Labor, Family & Economic Security

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

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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.

no loitering sign

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

Black Women and the Black Tax

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?

Home Health care worker

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

menstrual products

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.

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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.

Close up on a file tab with the word employees plus a note with the text "sick leaves"

Health, Labor, Family & Economic Security

The Anti-Discrimination Roots of “Family and Medical Leave”

The U.S. lags on paid leave. Why is the FMLA so progressive in other ways?

Young Asian father with black glasses and white t-shirt holds swaddled newborn child.

Labor, Family & Economic Security

Paid Leave Policy Design Matters for Workplace Equality

Better policies can reduce the stigma of taking paid family leave. Can they also close the gender gap?

Black father having video call with pediatrician and writing notes while taking care of his sick son at home.

Health, Labor, Family & Economic Security

While Helping American Families, Let’s Not Forget About Parents’ Well-Being

Single fathers’ experiences during the pandemic highlight the urgent need to address parental well-being.

Pensive lonely man father holding his child daughter looking with hope into distance in dark vintage style

Labor, Family & Economic Security

Can Single Fathers Advance the Stalled Gender Revolution?

To transform policy, we need to include single fathers in broader conversations about gender inequality in all its manifestations.

Image of Hispanic female nurse in blue scrubs holding her head in exhaustion with eyes closed

Health, Labor, Family & Economic Security

Seizing the Moment to Make Our Care Systems More Equitable

The right kinds of investments can address deeply rooted racial and gender inequities in the care economy.

Health, Labor, Family & Economic Security

The State of Care

Care work makes all other work possible. Is a decades-long struggle for decent wages and labor protections finally about to pay off?

Education, Labor, Family & Economic Security

A Bigger Child Tax Credit Gives Families Flexibility

Some low-income parents will work more under the new policy, some less. Kids will benefit either way.

Rose Brewer

Rose Brewer

University of Minnesota, African American and African Studies

William Jones

William Jones

University of Minnesota, History

Colleen Manchester

Colleen Manchester

University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

Carrie Oelberger

Carrie Oelberger

University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs