Quality Employment

Giving Compass’ Take: • In this video, Kathryn Edwards, associate economist with the RAND Corporation, outlines how coronavirus is affecting employment and economic development in the United States, suggesting that unemployment…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Zach Boren writes about the necessity for new United States policy to sustain apprenticeships through the pandemic and its ensuing economic fallout. • With so many…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Authors at The Conversation offer their take on the wide-ranging impacts of COVID-19 on service workers, both during the pandemic and after. • How has the…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Researchers found that approximately 34 percent of jobs across the United States can be performed at home during COVID-19.  • The data indicates that specific cities…

More than half a million people in the U.S. experience homelessness on any given night: a humanitarian crisis in this country that demands our attention. But while many nonprofits, foundations…

Giving Compass’ Take: • As we are unsure about how long COVID-19 will last or the long-term impact on the economy, it necessary for policymakers to start planning a subsidized…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Michael Haedicke, writing for The Conversation, explains how COVID-19 affects seasonal farmworkers who are at higher risk for contracting and spreading the infection, and how that will…

Giving Compass’ Take: • At Brookings, Adie Tomer and Joseph Kane outline the importance of protecting essential workers, such as those in grocery stores or health care facilities, from financial…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Research shows that despite the movement for gender equality growing in the 70s and 80s, the effort has slowed down significantly since the 90s.  • How…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Mackie Jimbo explains that as restaurants reduce or eliminate food service during the COVID-19 pandemic, the undocumented workers they employ, or used to employ, lack social support.…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Jay Singh, a long-haul produce trucker, shares his story of how coronavirus impacts his work and affects food supply chains.  • What are potential solutions to…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Liz Hipple shares the ways in which the 2008 recession impacted workers in the long term and why we are likely to see the same pattern in…