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Personal Income is now declining year-over-year, a possible warning sign for the economy

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What Work Does Generative AI Do? (opens in a new tab)

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Since August 2024, our Real-Time Population Survey (RPS), a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults ages 18 to 64, has tracked how many Americans use generative artificial intelligence (AI). The adoption…

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What Work Does Generative AI Do? (opens in a new tab)

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We measure how workers use genAI for their jobs in a nationally representative survey linking genAI adoption to detailed occupations and tasks. Our data provide the first task-level genAI adoption…

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What happens to U.S. workers without access to Unemployment Insurance amid economic downturns or disruptions related to AI? (opens in a new tab)

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The adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace has led to predictions of U.S. labor market disruptions. In response, policymakers have increased attention on the fitness of the nation’s social…

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Economic research shows immigration is good for U.S. workers, the economy, and affordability (opens in a new tab)

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When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, mass deportations and immigration restrictions were renewed as one of the political priorities of his second administration. Since then,…

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U.S. regions with more unauthorized immigrant workers experienced declines in new housing construction (opens in a new tab)

A large-scale deportation would shrink the U.S. economy, with particular harm to some states (opens in a new tab)

Transfer income has fallen faster than other components of U.S. income over the past 3 months (opens in a new tab)

Income declines over the past 3 months and the past 6 months are higher for low-income U.S. households (opens in a new tab)

Personal Income is now declining year-over-year, a possible warning sign for the economy (opens in a new tab)

Union coverage and auto employment were worse in Michigan than the broader U.S. amid the recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-2009 (opens in a new tab)

Union workers enjoy higher pay compared to nonunion workers (opens in a new tab)

Union coverage has declined across occupations in the past decade (opens in a new tab)

Certain AMS contract provisions give workers a sense of influence over how technology is used in their workplaces (opens in a new tab)

Certain AMS contract provisions give workers a better understanding of how technology is used in their workplaces (opens in a new tab)

Union members who know more about automated management and surveillance in their workplace also report more input over how it is used (opens in a new tab)

Slightly more workers agree than disagree that they have input over AMS tools used in their workplaces (opens in a new tab)

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What Work Does Generative AI Do? (opens in a new tab)

What Work Does Generative AI Do? (opens in a new tab)

What happens to U.S. workers without access to Unemployment Insurance amid economic downturns or disruptions related to AI? (opens in a new tab)

Economic research shows immigration is good for U.S. workers, the economy, and affordability (opens in a new tab)

U.S. regions with more unauthorized immigrant workers experienced declines in new housing construction (opens in a new tab)

A large-scale deportation would shrink the U.S. economy, with particular harm to some states (opens in a new tab)

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