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Freedom’s Unfinished Work: This Independence Day, Let’s Commit To Ending Working Poverty

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.

Don’t Blame Workers for a Shortage of Good Jobs

The labor shortage myth says people don’t want to work, but the truth is more complicated.

Unemployment Isn’t Too High — Regular Wages Are Too Low

Congress needs to open its eyes to the pandemic of poverty wage work, stop abetting it, and start promoting the kind of work that makes a good life possible.