Jobs

Winning Jobs Narrative Project: A Working People-Centered Narrative for Jobs, Work, and the Economy

Based on an expansive research agenda, the Winning Jobs Narrative team has developed a narrative architecture that progressive advocates and leaders can draw from to frame a broad range of issues.  Download the project materials including the research scan, narrative toolkit, and briefing presentation slide deck. Winning Jobs Narrative Project

Winning Jobs Narrative Project: Phase One Report

This report represents the completion of Phase One of the Winning Jobs Narrative Project —an expansive effort to collect and review important prior and existing opinion research focused on public attitudes around jobs and the economy, as well as existing campaigns and schools of thought about economic messaging.  Access the Report  

Dorian Warren, Erica Smiley, and Natalie Foster: Guaranteed income and worker power: The power of a permanent strike fund

Unions and a strong safety net are both necessary poles in a mutually reinforcing dynamic of growing worker power and political support for an expansive role for government that provides an economic foundation for all families and communities.   Access the Economic Security Project’s Post

Opportunity Agenda: Shifting the Narrative: Six Case Studies

  To lay the groundwork for a sustained 21st century narrative change effort promoting mobility from poverty, criminal justice reform, and opportunity for all, The Opportunity Agenda embarked on a six-part narrative research study, with the aim of identifying the essential and replicable elements of past successful efforts, gleaning the insights captured in academic literature, […]

Frameworks Institute: Public Thinking About Care Work in a Time of Social Upheaval: Findings from Year One of the Culture Change Project

  To what extent is this unprecedented pandemic shifting thinking about care work? The FrameWorks Institute is exploring this question as part of our empirical study on culture change during a time of upheaval.     Access the Report  

This is Signals, a project of REFRAME: The Rona Report, One Year On

Published in 2021, this report identifies dominant, emerging, and enduring narratives shaping the landscape at the nexus of Covid-19, workers, jobs, and the economy. Access the Report