Public Policy

College of Human Ecology Professor Kelly Musick and research colleagues find that job losses caused by COVID-19 disproportionately hurt Latinx, Black and lower-income children.

In a recent interview, ILR School Associate Professor Vanessa Bohns discussed how sharing information about receiving a COVID-19 vaccine can impact other people’s choices.

Frontline workers, the most vulnerable among essential workers, are most in need of the vaccine, according to a research team including labor economist Francine Blau.

Use the School District COVID-19 Tracker as an interactive mapping tool to understand the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on New York State.

Short-time compensation is a relatively low-cost program that already exists in many states to prevent or at least slow mass unemployment. With some reforms, it could protect many more U.S. jobs.

Women, African American and Hispanic workers are faring markedly worse than men and white workers.

Erica Groshen provides insight on some of the most significant numbers in the upcoming national employment report recapping July job numbers.

This piece hosts discussions about digital currency in light of the pandemic through work by Cornell Professor Robert Hockett.

Shannon Gleeson outlines the situation faced by undocumented workers, and discusses potential futures for them including pathways to citizenship and their relationship.

The triple crises of COVID-19, climate change and soaring inequality present a moment of great peril and opportunity for the U.S.

In June, COVID-19 was still disrupting the jobs of over 24 million workers comprising about 15 percent of the labor force in February.

When tensions start to rise over school reopening details, communities can rally around anthems reminding them to negotiate in ways that will benefit children.

Russell Weaver explains the numbers behind rising unemployment claims as New York State reopens.

Recorded June 8 - Former Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Seth Harris discusses the pandemic-related public policy issues affecting workers, labor markets, and workplaces.

YTI's Ellice Switzer discusses how the pandemic has created an elevated risk for many types of essential workers.

The average annual salary from 2014 to 2018 in New York state for a white worker was $60,808 as compared to $40,707 for a black worker in New York state, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

A June 3 report will provide more accurate figures about unemployment in New York state.

Russell Weaver shows that New York State unemployment-insurance claims have reached a high while national numbers drop.

Russell Weaver helps answer the pressing question: "What is New York's unemployment rate?"

Russell Weaver asks whether we really want to "bounce back," instead of building better systems after the pandemic.

YTI's Thomas Golden discusses recent survey results that cover the impact of COVID-19 on Americans with disabilities and employment.

Russell Weaver outlines fluctuations in unemployment-insurance benefit claims in the context of national trends.

Russell Weaver explains the recent changes in national and New York State unemployment insurance claim numbers.

ILR Professor Francine Blau is the lead author of an analysis, published by “ECONOFACT,” of frontline workers and their pay.

Russell Weaver helps answer the question: What might the report of UI cmails foretell about unemployment in New York State?

Erica Groshen explains how a dose of good news in March can be found in the difference between furloughs and layoffs.

The processing capacity of state departments of labor are outpaced by an unprecedented volume of unemployment claims and call for emergency relief measures.

The national unemployment rate could go up to 20 percent in April, says ILR's Erica Groshen.

Understand changes to unemployment insurance in the first five weeks of the coronavirus crisis and beyond.

State and local government agencies need to identify flexible public funding that can provide rapid assistance to newly unemployed workers.

Exactly who is deemed an "essential worker" in New York state?

The Federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act -- here's how it works.

Learn what the CARES Act does for for working people, low-income people and gig workers.

Which New York state residents are most likely to lose their jobs? Where do they live and what do they do?

ILR Visiting Scholar Erica Groshen, who served as commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, discussed on the “Capital Pressroom” radio program how the economy has been stunned by the coronavirus.

ILR School Associate Professors Ariel Avgar and Adam Litwin are co-authors of a 2017 study that is relevant to controlling the pandemic: the relationship between labor relations and germ transmission, including “superbugs.”

In a “Gotham Gazette” opinion piece, ILR's Fred Kotler advocates for expanding the prevailing wage in New York state.

Surprise medical bills of huge proportions follow many emergency room visits. Private equity firms that increasingly control hospitals are often to blame and need to stop the practice, particularly during the pandemic, writes Professor Rose Batt.