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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth.

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Too many workers have been left behind as the benefits of growth increasingly accrue to those at the top of the income and wealth distribution. Equitable Growth supports research to improve our understanding of what is driving these trends, who is affected, and what policies can boost wages for all workers, provide for safe and equitable workplaces, develop pathways for upward mobility, and encourage stronger economic growth and stability.

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Strong unions push firms to reduce riskier debt, lowering risks of unemployment for U.S. workers

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Industrial policies will be more effective at supporting good jobs and a stronger U.S. economy where there is institutional support for worker power

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Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to strengthen unions and increase worker power in the United States

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In Conversation with Lenore Palladino

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A primer on monopsony power: Its causes, consequences, and implications for U.S. workers and economic growth

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TOPICS: Monopsony
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Paid sick time and paid family and medical leave support workers in different ways and are both good for the broader U.S. economy

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TOPICS: Health, Paid Leave

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Ahead of new U.S. jobs data releases, here’s what employment growth and job switching mean for wage disparities in the U.S. labor market

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Equitable Growth delivers letter responding to the NTIA’s Privacy, Equity, and Civil Rights Request for Comment

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Access to paid family leave improves U.S. women’s labor market outcomes following a spouse’s health shock

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TOPICS: Gender, Paid Leave
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The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks

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TOPICS: Gender, Paid Leave
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Fair competition in the U.S. labor market is threatened by more than the noncompete clauses targeted by new Federal Trade Commission rule

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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New Evidence on Employee Noncompete, No Poach, and No Hire Agreements in the Franchise Sector

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to strengthen U.S. income support programs and support research about them

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: January 2023 Report Edition

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JOLTS Day Graphs: December 2022 Edition

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What is social infrastructure, and how does it support economic growth in the United States?

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Automated and algorithmic management is already here, invisibly shaping job quality for U.S. workers

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: December 2022 Report Edition

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Experts on the issue

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Samir Sonti

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

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David S. Pedulla

Harvard University

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Martha Bailey

University of California, Los Angeles

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Jeffrey Thompson

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

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Former Steering Committee

Janet L. Yellen

U.S. Department of the Treasury

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