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Now Open for Business: The Workers Lab’s New Technology Division

by Jeshua John, on August 29, 2024 at 7:00 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that we have made incredible strides with our new technology division at The Workers Lab, including securing two new client partnerships – with SEIU 503 and MLK Labor...
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Welcome to the National Home for Worker-Centered Innovation

by Adrian Haro, on February 1, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Ten years ago, The Workers Lab started as an idea born out of labor organizations, foundations, and individuals in Seattle as an innovation arm that would invest in new ideas for and with workers,...
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Our new Fast Company op-ed: We need a blueprint for good gig work

by Eddy Morales, on September 8, 2023 at 8:44 AM
This Labor Day, TWL’s Adrian Haro, alongside Xavier de Souza Briggs of Brookings and Shelly Steward of the Aspen Institute, laid out the need for a blueprint for good gig work. {% module_block...
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Fast Company Recognizes Winning Ideas for Workers Coming Back

by The Workers Lab, on February 22, 2021 at 3:07 PM
The Workers Lab and CEO Adrian Haro are in the news. A profile from Fast Company highlights The Innovation Fund’s winners from the Fall 2020 grant cycle and shares our vision of worker power.
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Topics: The Innovation Fund| In The News

The Workers Lab Announces Adrian Haro as Permanent CEO

by The Workers Lab, on June 30, 2020 at 5:59 AM
At The Workers Lab we are thrilled to share that Adrian Haro is our permanent CEO. He becomes the second Latino/a and queer CEO in our organization's history.
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The Workers Lab Knows How to Get Emergency Cash to Workers

by The Workers Lab, on May 4, 2020 at 4:51 PM
The Workers Fund was profiled by Fast Company and Mashable on May 1 - which was International Workers Day. Both of these publications reach over 25 million viewers.
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Fighting for Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

by The Workers Lab, on April 17, 2020 at 5:24 PM
NationSwell published a great interview with our Interim CEO Adrian Haro about why our work matters so much right now. During the interview, Adrian discusses how workers who were vulnerable before...
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City Official Wins Social Innovation Grant That Helps Airport Workers

by The Workers Lab, on January 16, 2020 at 3:24 PM
A study last year found 40% of American adults don’t have the funds available in cash or savings to pay for an emergency. In San Francisco, many employed adults are one emergency away from financial...
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Topics: The Innovation Fund| In The News

Improving Working Conditions for Migrant Dairy Farm Workers

by The Workers Lab, on November 27, 2019 at 2:00 PM
Migrant Justice builds worker power for vulnerable farmworkers. With a goal to improve labor and housing conditions and raise industry standards, their Milk with Dignity program earned them a...
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The Basic Income Podcast Explores The Workers Strength Fund

by The Workers Lab, on November 11, 2019 at 10:56 AM
The Basic Income Podcast interviews leading figures and newsmakers in the basic income movement. So it makes perfect sense they would interview The Workers Lab Managing Director, Betsy Edasery. This...
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