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As AI changes how we work, policymakers can help connect workers with skills and employment, enhance job quality, protect workers’ financial security, and ensure that innovation benefits workers and drives inclusive economic growth.

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Easing the affordability crisis and increasing economic security requires policies that both reduce costs and boost workers’ earnings.

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The Urban Institute, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison are working together to rigorously assess how Dobbs has affected the broader reproductive health access and experiences, health outcomes, and social and economic well-being of women and other people who can get pregnant—especially for those from marginalized communities, who are likely disproportionately affected.

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The share of young adults living with their parents has increased across all metropolitan areas and all income groups, with the highest increases in more unaffordable markets for those with low incomes.

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New data show that people who bet on sports online or in person primarily do so to win money and have fun. Yet some report negative financial consequences, especially those who bet online.

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AI and the Future of the American Workforce

This commission … [will] map a range of plausible futures.
If all we do is let AI create America’s first trillionaires, … we have not succeeded.
America will be better served if we take an evidence-based approach to developing AI policy.
Work brings more to people’s lives than just income.
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What types of communities do nonprofit organizations serve? How much of a nonprofit’s funding comes from individual donations versus foundations or government? Who leads and works at nonprofits?

These are the types of questions the Nonprofit Trends Tracker can answer.

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Comprehensive data on the number of people eligible for major US safety net programs, how many of those eligible receive the benefits, and the extent to which receiving those benefits reduces poverty.

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