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EPI’s Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy (PREE), in partnership with the Groundwork Collaborative and the Center for Popular Democracy, is hosting a series of workshops to cultivate constructive engagement on issues related to racial and economic justice among Washington, D.C.-based policy analysts, advocates, and researchers. At the most recent of these workshops, Patrice Kunesh, director of the Center for Indian Country Development (CICD) at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, talked about how the social and economic histories of Native communities in the U.S. relate to contemporary economic, social, and political issues affecting those communities. Participation in the workshop series is by invitation only, but recordings of the sessions will be available online. Watch past PREE workshops »
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EPI workshop series explores racial and economic justice issues
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Patrice Kunesh of the Center for Indian Country Development is also featured in the first episode of Season 2 of EPI’s State of Working America podcast. In this episode, Kunesh discusses the economic challenges Native American communities face and offers policy options to address those challenges. In the final episode of Season 1, Rhonda Sharpe, director of the Women’s Institute for Science, Equity and Race, talks about why we need to capture data in a way that makes sense of real-world social, economic, and racial trends. Listen to the podcasts »
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November 20, Latina Equal Pay Day, marked how long a Latina worker would have had to continue working into 2019 to earn the same wage a white, non-Hispanic man earned by the end of 2018—based on findings that Latina workers are paid 53% of what white men are paid. Completing a degree or gaining more experience doesn’t do much to narrow this gap: Analysis by EPI’s Elise Gould finds that even after controlling for education, experience, and location, Latina workers still receive only 66 cents on the white male dollar. Because Latina workers are over-represented in low-wage jobs, policies that lift wages at the bottom, such as an increase of the federal minimum wage to $15, would significantly impact their wages. Read the analysis »
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The Washington Post featured an opinion piece by EPI Director of Policy Heidi Shierholz, in which she stated that “poll after poll shows that the large majority of progressive policies”—including increasing the minimum wage, protecting labor rights, preserving and expanding Social Security, taxing the wealthy, and enacting paid family and medical leave—“are already deeply popular” among Americans. | On the Economy, Americans Are Already There »
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EPI News: Native communities, racial justice in the spotlight
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