Labor, Family & Economic Security

Highlighting how labor, family and social welfare policies interact to shape gender equality and equity across class and race.

Want Gender Egalitarian Workplaces? Worker Co-ops can Help

Worker co-ops radically re-envision the typical organization of labor and profit. They can also promote gender equity in the workplace.

Caregiving Through a Disability Justice Lens

From income caps to inaccessible transit, ableism is built into our caregiving systems. It’s time to reform caregiving through a disability justice lens.

Trump attends meeting on human trafficking

Health, Human Rights, Development & Security, Labor, Family & Economic Security, Violence

Preventing Human Trafficking

US federal policy has over-emphasized prosecuting, and not preventing, human trafficking. It’s time for a public health approach to trafficking.

Criminal Legal System, Human Rights, Development & Security, Labor, Family & Economic Security, Violence

What’s Wrong with the US Federal Response to “Sex Trafficking”?

The federal response to sex trafficking has overemphasized prosecution. To fix what is wrong, we need to divest from the carceral system and invest in human rights.

Criminal Legal System, Labor, Family & Economic Security, Violence

How to End Violence Against Sex Workers

December 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. To end violence against sex workers, we must decriminalize sex work.

Woman with disability working in supermarket

Labor, Family & Economic Security

Disability and Economic Precarity

Women with disabilities are more likely to live in poverty. How can policymakers break the link between disability and economic precarity?

Image of Morris, MN American Indian Boarding School

Labor, Family & Economic Security, Uncategorized

The Future of the Indian Child Welfare Act

The Indian Child Welfare Act protects the rights of American Indian parents. The Supreme Court will soon decide the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Health, Labor, Family & Economic Security, Uncategorized

Driving Toward Labor and Disability Justice

Passenger driving is often exploited labor. Recent coalitions between professional drivers and disability justice advocates suggest how workers and consumers can organize together.

Criminal Legal System, Labor, Family & Economic Security

The Harm of Anti-Prostitution Loitering Laws

Anti-prostitution loitering laws target poor women of color. Repealing these laws is a first step toward reducing harm and ending a racist, sexist, and transphobic system of sexual policing.

Education, Labor, Family & Economic Security

Responding to institutional neglect, Black women are more likely to provide financial assistance to family members than other groups. What can federal policymakers do to address the Black Tax—a racial and gender wealth gap?

Immigration & Refugees, Labor, Family & Economic Security, Uncategorized

The Value of Home Healthcare

We’re facing a national labor shortage of home healthcare aides, who tend to the basic needs of millions of Americans. To meet this crisis, we must transform labor conditions in the home healthcare industry

Health, Labor, Family & Economic Security

Period Poverty in the United States: What the Law Should Do

For too many low-income people, menstrual products are inaccessible and unaffordable. Federal and state government should take action to solve period poverty.

Built & Natural Environment, Human Rights, Development & Security, Labor, Family & Economic Security

Gender Equity and Carbon Emissions: The Role of Female Managers

The fight against climate change demands gender equitable responses. New research finds that female managers contribute to reductions in corporate carbon emissions

Teacher with long hair, a blue sweater, and black mask writing at her desk in an elementary school classroom.

Education, Labor, Family & Economic Security

Schools Are Critical to a Gender-Equitable Recovery

The pandemic has forced us to confront, simultaneously, expectations of women as workers and caretakers.

Smart city and communication network concept

Labor, Family & Economic Security

Can Gender Equality Spur Tech Growth?

Policymakers can target gender inequality to set the conditions for local economic growth.

Rose Brewer

University of Minnesota, African American and African Studies

William Jones

University of Minnesota, History

Colleen Manchester

University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

Carrie Oelberger

University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Labor, Family & Economic Security

Want Gender Egalitarian Workplaces? Worker Co-ops can Help

Caregiving Through a Disability Justice Lens

Preventing Human Trafficking

What’s Wrong with the US Federal Response to “Sex Trafficking”?

How to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Disability and Economic Precarity

The Future of the Indian Child Welfare Act

Driving Toward Labor and Disability Justice

The Harm of Anti-Prostitution Loitering Laws

Black Women and the Black Tax

The Value of Home Healthcare

Period Poverty in the United States: What the Law Should Do

Gender Equity and Carbon Emissions: The Role of Female Managers

Schools Are Critical to a Gender-Equitable Recovery

Can Gender Equality Spur Tech Growth?