Amazon vote comes amid recent uptick in U.S. unionization rate
Union membership has had a somewhat unexpected – but likely temporary – turnaround amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Union membership has had a somewhat unexpected – but likely temporary – turnaround amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
About a year since the coronavirus recession began, there are some signs of improvement in the U.S. labor market, and Americans are feeling somewhat better about their personal finances than they were early in the pandemic.
24% of civilian workers in the United States, or roughly 33.6 million people, do not have access to paid sick leave.
This Congress has passed more substantive bills so far in its session than any since 2007 – though nearly a third of them were to undo Obama-era rules.
Women in STEM jobs are more likely than their male counterparts to have experienced discrimination in the workplace and to believe that discrimination is a major reason there are not more women in STEM.
While the idea of raising the minimum wage is broadly popular, efforts to do so at the national level have stalled. We gathered key facts looking at the issue.
There are deep divisions between blacks and whites in how they see racial discrimination, barriers to black progress and prospects for change.
From trust in government to views of climate change, here are some of Pew Research Center’s most memorable findings of the year.
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