Women’s dual role as workers, investors, and owners in the U.S. economy and as primary caretakers within most families constrains their opportunities and imposes barriers on sharing the gains of economic growth. The gender wage gap and occupational segregation by gender remain consistent features of the economy. Equitable Growth digs deep to analyze the ways gender impacts economic outcomes and what solutions can begin to push back on the social forces that impede economic success regardless of one’s gender.
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Factsheet: What the research says about the economic impacts of reproductive care
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Beauty products for women of color and femme-identifying people of color perpetuate U.S. health and other socioeconomic inequalities
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African American men and the U.S. labor market during recessions and economic recoveries
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The economic imperative of enacting paid family leave across the United States
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Policies to strengthen our nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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Race and the lack of intergenerational economic mobility in the United States
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Overcoming social exclusion: Addressing race and criminal justice policy in the United States
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The logistics of a reparations program in the United States
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Promote economic and racial justice: Eliminate student loan debt and establish a right to higher education across the United States
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Unequally Insecure: Rising Black/White Disparities in Job Displacement, 1981-2017
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Equitable Growth CEO Talks All Things Economic Inequality in Recent Reddit “Ask Me Anything” series
October 21, 2019
October 21, 2019
Testimony by Heather Boushey before the Joint Economic Committee
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October 16, 2019
Vision 2020: Evidence for a Stronger Economy
November 1, 2019 9:00AM - 4:30PM
The National Economic Association and the American Society of Hispanic Economists work to diversify and strengthen economics research
September 9, 2019
September 9, 2019
The death of the Phillips Curve is the time to lift up new economic indicators
September 4, 2019
September 4, 2019
Interactive: Comparing wages within and across demographic groups in the United States
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