Hayley Brown
Labor and Disability Researcher
Labor and Disability Researcher, IFTPE Local 70 Unit Rep
Labor and Disability Researcher
Labor and Disability Researcher, IFTPE Local 70 Unit Rep
Hayley Brown is a Labor and Disability Researcher with CEPR. Her research spans a wide range of subject matter, including labor and worker power, disability, inequality, and public health. Hayley recently served as president of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, which represents the staff at CEPR and many other nonprofits throughout the United States. She previously worked in the Research, Markets, and Regulations division of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and for the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. She studied geographical sciences and philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park .
As the White House continues to threaten to cut off millions of Americans from their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, it is important to understand that this will disproportionately impact disabled people. Adults with disabilities make up about 25 percent of SNAP recipients, nearly twice their share in the overall population.
Despite his promises, Secretary Kennedy does not intend to prioritize the well-being of Long COVID patients – he has already taken a hatchet to the limited systems of care that were already in place.
Union representation continues to be associated with wage and benefit premiums for Black workers, carrying forward the unfinished demands of the 1963 March on Washington.
By treating facts as threats, both Erdoğan and Trump have attacked the conditions that make democracy possible. Those who care about democracy must respond to Trump’s latest escalation by standing in solidarity with those he wishes to silence.
The deregulatory push at Trump’s Labor Department signals a willingness to sacrifice workers’ health and lives for the sake of corporate profit.
The anniversary of the ADA offers a chance to examine the law’s shortcomings — and compare how other countries promote and protect disabled workers.
The Medicaid cuts in Trump’s new law will hit disabled people especially hard.
The Taft-Hartley Act, passed 78 years ago, crippled union power and organizing rights — a legacy that still hinders US workers today.
The ICE raids in Los Angeles and the arrest of a prominent union leader are tests for a labor movement that must stand up for all workers against an administration so openly hostile to the working class.
A new analysis shows that union membership of foreign-born workers remains lower than that of US-born workers, but that their share of the overall union workforce has grown over the past several decades.