The American people need an economic agenda that will spur growth, reduce insecurity, and provide broadly shared prosperity. Drawing upon some of the best informed and most innovative experts, the Agenda for Shared Prosperity advances an economic program that is comprehensive, understandable, and workable. For more information regarding the scope of EPI's policy initiative, read the project overview and a list of topics. See what others have written about the Agenda for Shared Prosperity in the media.
A Plan To Revive the American Economy With grim economic news coming from many directions, it's easy to get discouraged about our ability to repair the damage of years of failed economic policies. And yet, there are pragmatic solutions to our biggest challenges, including ways to restore health care and retirement security, to create family-supporting jobs, and to reestablish a leadership role in the global economy. Collaborating with some of the nation's top progressive thinkers, EPI researchers have been exploring and refining solutions for the better part of two years. Now, just in time for national debates on economic direction, EPI has compiled the best of these proposals into a small, easy-to-read Policy Handbook called A Plan to Revive the American Economy.
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Sustaining workers' bargaining power in an age of globalization
Time after time, the labor-rights provisions of trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA fail the workers they were designed to protect. This new EPI Briefing Paper, Sustaining Workers' Bargaining Power in an Age of Globalization, lays out a plan to remedy this problem.
