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Community Change: Economic Narratives & Ideas Project

Community Change’s Economic Narratives & Ideas Project, together with Lake Research Partners, has released new findings from quantitative and qualitative research on economic messaging. To access the key takeaways and recommendations — see the findings presentation and briefing. Learn more

Broke: How the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sectors are Talking about Poverty and How We Can Do Better

BROKE, a project between RadComms and the Center for Public Interest Communications,  reveals the harmful narratives keeping in place the outcomes of capitalism and offers new narratives grounded in liberation and respect as well as a vision for a world where everyone’s needs are met. Learn more about the project and check out the new […]

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  

Ai-jen Poo: The work that makes all other work possible

Domestic workers are entrusted with the most precious aspects of people’s lives — they’re the nannies, the elder-care workers and the house cleaners who do the work that makes all other work possible. Too often, they’re invisible, taken for granted or dismissed as “help,” yet they continue to do their wholehearted best for the families […]

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

Darrick Hamilton, Rebecca Dixon, Rachel Isacoff: Unconditional Cash and Good Working Conditions – Do we have to choose?

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is considered one of the most effective programs for reducing child poverty and promoting economic stability among low-wage families. But there is a suite of benefits that is needed to support workers in their daily lives, like paid leave and minimum wage, that rely on a progressive tax system. […]

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