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Dirty Deal: How The Port Authority’s Backroom Deal with Amazon Would Harm Black and Brown Communities in Newark
Amazon’s plans to rapidly expand its global air operations got a jumpstart in August, when the Port Authority Board voted unanimously to allow Amazon to lease a massive 23-acre site at Newark Liberty...
Reforming Unemployment Insurance
Stabilizing a system in crisis and laying the foundation for equity
The Urgency and Popularity of Transforming America’s Unemployment Insurance System
A policy and polling memo from the Center for Popular Democracy and Data for Progress
Double Exposure: Retail workers nationwide hammered by the combo crisis of pandemic and private equity
Private equity has had a disastrous impact on the retail industry, driving dozens of firms into bankruptcy, shutting down tens of thousands of stores, and costing hundreds of thousands of jobs...
Walmart's Failure to Prioritize Employee and Public Health: A timeline of dangerous delays and critical missteps in Walmart’s COVID-19 response and what can be done today to save lives at Walmart
Walmart’s health and safety response to the coronavirus pandemic has been dangerously delayed and wholly inadequate.
Amazon Endangers Workers, Delivers Contagion, Reaps the Profit
As the coronavirus pandemic rapidly accelerates, workers are sounding the alarm: Amazon's health and safety measures and benefits are wholly inadequate. They are failing to keep workers,...
No Half Measures: Why It Will Take $15 to Raise Chicago
Although corporations are experiencing a profitable recovery, the jobs recovery has been grim and marked by a shift to lower wages.
Workers Rising - The Report
Something unique has happened in New York: a wave of low-wage worker activity. As is clear from this report, New York City is at a critical turning point: will the City be one where all working...
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