Paid sick leave helps workers recover from illness and manage care obligations and protects public health. Yet access to paid…
Against the backdrop of dramatic changes in work and family life, this article draws on survey data from 2,971 mothers…
In January 2022, the California State Assembly voted in support of a first-of its-kind labor bill, known as the Fast…
A survey of gig workers in the spring of 2020 revealed that their jobs provided poor working conditions, even relative…
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the important role that frontline retail, grocery, food service, and delivery workers play…
In this brief, we report wage distributions for hourly workers at 66 large service-sector firms, using unique survey data collected…
We show that tax refunds are a substantial source of income for service sector workers, the equivalent of up to…
High-cost financial services allow economically insecure families to make ends meet but often contribute to additional financial strain in the…
This research brief is part of a series designed to advance our understanding of working conditions in the service sector—in…
Unstable and unpredictable work schedules continue to be the norm for service sector workers – especially for workers of color,…
Using the most recent shift data, this brief explores how vaccination among service sector workers has changed since the Spring.
The authors develop a model of cumulative disadvantage relating three axes of disadvantage for hourly workers in the US retail…