Publications

This new Policy Memo proposes several options to improve the quality and integrity of the data reported to Recovery.gov by federal contractors receiving Recovery Act funding.

A multitude of evidence makes clear that GDP's third quarter growth can be traced to the Recovery Act, and that the long-term health of the economy is going to depend on pushing forward--not pulling back--with even more stimulus measures.

A new EPI report shows that employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) has declined every year since 2000, currently leaving 45.7 million people under 65 without any coverage and estimates suggest another 10 million people will be without ESI by 2010 unless the economy makes an unpredicted swift rebound or there is large-scale health reform.

This review of the current evidence finds that there is still a need to better understand how schools can support and enhance the work of the teachers who staff them.

Deficit spending, when directed toward positive investments such as infrastructure and high-quality education, can generate important returns for future generations.

Retirement USA is committed to working toward a new retirement system that, along with Social Security, will provide a universal, secure, and adequate income for future retirees. Read its October Conference report, Toward a universal, secure, and adequate retirement system, by EPI's Monique Morrissey.

In response to the unemployment crisis, EPI has proposed a tax credit that could create millions of jobs over the next two years, at a relatively low cost.

EPI Policy Memorandum #151

EPI Briefing Paper #248

Richard Rothstein examines recent statements by the Secretary of Education in regards to the future of No Child Left Behind.

Time after time, the labor-rights provisions of trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA fail the workers they were designed to protect.  EPI's new Briefing Paper, Sustaining Workers' Bargaining Power in an Age of Globalization, released as part of its Agenda for Shared Prosperity, lays out a plan to remedy this problem.

There are now 6.3 job seekers per job opening, according to new government data.

Research shows that creating more "green jobs" would have a significant benefit on male African American workers whose unemployment rate is well above the overall nationwide rate. Algernon Austin, director of EPI's Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy, presented some of these findings Sept. 25 at the annual legislative conference of the Congressional Black Caucus.