double-Digit Unemployment (11/6/09) CAP: Unemployment Rises Above 10 Percent for the First Time in 26 Years (11/6/09) EPI: The Plan to End the Jobs Crisis: The Economy Requires a comprehensive Response for a Full Recovery (10/20/09) EPI: The Job Creation Tax Credit: Dismal Projections for Employment Call for a Quick, Efficient, and Effective Response (10/20/09) EPI: Complementing Recovery Policies with a Jobs Creation Tax Credit (10/20/09) CEPR: Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment (October 2009) AFL-CIO, American Rights at Work Education Fund & NELP: Iced Out: How Immigration Enforcement has Interfered with Workers' Rights (October 2009) IWPR: Unemployment Among Single Mother Families (September 2009) LCCR: Let All Voices Be Heard: Restoring the Right of Workers to Form Unions: a National Priority and Civil and Human Rights Imperative (September 2009) Urban Institute: Rising Senior Unemployment and the Need to Work at Older Ages (9/23/09) NCLR: Fractures in the Foundation: The Latino Worker's Experience in an Era of Declining Job Quality (9/1/09) NILC: Facts About Internal Revenue Service No-Match Letters (July 2009) Center for American Progress: Job Outlook Still Bleak (6/5/09) NELP: Extending Training Opportunities to Jobless Workers (5/27/09) NELP: The Severe Crisis of Job Loss and the Accompanying Long Term Unemployment By Sylvia Allegretto and Andrew Stettner (5/6/09) CEPR: Contagion Nation: A Comparison of Paid Sick Day Policies in 22 Countries (May 2009) CEPR: U.S. Unemployment Now as High as Europe (May 2009) CLASP: Making the Employment Connection: New Opportunities to Support Transitional Jobs Programs Using the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund (4/3/09) NILC: Facts About the Social Security "No-Match" Letter (3/26/08) NCCP: Paid Leave in the States: a Critical Support for Low-wage Workers and Their Families (March 2009) CEPR: Economics and Politics of Work-Family Policy: The Case for a State Family Leave Insurance Program (Spring 2009) Center for American Progress: Interactive Map: Unemployment Rising in Every State (3/11/09) Center for American Progress: No Good News for Workers: Employers Continue to Shed Jobs at a Record Pace (4/3/09) NILC: Basic Pilot/E-Verify - Why Mandatory Employer Participation will Hurt Workers, Businesses, and the Struggling US. Economy (February 2009) NILC: Why States and Localities Should Not Require Employer Participation in Basic Pilot/E-Verify (February 2009)
2008
CEPR: Employment in Free Fall, Economy Loses 5333,000 Jobs (12/5/08) NILC: Facts About Basic Pilot/E-Verify (October 2008) NCLR: Labor Day 2008: A Snapshot of the Latino Workforce (8/28/08) IWPR: The Gender Wage Gap: 2007 (8/26/08) The Mobility Agenda: Work-Life Policies for the Twenty-First Century Economy (6/11/08) CEPR: Working Families and Economic Insecurity in the States: The Role of Job Quality and Work Supports (5/21/08) CBPP & EPI: Pulling Apart: A state-by-state Analysis of Income Trends (April 2008) CBPP: New Data Show Income Concentration Rose Again in 2006 (3/27/08) CEPR: Movin' On Up: Reforming America's Social Contract to Provide a Bridge to the Middle Class (February 2008) 2007
CEPR: Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns (January 2007) 2006
NWLC: Working Women Need an Increase in the Minimum Wage--Now! (December 2006) IPS and UFE: Executive Excess 2006: Defense and Oil Executives Cash in on Conflict (8/30/06) NELP: End of the Road for Gulf Coast Families - Congress Must Extend Jobless Benefits by March (2/20/06) The Workforce Alliance: Bush Administration Releases FY 2007 Budget (2/17/06) CLASP: Reform or Dismantling? President's Workforce System Proposal Raises Serious Concerns (2/16/06) IWPR: Paid Sick Days Improve Public Health by Reducing Spread of Disease (February 2006) National Partnership for Women & Families: Where Families Matter - State Progress Report on Family Leave (2/16/06)
2005
CEPR: Are Women Opting Out? Debunking the Myth (weakness in labor market) (11/30/05) CHN: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Slashes Services for Low-Income People (11/17/05) The Workforce Alliance: Workforce (Re)Development in the Gulf Region: A Three-Part Agenda for Action (11/15/05) National Council of Churches: Religious Leaders Announce National Grassroots Campaign to Raise Wages at the Federal and State Levels (11/5/04) EPI: The Boom That Wasn't: The Economy Has Little to Show for $860 Billion in Tax Cuts (10/24/05) CEPR: How Good is the Economy at Creating Good Jobs? (10/18/05) EPI: Lessons for Post-Katrina Reconstruction (10/6/05) Journal of Poverty Law & Policy: Education and Labor Market Plight of Youth in High-Poverty Communities (8/23/05) Annie E Casey: 2005 KIDS COUNT Report Shows Increase in Child Poverty (7/27/05) includes data about unemployment and low-wage work EPI: Single Mothers Continue To Face A Tough Job Market (7/27/05) The Workforce Alliance: May-June Washington Update (7/6/05) The Workforce Alliance: House-Passed Funding for Fiscal Year 2006 for Key Job Training Programs (7/1/05) New America Foundation: Running Faster to Stay in Place: Growth of Family Work Hours and Incomes (6/23/05) National Partnership for Women and Families: Family and Medical Leave Threatened (6/3/05) EPI and NELP: Long Term Joblessness Grows (5/26/05) EPI: Unemployment Rate and Long-Term Unemployment Rate Continue to Diverge (5/19/05) CEPR: No Way Out: How Prime-Age Workers Get Trapped in Minimum Wage Jobs (5/18/05) Workforce Alliance March-April Washington Update (5/8/05) National Partnership: Expecting Better - State-by-State Analysis of Family Leave Programs (5/5/05) Family Leave Coalition: Letter to Department of Labor on Family Leave (5/5/05) ACTE: Employment Rates for Youth Remain Low (5/4/05) CLASP: Recommendations for WIA Reauthorization - Title I Youth Provisions (5/2/05) IWPR: Valuing Good Health (A Cost Benefit Analysis of the Healthy Families Act (4/27/05) AFL-CIO: Employee Free Choice Act Would Protect Workers' Freedom to Organize (4/19/05) U. of Michigan: Disabled at Work: Hidden Cost of Jobs for Older Americans (4/19/05) CLASP: Senate WIA Reauthorization Bill Should Not Adopt Administration's Consolidation Proposals (4/15/05) CLASP: Recommendations for WIA Reauthorization - Title I Provisions Affecting Disadvantaged Adults (4/11/05) CEPR: Medicaid and Mothers' Employment and Wages (March 2005) EPI: Santorum Minimum Wage Amendment Hides Serious Threats to Working Families (3/4/05) CLASP: President's Budget Sabotages Pipeline of Skilled Workers (2/22/05) WomenWork!: Chutes and Ladders: The Search for Solid Ground for Women in the Workforce (2/17/05) EPI: Personal Reemployment Accounts Fail to Address Real Needs of Workers (2/16/05) TomPaine: Beyond Latchkey Kids (1/26/05) EPI Jobwatch: Final Grade on Bush Tax Cuts: Failure to Produce Jobs (1/25/05) Urban: Single Parents' Earnings Monitor - How Did the Recession Affect Single Mothers (1/12/05) EPI: Slowdown in male earnings leads to smaller gender wage gap (1/5/05) The Workforce Alliance: Funding for Selected Workforce Training Programs (1/5/05)
2004 Urban: Serving People with Disabilities Through One-Stop Career Centers (11/4/04) IWPR: Women and the Economy - Recent Trends in Job Loss, Labor Force Participation, and Wages (October 2004) Corporate Voices: National Survey on Low Wage Work in America (September 2004) EPI: State of Working America 2004/2005 press release (9/5/04) CEPR: Displaced Workers Face Tough Labor Market (7/19/04) CDF: Nearly One in Ten Children Would Benefit From Minimum Wage Increase (7/8/04) CBPP: Employment Rates of Single Mothers Fell (6/22/04) NELP: Low Wage But Exempt From Overtime (6/7/04) CLASP: Why Funding for Job Training Matters (5/27/04) Urban Institute: Getting Time Off: Access to Leave among Working Parents (4/22/04) CBPP: One Million Unemployed Workers Denied Aid (3/25/04) CHN FY05 Budget Analysis (3/4/04) CBPP: Administration's Budget Would Cut Many Areas Of Domestic Discretionary Spending After 2005 (2/27/04) US Conference of Catholic Bishops: Budgeting for Poverty (2/23/04) CBPP: White House Backs Off CEA Prediction of 'Average' Job Growth (2/19/04) Missing the Moving Target: The Meager Job Growth of the Bush Administration (2/12/04) EPI: Weak Recovery Claims New Victim: Workers' Wages (2/5/04) NELP: Complying With Immigration Law Without Violating Employees' Rights (January 2004) American Prospect: Can We Give America A Raise: The Problem of Low-Wage Work (1/20/04)
2003 The New, Definitive CBO Data on Income and Tax Trends (9/23/03) EPI Analysis of Department of Labor Overtime Rule Claims (9/3/03) Urban Institute: Changes in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage (9/1/03) Eliminating the Right to Overtime Pay (6/26/03) Joblessness Outlasting Federal Help for 2/3 of the Program Recipients (6/5/03) Raising Low Pay in a High Income Economy (May 2003) Training a Workforce: What Will Keep America Working Into the 21st Century (5/9/03)
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