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Innovator Profile: Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights

by Jeshua John, on March 27, 2023 at 11:16 AM
This 26 year-old, women-led nonprofit is fighting for the dignity and safety of Mississippi's low wage workers. Check out our recent interview with Founder and Executive Director Jaribu Hill.
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Innovator Profile: Leap Fund

by Jeshua John, on March 20, 2023 at 2:16 PM
This tremendous women-led nonprofit is helping workers navigate the "benefits cliff" that many have to face when deciding between earning a dollar or two more per hour and losing valuable safety net...
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What workers are telling us about how to make flexible work quality work

by Jeshua John, on March 8, 2023 at 9:57 AM
As part of our commitment to ensuring workers inform every aspect of our work, we conducted interviews with participants from a 2021 test of the platform. 
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Report release: Analysis of existing research about gig work and workers

by Adrian Haro, on January 31, 2023 at 3:36 PM
How inconsistencies in questions, terms, and definitions are preventing a comprehensive understanding of what gig work is, who gig workers are, and what they need. 
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We’re Working With Cities To Explore How Flexible Work Can Be Quality Work

by Adrian Haro, on November 4, 2022 at 12:51 PM
Earlier this year, we launched a major effort to continue exploring how flexible work can be quality work. The effort builds from a pilot project we supported alongside the City of Long Beach,...
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Final report: How states and workers shaped a tech solution to improve access to safety net benefits

by Adrian Haro, on June 6, 2022 at 8:37 PM
The Workers Lab is thrilled to release our final report on efforts to improve gig workers' access to safety net benefits. The report details findings from our pilots of the "Income Passport" tech...
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Announcing $1M investment to explore how flexible work can be quality work

by Adrian Haro, on March 21, 2022 at 4:02 PM
Many workers need and want opportunities for flexible work that are also quality work. The demand for flexibility is not new and only continues to grow as we emerge from the pandemic and as costs for...
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New report: How gig workers shaped a tech solution to access critical benefits

by Adrian Haro, on December 2, 2021 at 5:52 PM
The Workers Lab is excited to release the latest learnings from our efforts to improve access to public safety net benefits for gig workers.
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Making Sense of Emergency Cash

by Jeshua John, on July 1, 2021 at 7:48 AM
Emergency cash is about getting money in the hands of people who need it, when they need it. We're working to give this idea for workers a chance to succeed.
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Sprinting to Get Gig Workers Unemployment Benefits

by Adrian Haro, on March 31, 2021 at 8:57 PM
We’re happy to announce the product of our latest Design Sprint focused on increasing power for gig workers by easing the headaches around securing unemployment benefits.
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