EARN Notice: November 2023

EARN Notice
A monthly newsletter from the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN)


** EARN Notice November 2023
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Dear friends,

With Thanksgiving around the corner, EPI’s EARN team wants to share our thanks for all the work that you do in your states to build a progressive infrastructure that improves the lives of workers and their families and helps to achieve racial and gender justice. We witnessed earlier this month the powerful results of your expertise, organizing, and advocacy shaping the public debate leading up to the election in states like Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and others.

We know that it is only through your sustained efforts frequently in deep coalition with grassroots partners, organized labor, and elected leaders – often in the face of stiff resistance – that we are steadily making progress and pushing back against harmful, anti-worker policies.

We also want to thank you for your continued engagement with EARN’s team at the Economic Policy Institute and with one another: whether by attending EARNCon, joining EARN Talks, applying for EARN grants, or participating in EARN’s learning communities, the broader EARN community is stronger because of you.

And before tucking into turkey, tofu, or your preferred Thanksgiving dish, we want to share the joint National Employment Law Project (NELP) and EARN State and Local Policy Agenda ([link removed]) . We know that many of you are already preparing to drive a robust policy agenda in the 2024 state legislative sessions. We hope that this agenda can be useful as you further refine your organization’s priorities and policy demands. Key policy recommendations that you'll find in it include measures empowering workers to organize unions and bargain collectively, ways to raise wages and improve job quality, policies that promote equitable access to jobs for Black and Latinx workers, and ways for states and localities to rebuild a strong public sector workforce. Please feel free to reach out to co-authors Paul Sonn, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) at NELP or Dave Kamper, [email protected], (mailto:[email protected]) with
any questions.

We hope you also have time to check out the EARN team’s latest reports, including Dave Cooper and Sebastian Martinez Hickey’s report on bus driver shortages ([link removed]) and Nina Mast’s recent blog on states strengthening child labor standards ([link removed]) – a reflection of the work that many of you are leading and a positive development for which I am thankful to see, after witnessing so many states rolling back child labor protections.

We’ll be in touch soon. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.

Warmly,


Michael Schoettle

Deputy Director of EARN


** New EARN Network Publications
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Policy Matters Ohio, State of Ohio Schools, 2023 ([link removed])

Louisiana Budget Project. Census 2022: Poverty, Income and Health Insurance in Louisiana ([link removed])

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Montana Budget and Policy Center, Where Do the Children Play: Considerations on Cost of Care and School-Age Kids ([link removed])

Maryland Center on Economic Policy, Choosing Meaningful Investments in Temporary Cash Assistance Can Change the Trajectory for Maryland Families Living in Poverty ([link removed])

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Alabama Arise. Legislative Update: Update on Alabama’s New Congressional Map ([link removed])

Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. 2023 State of Working Georgia: Short-Lived Recovery Reflects Long-Term Barriers ([link removed])

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Florida Policy Institute. Fast Facts: HB 49 Would Undo Decades of Child Labor Protections in Florida ([link removed])

North Carolina Budget and Tax Center. North Carolina’s Poverty Rate is a Policy Choice ([link removed])


** What We're Reading
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Workers Want Unions: How States Have Strengthened Worker Power in 2023 ([link removed]) . Karla Walter and Isabel Salas-Betsch, Center for American Progress (November 1, 2023)

A boom of ballot initiatives is reshaping this state’s democracy. ([link removed]) Greg Jaffe, The Washington Post (November 15, 2023)

Voters drub Moms for Liberty ‘parental rights’ candidates at the ballot. ([link removed]) Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post (November 10, 2023)

Will the Government Rein in Amazon? ([link removed]) Interview with Lina Khan, FTC Chair. David Remnick, The New Yorker (November 13, 2023)


** Upcoming Events
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The Rise of U.S. Child Labor, and How We Can Fight Back

Webinar on Thursday, December 5, 2023

Register in advance here ([link removed]) . Registration is required.

Join us to discuss what emerging child labor trends mean for workers and the economy and how state and federal lawmakers can work to strengthen standards. Panelists will discuss why and where exploitative forms of child labor have persisted or re-emerged in the U.S., the legislative landscape at the state and national level, and proactive measures that lawmakers and labor agencies can pursue to improve protections for young people who work.
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