December 05, 2014
The following reports on labor market policy were recently released:
Center for American Progress
Economic Snapshot: November 2014
Christian E. Weller and Jackie Odum
One Strike and You’re Out: How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People with Criminal Records
Rebecca Vallas and Sharon Dietrich
State Disinvestment in Higher Education Has Led to an Explosion of Student-Loan Debt
Elizabeth Baylor
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Boosting Disability Insurance Share of Social Security Tax Would Not Harm Retirees
Kathy A. Ruffing and Paul N. Van de Water
Policymakers Often Overstate Marginal Tax Rates for Lower-Income Workers and Gloss Over Tough Trade-Offs in Reducing Them
Sharon Parrott and Robert Greenstein
Center on Wisconsin Strategy
Preparing Students, Strengthening Communities: A Guide to Climate Resiliency & the Community College
Sarah White and Todd Cohen
CLASP
Transparency and Accountability: Implementing a Postsecondary Institution Rating System that Empowers Students While Avoiding Unintended Consequences
Tim Harmon and Anna Cielinski
Demos
Retail Politics: How America’s Big-Box Retailers Turn Their Economic Power into Political Influence
Catherine Ruetschlin and Sean McElwee
Economic Policy Institute
The Need to Address Noncognitive Skills in the Education Policy Agenda
Emma García
National Employment Law Project
Manufacturing Low Pay: Declining Wages in the Jobs that Built America’s Middle Class
Catherine Ruckelshaus and Sarah Leberstein
Criminal Records Bulletins of 2014
Political Economy Research Institute
Did the States Pocket the Obama-Stimulus Money? Lessons from Cross-Section Regression and Interviews with State Officials
Stephen A. Marglin and Peter M. Spiegler
Urban Institute
Health Insurance Coverage and Health Care Access and Affordability in Massachusetts: Holding Steady in 2013
Sharon K. Long and Thomas H. Dimmock
Marketplace Renewals: State Efforts to Maximize Enrollment into Affordable Health Plan Options
Sabrina Corlette, Jack Hoadley, and Sandy Ahn
