Service sector workers have been newly recognized as essential during the COVID-19 crisis. These frontline heroes have been essential to…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
We study the contribution of economic conditions to the success of the first avowedly nativist political party in the United States. The…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
In 2019, the Hahnemann Medical Center, a safety net hospital in Philadelphia, declared bankruptcy and a consortium of hospitals submitted a…
American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly precarious…
The Bay Area is a place of opportunity, but also a place of incredible inequality and deprivation. In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was…
The COVID-19 pandemic has made plain just how important the work of retail, grocery and food service workers is. Their jobs put them at…