The work of the BLS, the impact of the agency not releasing its employment situation report, and how BLS budget constraints will affect data collection.

Equitable Growth

03.10.2025

U.S. workers’ and managers’ experiences with Fair Workweek laws can inform enforcement and education - Equitable Growth

This factsheet offers information that may help close this gap between Fair Workweek laws’ intentions and their real-world impacts.

Equitable Growth

03.10.2025

How Are Workers Experiencing Fair Workweek Laws? Evidence for policymakers and advocates - Equitable Growth

New laws that regulate employer scheduling practices have been enacted in ten U.S. localities over the last decade.

Equitable Growth

02.10.2025

Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data - Equitable Growth

This working paper uses O*NET as a framework for building natural language processing tools that extract structured information from job postings.

Equitable Growth

02.10.2025

Federal data is under attack, but data users can work together to preserve and democratize it - Equitable Growth

Reliable federal data accessible in a timely manner to inform decision-making is foundational for economic growth and equity in the United States.

Equitable Growth

25.09.2025

In Conversation with Omari Swinton - Equitable Growth

Sanjay Supan speaks with Omari Swinton about racial disparities in higher education and the role of HBCUs in economic mobility in this installment of In Conversation.

Equitable Growth

24.09.2025

Emergency paid leave during the COVID-19 pandemic offered essential protections for U.S. workers - Equitable Growth

Paid leave benefits protected workers against the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and helped fill a longstanding gap in U.S. social infrastructure.

Equitable Growth

24.09.2025

Fitting the Bill? The First Federal Paid Leave Mandate - Equitable Growth

The first federal paid leave mandate in the United Stated increased paid leave taking by nearly 200% for eligible workers.

Equitable Growth

19.09.2025

Equitable Growth announces funding for research on the impact of AI on U.S. workers and competition - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth announces a new cohort of grantees studying how artificial intelligence and new technology can support workers and promote competition across the U.S. economy.

Equitable Growth

12.09.2025

Populist voters feel a sense of loss that is reshaping democracies around the world - Equitable Growth

This essay delves into nostalgic deprivation and its root causes before projecting future trends in populist support at the national level.

Equitable Growth

12.09.2025

To restore democracy, end shareholder primacy at U.S. corporations and on Wall Street - Equitable Growth

The role of corporations and big financial institutions in the U.S. economy and how shareholder primacy shapes the American capitalist system.

Equitable Growth

12.09.2025

A place-based economic development strategy to foster rural U.S. prosperity - Equitable Growth

How a three-pronged, place-based strategy to spur economic growth in rural communities across the country boasts proven success.

Equitable Growth

12.09.2025

How U.S. tax policies have fueled right-wing populism - Equitable Growth

The federal income-tax system has become less progressive as wealthy Americans bend tax policies and the system in their favor.

Equitable Growth

12.09.2025

Threats to social status and support for far-right political parties - Equitable Growth

How economic threats to social status in the form of unemployment risk and rental market risk affects support for the far right in Europe.

Equitable Growth

11.09.2025

Even health care, the strongest sector of the U.S. jobs market, cannot deliver the wages its workers deserve without unionization - Equitable Growth

Health care workers are well-positioned to lead the future of the U.S. labor movement and rebuild unions' standing as a necessary force for all workers nationwide.

Equitable Growth

05.09.2025

In Her Hands: A Guaranteed Income Initiative - Equitable Growth

In Her Hands is a guaranteed income initiative aimed at addressing persistent economic insecurity among women in neighborhoods with some of Georgia's highest poverty rates.

Equitable Growth

02.09.2025

States can support children and their economies using direct cash assistance from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program - Equitable Growth

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program provides critically needed support to some of the lowest-income families with children.

Equitable Growth

02.09.2025

The Federal Reserve must maintain its independence for the U.S. economy to thrive - Equitable Growth

President Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook directly threatens the Fed’s independence and the stability of the U.S. economy.

Equitable Growth

21.08.2025

Equitable Growth awards funding to early career scholars studying the effects of economic inequality - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth has awarded funding to seven early career scholars seeking to better understand the effects of economic inequality in the United States.

Equitable Growth

21.08.2025

How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it - Equitable Growth

How surveillance pay practices work, where they are increasingly deployed in the U.S. economy, and policy recommendations to ensure pay fairness and transparency.

Equitable Growth

17.08.2025

What is austerity, and how does it affect the broader U.S. economy? - Equitable Growth

An FAQ on austerity and the broader economic effects of cuts to federal spending

Equitable Growth

08.08.2025

Why Financial Crises Recur - Equitable Growth

Lawmakers deliberate attempts at improving financial stability—including the so-called “GENIUS Act” to regulate stablecoins—have fallen short because of two main errors.

Equitable Growth

30.07.2025

Tariffs impact U.S. industries differently, with manufacturing the most exposed - Equitable Growth

How tariffs on imported inputs could raise costs for U.S. industries and workers—with a novel interlinked dataset and code for researchers.

Equitable Growth

29.07.2025

How are Municipal-Level Fair Workweek Laws Playing Out on the Ground? Experiences of Food Service and Retail Workers in Three Cities - Equitable Growth

This examination of fair workweek laws in three cities provides information for improving work schedules in covered jobs.

Equitable Growth

29.07.2025

Equity Prices, Market Power, and Optimal Corporate Tax Policy - Equitable Growth

A novel contribution to the optimal tax literature, with a focus on the interaction between market power and corporate tax policy.

Equitable Growth

16.07.2025

Accounting for capital gains in income significantly increases U.S. inequality - Equitable Growth

Capital gains in the United States are large and are distributed very unequally along the income distribution, with the bulk of them going to the very top.

Equitable Growth

15.07.2025

The 10 worst policies for equitable economic growth in the 2025 budget reconciliation law - Equitable Growth

The 2025 budget reconciliation law’s 10 most harmful policies for Americans and economic growth over the next decade and beyond.

Equitable Growth

12.07.2025

Republican reconciliation bill’s cuts to social programs will damage some congressional districts’ local economies - Equitable Growth

Republican reconciliation bill cuts to social programs will prevent money from circulating among local businesses and damage regional economies.

Equitable Growth

11.07.2025

Adoption of generative AI will have different effects across jobs in the U.S. logistics workforce - Equitable Growth

An exploration of the mechanisms that may shape generative AI's potential to transform the U.S. logistics workforce.

Equitable Growth

09.07.2025

Slow wage growth is the key to understanding U.S. inequality in the 21st century - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth's U.S. Inequality Tracker tracks income and wealth inequality and highlights how particular components of income and wealth shape trends.

Equitable Growth

08.07.2025

Equitable Growth responds to passage of the federal budget bill - Equitable Growth

The 2025 federal budget bill exacerbates inequality by sending more than 50 percent of its tax benefits to the top 10 percent of U.S. households.

Equitable Growth

04.07.2025

Americans informed about the distributional effects of Republicans’ tax and budget bill overwhelmingly oppose it - Equitable Growth

Republicans’ tax and budget bill would, if enacted, be the most regressive U.S. tax and budget law in at least the past four decades.

Equitable Growth

02.07.2025

Optimal Monetary Policy Under Menu Costs - Equitable Growth

In a multisector economy with menu costs, allowing inflation to respond to sectoral shocks yields higher welfare than strict inflation targeting.

Equitable Growth

26.06.2025

Congressional Republicans’ budget bill is the most regressive in at least 40 years - Equitable Growth

Jacob Hacker and Patrick Sullivan shine a light on the hidden regressive elements of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Equitable Growth

26.06.2025

Americans Informed About the Distributional Effects of Republicans’ Budget Bill Overwhelmingly Oppose It - Equitable Growth

Survey results show that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is broadly unpopular—overwhelmingly so after respondents learned of its regressive distributional effects.

Equitable Growth

25.06.2025

Financial and Transfer Income as Components of the Regional Economic Base - Equitable Growth

Government transfers and financial income form a major component of the basic sector in the United States.

Equitable Growth

25.06.2025

Medicaid and SNAP cuts in congressional Republicans’ budget bill will negatively impact local economies - Equitable Growth

New research shows how cuts to Medicaid and other social programs negatively impact local economies as well as program beneficiaries.

Equitable Growth

18.06.2025

Testimony by Michael Linden on “The Big Beautiful Betrayal—Working Folks Pay While The Mega Rich Profit” - Equitable Growth

Michael Linden testifies on the Republican budget bill's wealth transfer to the rich and its detrimental impact on American families.

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Rethinking U.S. economic mobility to study change within a generation - Equitable Growth

Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility - Equitable Growth

The status of U.S. labor market data amid the government shutdown - Equitable Growth

U.S. workers’ and managers’ experiences with Fair Workweek laws can inform enforcement and education - Equitable Growth

How Are Workers Experiencing Fair Workweek Laws? Evidence for policymakers and advocates - Equitable Growth

Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data - Equitable Growth

Federal data is under attack, but data users can work together to preserve and democratize it - Equitable Growth

In Conversation with Omari Swinton - Equitable Growth

Emergency paid leave during the COVID-19 pandemic offered essential protections for U.S. workers - Equitable Growth

Fitting the Bill? The First Federal Paid Leave Mandate - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth announces funding for research on the impact of AI on U.S. workers and competition - Equitable Growth

Populist voters feel a sense of loss that is reshaping democracies around the world - Equitable Growth

To restore democracy, end shareholder primacy at U.S. corporations and on Wall Street - Equitable Growth

A place-based economic development strategy to foster rural U.S. prosperity - Equitable Growth

How U.S. tax policies have fueled right-wing populism - Equitable Growth

Threats to social status and support for far-right political parties - Equitable Growth

Even health care, the strongest sector of the U.S. jobs market, cannot deliver the wages its workers deserve without unionization - Equitable Growth

In Her Hands: A Guaranteed Income Initiative - Equitable Growth

States can support children and their economies using direct cash assistance from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program - Equitable Growth

The Federal Reserve must maintain its independence for the U.S. economy to thrive - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth awards funding to early career scholars studying the effects of economic inequality - Equitable Growth

How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it - Equitable Growth

What is austerity, and how does it affect the broader U.S. economy? - Equitable Growth

Why Financial Crises Recur - Equitable Growth

Tariffs impact U.S. industries differently, with manufacturing the most exposed - Equitable Growth

How are Municipal-Level Fair Workweek Laws Playing Out on the Ground? Experiences of Food Service and Retail Workers in Three Cities - Equitable Growth

Equity Prices, Market Power, and Optimal Corporate Tax Policy - Equitable Growth

Accounting for capital gains in income significantly increases U.S. inequality - Equitable Growth

The 10 worst policies for equitable economic growth in the 2025 budget reconciliation law - Equitable Growth

Republican reconciliation bill’s cuts to social programs will damage some congressional districts’ local economies - Equitable Growth

Adoption of generative AI will have different effects across jobs in the U.S. logistics workforce - Equitable Growth

Slow wage growth is the key to understanding U.S. inequality in the 21st century - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth responds to passage of the federal budget bill - Equitable Growth

Americans informed about the distributional effects of Republicans’ tax and budget bill overwhelmingly oppose it - Equitable Growth

Optimal Monetary Policy Under Menu Costs - Equitable Growth

Congressional Republicans’ budget bill is the most regressive in at least 40 years - Equitable Growth

Americans Informed About the Distributional Effects of Republicans’ Budget Bill Overwhelmingly Oppose It - Equitable Growth

Financial and Transfer Income as Components of the Regional Economic Base - Equitable Growth

Medicaid and SNAP cuts in congressional Republicans’ budget bill will negatively impact local economies - Equitable Growth

Testimony by Michael Linden on “The Big Beautiful Betrayal—Working Folks Pay While The Mega Rich Profit” - Equitable Growth

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