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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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How union contracts are protecting U.S. workers from automated management and surveillance in the workplace

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Lessons from past trade adjustment policies to support displaced workers in the era of artificial intelligence

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Expanding eligibility for Unemployment Insurance helps low-income U.S. workers find better jobs

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

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

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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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What’s the right minimum wage? Reframing the debate from ‘no job loss’ to a ‘minimum living wage’

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Join Us for Our First Equitable Growth Grantee Conference (Invitation Only)

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The United State of Women: How women are reshaping the American economy

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U.S. labor market frictions and occupational licensing

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The open questions about the rise of U.S. job openings

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A look at overwork in three charts

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Seminar Series: Implications of economic inequality for women’s employment patterns (Invitation Only)

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The elusive employment effect of the minimum wage

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In Conversation

Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with Claudia Goldin

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What happened to America’s dynamism?

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The new overtime rule is “good economics and good business”

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Overworked America

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Experts on the issue

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Joanna Venator

Boston College

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John Schmitt

Economic Policy Institute

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Johannes Schmieder

Boston University

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Sydnee Caldwell

University of California, Berkeley

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Kanika Arora

University of Iowa

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