Data Equity for Deaf Communities: Rethinking Accessibility, Outreach, & Data Collection in Federal Statistical Programs

This fact sheet highlights several key data concerns and offers recommendations to improve engagement with Deaf and hard-of-hearing people and collect complete and accurate data.

Advancing Data Equity for U.S. Territories

This brief analyzes the implications of inadequate data collection in the U.S. territories and recommends steps federal policymakers can take to improve the timeliness and accuracy of data and understand the social, environmental, and economic challenges residents of U.S. territories face.

Can Public Benefits Protect Workers & Families from the Harms of Corporate Market Power?

This working paper examines some of the relationships between corporate market power and public benefits and spotlights opportunities for further exploration of this emerging area of research.

Advancing American Indian & Alaska Native Data Equity: Representation in Federal Data Collections

This report explores the history of AI/AN data in federal data collections, describes some nuances of working with AI/AN population data, and highlights the undercounting and underrepresentation of AI/AN populations in federal data collections.

Re-Envisioning TANF: Toward an Anti-Racist Program That Meaningfully Serves Families

This report offers a vision for an anti-racist approach to the TANF program, with new statutory goals and policy recommendations to advance racial justice.

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“Joined together, poverty and racism have created a toxic mixture that mocks our democratic rhetoric of equal opportunity and equal protection under the law.” – Peter Edelman, Faculty Director

6 in 10

caregivers reported that their caregiving responsibilities had negatively impacted their employment

1 in 4

jobless workers receive unemployment insurance, even though 2/3 of households will experience unemployment