Webinar: How to strengthen U.S. labor standards enforcement to protect workers’ rights
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The COVID-19 pandemic that led to record unemployment also devastated state and local government revenues across the country. With governments still facing extraordinary budget deficits, this fiscal crisis makes it even more difficult for state and local labor enforcement agencies to respond to labo…
Webinar: Transforming U.S. supply chains to create good jobs
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One reason U.S. workers’ wages are stagnating is that large firms shifted from doing many activities in-house to buying goods and services from a complex web of other companies. Sometimes this restructuring can lead to innovation if supplier firms specialize in producing complex technologies or proc…
Research on Tap: Investing in an equitable future
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Research shows that the Great Recession prolonged long-term scarring for many workers and their families, in part because U.S. policymakers failed to see an economic recovery through to its conclusion. In the decade following the Great Recession, wages stagnated and working and middle-class families…
A future for all workers: Technology and worker power
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Technology has always been an integral part of the tools people use at their jobs and to create solidarity and exercise their voices at work. Change is inevitable, but the form it takes is not. At issue are how workplaces implement new technologies and the impact these technologies have on workers’…
Ideas to Boost Wages in the New Economy: Ten Essays on Raising Wages for U.S. Workers
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth held a launch event for our book of essays on how to boost U.S. wages in the new economy on January 14, 2021, from 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. EST. The book, Boosting Wages for U.S. Workers in the New Economy, features 10 essays by leading scholars on policies to ra…
Restoring Competition in the United States: A Vision of Antitrust Enforcement for the Next Decade
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth held a virtual conference on November 19 to discuss the release of Equitable Growth’s antitrust transition report. An emerging bipartisan consensus warns that antitrust enforcement has failed to protect the competitiveness of the U.S. economy, as underscore…
Webinar: Fighting the coronavirus recession and the path forward
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a virtual lecture on Wednesday, May 13 led by Claudia Sahm, director of macroeconomic policy at Equitable Growth, who discussed promising research ideas that support a robust response to fight the coronavirus recession, as well as longer-term efforts…