RESOURCES
December 9, 2020
How Much Emergency Relief Will it Take to Revive the US Economy?
Dr. Adam S. Hersh and Dr. Mark Paul explain why the federal response must include bold emergency measures — including economic relief upward of $4.5 trillion in the short-term and automatic triggers — to contain the Covid-19 public health crisis and prevent long-term economic damage.
November 2, 2020
The State of the Economy Ahead of the Election
This paper finds that the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have fared the worst under the Trump Administration's trade and industrial policies.
September 28, 2020
Promises Unfulfilled: Manufacturing in the Midwest
This paper finds that the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have fared the worst under the Trump Administration's trade and industrial policies.
September 16, 2020
How Trade Policy Failed U.S. Workers — And How to Fix it
This report examines the failures of U.S. trade policy over the past several decades and then focuses on how future trade policy should be reoriented to serve the public good, not wealthy special interests.
August 7, 2020
Unemployed Workers and Benefit “Replacement Rate”: An Expanded Analysis
We investigate average unemployment insurance (UI) replacement rates across industries using estimates of wage- and non-wage compensation and find that 60 percent of unemployment insurance claimants work in industries where the average total compensation exceeds the average weekly UI benefit.
July 22, 2020
COVID-19 and The End of Laissez-Faire Globalization
This paper exposes the flaws in U.S. trade policy that have caused shortages of life-saving medical supplies like masks and ventilators needed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 15, 2020
Trade Deals Aren’t Enough: Fixing the Tax Code to Bring American Jobs Back
This paper lays out how federal tax policy encourages and incentivizes offshoring, failing workers, businesses, and the economy.
November 25, 2019
WE ARE THE ECONOMY
This report summarizes the Groundwork Collaborative's economic roundtable series.
November 7, 2019
The Costs of Being Poor: Inflation Inequality Leads to Three Million More People in Poverty
This brief examines how accounting for differential inflation impacts poverty and income inequality.
October 24, 2019
How Technology Changes the Balance of Power in the Labor Market
This brief reviews some of the ways technology tips the balance of power in the labor market in favor of corporations and away from workers.
July 29, 2019
Mosaic National Multi-Modal Survey Toplines
This survey breaks down the responses used in the Latinx and Black American Reports.
July 29, 2019
Black Americans in the Mosaic
This memo presents findings from this study as pertains to responses gathered from Black adults.
July 29, 2019
Latinx Americans in the Mosaic
This memo presents findings from this study as pertains to responses gathered from Latinx adults.
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