Popular Writing - Aaron Sojourner

Roosevelt Institute, Protecting High-Risk Individuals Means Considering the Economic Cost of COVID-19 (with J. Raifman)
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KVPI NBC: All New Mexico employers must now provide paid sick leave

Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard. Fixing child care: What expanded public subsidies could mean for children, families, and teachers (with J. Borowsky, J. Brown, E. Davis, C. Gibbs, C. Herbst, A. Sojourner, E. Tekin, & M. Wiswall)

Economic Policy Institute, The Unequal Toll of COVID-19 on Workers (with J. Raifman & A. Skinner)
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The Hill TV - Rising: Labor economist urges states to pass COVID-19 paid leave policies

Roosevelt Institute, The Labor Leverage Ratio: A New Measure that Signals a Worker-Driven Recovery (with E. DiVito)

Roosevelt Institute, Employer Power and Employee Skills: Recommendations for Workforce Training Practitioners and Funders (with Suzanne Kahn)

LERA Perspectives, Increasing federal investments in early childhood care and education

Washington Post, What Happens When States Limit Nondisclosure Agreements? Employees Start to Dish (with J. Sockin and E. Starr)

Roosevelt Institute, July's Jobs Report: Strong Numbers Across the Economy But a Full Recovery Will Take Continued Support (with M. Konczal)

Brookings, Examining the uneven and hard-to-predict labor market recovery (with Lauren Bauer, Arin Dube, & Wendy Edelberg)

The Guardian, Americans are more pro-union -- and anti-big business -- than at any time in decades (with Emily DiVito)

Hamilton Project, Increasing Federal Investment in Children's Early Care and Education to Raise Quality, Access, and Affordability (with Liz Davis)
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New York Times: How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.
U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
Washington Post: How to fix the U.S. labor shortage? Provide decent child care
Fatherly: New data confirms American parents are on their own when it comes to child care
Radically Pragmatic, Progressive Policy Institute: video + podcast
Child's Path: Can investing in early childhood education beat stock market returns?
News-Register, Yamill County, Oregon: Rutledge: Short-sighted U.S. failing its children
Deseret News: Could child care help open the economy and why is its funding such a contentious topic?
Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota researchers craft proposal to improve child care access
Newsbreak: Why the U.S. Is One of the Worst Developed Countries to Raise A Child In

Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education in Minnesota (2021)

Econofact, What is at stake if unions wield greater clout? (with J. Budd & B. Frandsen)
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Econofact Explains video: Unionization

Econofact, COVID Symptom Screening at the Workplace (with Krista Ruffini and Abigail Wozniak)

Nonprofit Quarterly, Designing Workforce Programs with Worker Power in Mind (with S. Kahn & S. Naidu)

Roosevelt Institute, Employer Power and Employee Skills: Understanding Workforce Training Programs in the Context of Labor Market Power (with Suresh Naidu)
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Roosevelt Institute & Workrise webinar
Summary site at Roosevelt Institute
Nonprofit Quarterly op-ed: Designing workforce programs with worker power in mind

Casey Family Programs. Are there parallels between hiring and child protection processes that can help reduce bias and narrow child welfare’s front door?. Aug. 19, 2020.

childcareaccess.org: a resource for Minnesota's local communities to understand their families' access to child care services in terms of quantities, cost, and quality in across neighborhoods and in comparison to other communities.

Center for American Progress: The Coronavirus Will Make Child Care Deserts Worse and Exacerbate Inequality
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childcaredeserts.org: interactive map illustrating families' child care access in every U.S. community

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