Gender Equality

Centering Equity: The Employee Ownership Expansion Network and the North Carolina Employee Ownership Center

This profile of NCEOC and EOX provides an overview of ongoing efforts to build infrastructure supporting the adoption of employee ownership.

Centering Black Women in Our Economic Recovery

Racial and gender injustice has long prevented women of color from accessing quality jobs and equitable healthcare. We can fix that.

Black mom and child on playground

Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, December 2021

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

2021 Year in Review – Economic Opportunities Program

We are grateful for and proud of the conversations, ideas, and outcomes the EOP team has advanced – and optimistic about the opportunities ahead.

Photo of wooden blocks spelling out the year. The final block is in the process of flipping from 2021 to 2022.

Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, November 2021

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

Why Job Quality?

Job quality is essential to realizing the ideals of the American Dream, but today the US faces a job quality crisis: too many jobs are not quality jobs.

Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, October 2021

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, September 2021

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

For Labor to Be Genuinely Valued, We All Have Work to Do

Job quality is a choice, and we can choose to make it better.

Photo of a young woman with a face mask working in a cafe, wiping down a plastic barrier.