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  • Stolen Chances: Low-Wage Work and Wage Theft in Iowa

    Despite three years of heightened attention — from our work, from media reports, and from some policymakers — wage theft remains persistent in Iowa,” said Colin Gordon, author of a…

  • Punishing the Poorest

    Punishing the Poorest: How the Criminalization of Homelessness Perpetuates Poverty in San Francisco by the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco documents the effects of criminalization on the homeless residents.…

  • What rights do people have to a warm home?

    The Murphy Institute recently posted this interview of members of recent Sociological Initiative Foundation grantee, Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson.  It highlights their People’s Power campaign for affordable, sustainable, and just utilities…

  • A Report on Policing in New Orleans By and For Queer and Trans Youth of Color

    In collaboration with the National Council on Crime & Delinquency (NCCD), BreakOUT!, recently released a report, “We Deserve Better: A Report on Policing in New Orleans By and For Queer…

  • From Undocumented to DACAMENTED

    From Undocumented to DACAMENTED by Caitlin Patler and Jorge A. Cabrera in collaboration with Dream Team Los Angeles assesses DACA’s impacts on the educational and socioeconomic trajectories and health and…

  • Being Policed: Young People’s Stories of Encounters With the NYPD

    Researchers for Fair Policing is an intergenerational team of researchers from Make the Road New York & the Public Science Project. It collected the stories of young people’s experiences with…

  • Short Shifted:

    Trends in retail may represent the frontier of new employer practices that have major implications for workers in a range of industries, unless we take steps now to intervene in these troubling practices.…

  • A Social Profile of Brazilian Housecleaners in Massachusetts

    The Brazilian Workers Center in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts-Boston investigated the working and living conditions of Brazilian housecleaners in the major Brazilian communities of Massachusetts. The report,  A…