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The Bargaining Power of Older Workers and the US Labor Market
IRLE Director's Room 2521 Channing Way, BerkeleyWorkers over age 55 are projected to fill more than half of the 11.4 million net new jobs created between 2016 and 2026. Despite their numbers, older workers’ bargaining power in the labor market has been declining, threatening to suppress wages and working conditions for all workers. Ghilarducci, a nationally-recognized expert in retirement security, will
Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It
IRLE Director's Room 2521 Channing Way, BerkeleyDo we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed interference with market forces that it would stifle economic growth. Heather Boushey insists that rising inequality actually undermines growth in three ways. It obstructs the supply of talent, ideas, and capital as wealthy families monopolize the
Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Fiscal and Human Cost of Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles
IRLE Director's Room 2521 Channing Way, BerkeleyLos Angeles County operates the largest jail system in the United States, which incarcerates more people than any other nation on Earth. At a cost of nearly $1 billion annually, more than 20,000 people are caged every night in L.A.’s county jails and city lockups. But not every neighborhood is equally impacted by L.A.’s massive