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Connecticut Voices for Children’s Issue Briefing Book 2020-2022

Connecticut Voices for Children released their Issue Briefing Book 2020-2022.  Versions of this document have been developed throughout the 25 years of the organization’s history. As the state experiences the convergence of a health crisis, an economic recession due to that crisis, and a contentious and long-overdue conversation on race, the “Book” has been refreshed given […]

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We Must Keep our Promises to the Low-Wage Workers who Keep Maryland Communities Going

The coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on Maryland communities’ deep reliance on the workers who keep families fed, care for aging adults, and maintain sanitary public spaces. Yet these same workers too often take home wages that cannot support a family, let alone compensate for the daily risks their jobs require. As policymakers respond […]

Black Lives Matter & Anti-Racist Resources

  • June 1, 2020

Statement from EARN and EPI All of us at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) are angered and deeply saddened by the police murder of George Floyd, and so many other senseless deaths in the Black community—incidents rooted in a long history of anti-Blackness in our nation. This is a horrible moment for our nation—and a […]

COVID-19 responses

  • March 23, 2020
  • EARN Staff

EARN Groups across the country are assembling policy resources, guidance, and recommendations to help their state address the crisis. Read those materials here.

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COVID-19 responses

  • March 23, 2020
  • EARN Staff

Black Workers Matter: How the District’s History of Exploitation & Discrimination Continues to Harm Black Workers

The State of Working West Virginia 2019: The State of WV’s Immigrants

The State of Working Vermont 2019