Research Roundup

Recent reports by the Economic Policy Institute on trends and challenges for low-wage workers, AFL-CIO on the risk and cost of fatalities and injuries on the job, the National Employment Law Center on the troubling decline in wage growth during the current recovery, Good Jobs First on the growing number of states who are subsidizing companies with the withholding taxes of their workers, the Brennan Center updating recent changes to state voting laws, the Pew Center on the States surveying the oversight or lack thereof of state tax incentives for economic development, Demos on the critical efforts underway in many states to help voters obtain photo IDs, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on how destructive cuts in services have been the primary response to state budget gaps, Kentucky Youth Advocates on how thousands of Kentucky families could benefit from an Earned Income Tax Credit, the National Immigration Law Center on state bills under consideration across the country in 2012 that affect access to education for immigrant students, and the Center on Economic and Policy Research on why the minimum wage is simply “too damn low.”

In this week’s Research Roundup, reports by: Connecticut Voices for Children on the economic effect of a minimum wage increase, Wider Opportunities for Women on the economic insecurity of older Americans, the Southern Poverty Law Center on the devastation caused by the anti-immigrant HB 56, Demos and USPIRG on the effect of the rise of Super PACs, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy on how states with ‘high’ income tax rates are outperforming no-tax states, the Kaiser Family Foundation on mapping the effects of the ACA's coverage expansions, and an analysis by the Immigration Policy Center of data from the Pew Hispanic Center on how immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy.

In this week’s Research Roundup: Reports from Demos on the need for new measures beyond GDP, Families USA on the Massachusetts health care plan vs. the Affordable Care Act, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Academy of Social Insurance on Medicaid and health exchanges under the ACA, the Corporation for Enterprise Development ranking the 50 states by the financial security of residents, and the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama on the billions of dollars the state is set to lose thanks to their anti-immigrant law.