What Historic Infrastructure Investments Look Like When Grassroots Organizations Take the Lead
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law promised equity, good jobs, and climate resilience. Two years later, we’re making progress.
Category: Jobs
We Have to Stop Choosing Big Banks Over Black Workers
In this latest ‘Visible’ series, we talk with Sarah Anderson at the Institute for Policy Studies about ways the federal government can prioritize Black employment over bonuses for big bank CEOs.
The Federal Reserve Must Take Black Employment Seriously Before Raising Interest Rates
In our first ‘Visible’ series, Dorian Warren and Chirag Mehta explain how raising interest rates right now only punishes Black workers for inflation caused by corporations.
Unequal Coverage of Our Economic Recovery Renders Black Workers Invisible
While many people of color are finally returning to the workforce, they are only just starting to recover, while we’re well into the white jobs recovery.
The Pandemic Cost Him Everything. But the Child Tax Credit Is Giving His Family Hope.
Phil came to the U.S. in search of opportunity, but when COVID-19 hit he lost his job, immigration status, and health care when he needed it the most. Name has…
We Need a Permanent Expanded CTC for Our Children’s Futures
Like many parents, the pandemic brought so much uncertainty into my family’s life. As a wife and mother of two young children, there was no amount of planning that could…
Because…
I vote because my life depends on it, literally and figuratively. As a Black, queer, low-income mother, another four years of what we’ve had feels like I’m signing over my own death certificate.
Voices of Everyday Leaders
Digital Organizing In The Time of COVID In the age of social-distancing, many of our everyday leaders have shifted how they operate. From educators offering instruction from a virtual classroom…
We need policies that harness the vital roles of community colleges
Our world has an increasing reliance on new, ever-changing technology that requires workers to have near-constant flexibility to upgrade, retrain, and retool their skills. It’s estimated that millions of ‘middle-skill…
Voices of Everyday Leaders
Look What Florida is Doing to Procure Job Security for Women and People of Color In older generations, it was common to keep the same job for 10, 20 or…