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…
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This month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia — a UNESCO world heritage site and museum — as a house of…
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…
June 25, 2020, Paper, "Governors and other policymakers can avoid a second wave of COVID-19 deaths, or turn it around if it starts, by re-…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
Service sector jobs in the United States are characterized by low pay, few fringe benefits, and limited employee control over scheduled…
Against the backdrop of a global health crisis, service-sector workers are newly visible. While millions of American workers have been…
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The coronavirus outbreak has had a massive impact on public health and the economy. In the United States, the 25 million workers employed…
Tipping Point Community partnered with sociologists and political scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Othering…
Staying home sick is a luxury that America’s retail and food service workers simply can’t afford, a situation that will only make the…