Popular Writing - Aaron Sojourner

Econofact, Is Black Employment Catching Up with White Employment? (with V. Wilson)

Chair, Employment and Work Arrangements Content Panel advising the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics regarding the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 2026, Report (with S. Houseman, C. Muller, L. Cameron, M. Handel, E. Kelly, J. Kemp, K. Kosanovich, D. Kreisman, A. Mas, A. Mueller, D. Pedulla, C. Robertson, W. Rodgers, D. Schneider, J. Smith)

Brookings Institution. The CHIPS and Science Act is a change for business and local leaders to collaborate on a stronger child care system (with T. Bartik & K. Bolter)

RAPID. Young children, families, and our economy gain when we invest in early childhood

Duluth News Tribune, Solve Shortage of Investments in Youngest Minnesotans

Minnesota Reformer. Franchise owners are colluding to suppress Minnesota workers’ wages: The Legislature can put a stop to it (with E. Starr)

Upjohn Institute, Child Care for CHIPS: Will tying semiconductor incentives to child care help build the system we need? (with Tim Bartik and Kathleen Bolter).

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)
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Upjohn Institute: Interactive LLR site
The Indicator: Who's the boss in today's labor market?
Investopedia: Do you still have leverage in the job market? Depends on your industry
State of Oregon Library: Oregon's Labor Leverage Ratio Shows a Slightly Looser Labor Market
Civic Skunkworks: Trickle Down's Lost Decade
Star Tribune: 3M laying off 1,100 at Maplewood headquarters
Axios: Workers still have all the power

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)
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UnionTrack: America Is a Pro-Union Nation Again, Support Continues to Rise

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
Star Tribune: Gov. Tim Walz wants to end child poverty in Minnesota. What would it take?
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

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Roosevelt Institute: Banning Noncompetes: A Groundbreaking Step for Worker Power, and What Must Come Next

Goldsmith-Pinkham, P., E. Pancotti, & A. Sojourner. Predicting Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims Using Google Trends
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Economic Policy Institute:Coronavirus job losses for the last two weeks could match two years of Great Recession's job losses
Economic Policy Institute: The coronavirus crisis led to a record-breaking spike in weekly uninsurance claims

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Mpls Fed For All: Crisis response: Institute economists address the pandemic
Politico Morning Money: Here comes another bad jobless claims number
Politico Morning Money: Brace for another grim (but maybe not as grim) jobless claim number
Axios: U.S. likely lost more jobs in 4 weeks than it gained in 11 years
The Fiscal Times: The worst recession since the Great Depression
Politico Morning Money: Brace for more terrible job losses
Washington Post: Over 10 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits in March as economy collapsed
- Weather Channel: Another 6.6 Million Americans Are Out of Work
New York Times: Jobless claims hit 3.3 million in the last report. This week's will probably be worse.
New York Times: Coronavirus spreads amid supply shortages, stay-at-home orders, nd sobering economics
Washington Post: The Finance 202
Vox: Coronavirus could lead to the highest unemployment levels since the Great Depression
Politico Morning Money: Laying out the coronavirus scenarios for the economy
Politico Morning Money: How do we get out?
Vox: 9 charts showing what the coronvirus is doing to the economy
Minnesota Public Radio: Minnesota's head of employment answers your unemployment questions
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank's Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute: Crisis Response: Institute's economists address the pandemic
Forbes: Ahead of Thursday's jobless claims, the devil is in the revisions
Politico: 'Just damage containment': cost of coronavirus containment keeps rising
New York Times: More than 3 million Americans lost their jobs last week. See your state.
Politico Morning Money: How high will claims go?
Salon: More workers filed for unemployment last week than any other in U.S. history
The Fiscal Times: 10 million jobs lost, and millions more to come
Yale Insights: Making sense of a record-breaking wave of unemployment claims
Courthouse News: As economy shifts, length of lockdown will dictate speed of recovery
The Guardian: When it comes to unemployment in Australia, definitions have been broken
Common Dreams: "This chart, Holy Sh*t": Analysis shows more workers filed for unemployment last week than any other in U.S. history
- Also: Wall Street Window

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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