April 25, 2014
The following reports on labor market policy were recently released:
Urban Institute:
Impact of the Great Recession and Beyond: Disparities in Wealth Building by Generation and Race
Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe, C. Eugene Steuerle, and Sisi Zhang
Center for Economic and Policy Research:
Expanding Family and Medical Leave to Small Firms
Helene Jorgensen and Eileen Appelbaum
Center for American Progress:
Economic Snapshot: April 2014
Christian E. Weller
The Benefits of Increasing the Minimum Wage for People of Color
Vanessa Cárdenas
Demos:
Fast Food Failure: How CEO-to-Worker Pay Disparity Undermines the Industry and the Overall Economy
Catherine Ruetschlin
How State Banks Can Reduce Student Debt
Jared Gardner
Economic Policy Institute:
The Top 1 Percent’s Share of Income from Wealth Has Been Rising for Decades
Josh Bivens
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation and by Race and Ethnicity, 2013
Ariane Hegewisch and Stephanie Keller Hudiburg
