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Tracking National Labor Relations Board actions through its administrative data
Olivia Howard, Lauren Bauer, Celine McNicholas, and Margaret Poydock use administrative data from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to assess the number of cases the NLRB closed, the reason those cases closed, and the number of new cases filed in 2025, compared to recent years.
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Seven economic facts about prime-age labor force participation
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Proposed SNAP cuts would permanently undermine recession readiness and responsiveness
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Will the reconciliation bill’s Child Tax Credit changes leave out children in low-income working families?
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The COVID-19 public health and economic crises leave vulnerable populations exposed
Jevay Grooms, Alberto Ortega, and Joaquín Rubalcaba present new survey data revealing disparities in outcomes related to the COVID-19 pandemic across race/ethn…
Unemployment insurance extended benefits will lapse too soon without policy changes
In this blog post, researchers show that there is room for Congress to improve the triggers under current law that turn on and maintain the Unemployment Insura…
The effect of Pandemic EBT on measures of food hardship
In this blog post, Lauren Bauer, Abigail Pitts, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach find that Pandemic EBT reduced food hardship experienced by low…
Will competition be another COVID-19 casualty?
The economic crisis in the wake of the pandemic is changing the business landscape, exacerbating concerns about the state of competition in the U.S. economy. …
The nature of work after the COVID crisis: Too few low-wage jobs
David Autor and Elisabeth Reynolds ask whether the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the conventional wisdom about automation and inequality in the United States o…
The initial impact of COVID-19 on labor market outcomes across groups and the potential for permanent scarring
The economic damages of the COVID-19 pandemic are not being well captured by current labor market statistics that show both permanent damage to employment rela…
How the pandemic is changing the economy
The COVID-19 public health crisis, the economic shock triggered by the pandemic, and public policy, business, and individual responses to the pandemic together…
About 14 million children in the US are not getting enough to eat
In this piece, Lauren Bauer presents new evidence that almost 18 percent of children in the US did not have sufficient food as recently as the third week in Ju…
