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Research
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Power is at the Root
How Funders and Workforce Leaders Can Center Workers in the “Future of Work”
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Delivering Insecurity
E-commerce and the Future of Work in Food Retail
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Serving Silicon Valley
Tech Giants and their Service Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Change and Uncertainty, Not Apocalypse
Technological Change and Store-Based Retail
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The Eviction Time-Bomb
How COVID-19 & corporate greed could devastate Latinx and Black renters and kick 40,000 families out of their homes
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Technological Change in Health Care Delivery
Its Drivers and Consequences for Work and Workers
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Understanding & Responding to the Changing Nature of Work in the Bay Area
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The Future of Warehouse Work
Technological Change in the U.S. Logistics Industry
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The Google Rent Hike
What Google’s San Jose mega-campus could cost renting families — and what Google can do about it
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Innovating Inequality?
How tech’s business models concentrate wealth while shortchanging workers
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Driverless?
Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker
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When Renters Rise, Our City Thrives
Factsheet on renting families and our housing crisis
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Construction in San Jose: Crisis & Opportunity
Growing Our Local Middle-Class Construction Workforce
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Soaring Rents, Falling Wages
The growing gap between rents and incomes in San Jose
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Building Opportunity
Investing in local and disadvantaged residents with Community Workforce Agreements
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Cashing In on Renters
Wealthy corporations and absentee landlords reap millions in profits from rising rents
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Back in the Black
A fiscal strategy for investing in San Jose's future
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A Hidden Crisis
Underemployment in Silicon Valley's hourly workforce
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Tech's Invisible Workforce
A Closer Look at the 'Invisible' Subcontracting Trend in Silicon Valley
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Investing In Our Future
The Transportation Priorities of Silicon Valley’s Diverse Communities
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Setting Job Standards for a New Economy
An Innovative Living Wage for Silicon Valley
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Economic Prosperity Strategy
Improving economic opportunity for the Bay Area’s low- and moderate-wage workers
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Temporary Work, Permanent Injuries
Realities in the Food Processing Industry and a Call to Action
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Tech's Diversity Problem
More Than Meets the Eye
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Access to Paid Sick Days in San Jose
A briefing paper from the Institute for Women's Policy Research
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Older reports & policy briefs
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Becoming Our Children's Champions
Training Parents, Improving Children's Outcomes
June 2013
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Mobilizing the Emerging Majority, Lead the Vote 2012
The Impact of Voter Outreach for Young, Latino, and Vietnamese Voters in Santa Clara County
January 2013
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Life in the Valley Economy 2012
Saving the Middle Class: Lessons from Silicon Valley
October 2012
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Mo(vement) Town
Building Civic Engagement in the Detroit Region
January 2012
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Life in the Valley Economy 2010
Silicon Valley Progress Report
June 2010
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Life in the Valley Economy 2008
Silicon Valley Progress Report
August 2008
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Life in the Valley Economy: Labor Day 2007
August 2007
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Life in the Valley Economy 2007
Silicon Valley Progress Report
March 2007
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A Historical Analysis of Tax and Fiscal Propositions in California, 1978-2004
May 2006
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Declining Job-Based Health Coverage in the United States and California
A Crisis for Working Families
January 2006
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Squeezing the Middle Class
August 2005
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Kids at Risk
Declining Employer-Based Health Coverage in California and the United States: A Crisis for Families
August 2005
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Falling Apart
Declining Job-Based Health Coverage for Working Families in California and the United States
August 2005
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Temporary Hourly Employees at the City of Palo Alto
Recommendations for reforming Palo Alto’s temporary employment practices
October 2004
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Building A Healthy Coyote Valley
A Proposal for Community Health Clinics
September 2004
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The Economic Effects of Immigration in Santa Clara County and California
September 2004
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Jobs with a Future: Successful High-Road Partnerships in the Child Care Industry
July 2004
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Jobs with a Future: Regional Growth Strategies and Strong Career Ladders for the Hospitality Industry
July 2004
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Jobs with a Future: Designing Health Care Career Ladders that Work
July 2004
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The Cardea Project
Understanding the Recession's Effect on Women
June 2004
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Shared Prosperity and Inclusion
The Future of Economic Development Strategies in Silicon Valley
August 2003
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The Children's Health Initiative Workbook
July 2003
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Temporary Employment in Stanford and Silicon Valley
June 2003
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Everyone's Valley
Inclusion and Affordable Housing in Silicon Valley
June 2001
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A Living Wage for Santa Cruz and Watsonville
March 2000
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Walking the Lifelong Tightrope
Negotiating Work in the New Economy
May 1999
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Living Wage
An Opportunity for San Jose
August 1998
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Growing Together or Drifting Apart?
Working Families and Business in the New Economy
January 1998
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Shock Absorbers in the Flexible Economy
The Rise of Contingent Employment in Silicon Valley
May 1996