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Key Takeaways Factors including declining job quality, immigration, and financialization of the economy have had an impact on people’s support for populist political candidates.Potential remedies include labor and tenant organizing, place-based investments, and learning from previous efforts to support displaced workers.To strengthen support for democracy and ensure a dynamic economy in which workers and families […]

Key takeaways Climate policy uncertainty is stagflationary, behaving like a supply shock. When climate policy uncertainty rises, output, investment, and employment fall, and prices rise.Climate policy uncertainty also shapes firm-level behavior, with firms postponing investment, scaling back production plans, and reducing R&D expenditures in times of greater uncertainty, suggesting firms view climate policy uncertainty as

Evidence from a new national survey and implications for policymakers and union leaders Key takeaways A new survey of unionized U.S. workers surfaces important findings about union members’ experiences with provisions related to automated management and surveillance tools in their collective bargaining agreements.About 38 percent of union members reported that their union’s contract included at

Key takeaways Anticipating that trade and globalization could displace workers, lawmakers and experts established Trade Adjustment Assistance more than 60 years ago in an effort to address that potential harm. Yet the program did not live up to its intentions, failing to reach many of the workers it was designed to assist—with significant economic and

Key Takeaways: Millions of U.S. families must comply with asset limits set at the state and federal level to participate in essential public benefit programs, from health care to nutrition assistance, in times of need.Research suggests that asset limits can discourage households from accumulating sufficient emergency savings, resulting in increased economic instability and higher demand

Key takeaways Over the course of U.S. history, policymakers have imposed tariffs on imported goods numerous times. A new study examines how these trade policy choices have impacted the U.S. economy, finding that tariffs tend to shrink the economy, depress manufacturing activity and wages, increase prices, and suppress exports.Monetary policies have played a key role

Overview President Donald Trump will soon give his annual State of the Union speech before Congress, one year into his second term in the White House. Ahead of his remarks, now is a natural moment to take stock of the U.S. economy over the past year, looking at various metrics of economic well-being and how

An intimate but meaningful dinner in Toledo celebrated the work carried out over the past years by Italy’s Consul in Detroit, Allegra Baistrocchi, who is nearing the end of her mandate. The event was organized as a tribute by the partners with whom the Consulate has built projects, institutional relations, and economic initiatives that have