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The American Worker Project, led by Director David Madland, Policy Analyst Karla Walter, and Research Associate Amanda Logan, conducts research to increase the wages, benefits, and security of American workers and promote their rights at work.

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• The Progressive Future is Here, November 6, 2008
• The Benefit of Defined Benefits, October 22, 2008
• Joe the Plumber Done Right, October 22, 2008
• Millennial Economics: It Don’t Matter if You’re Black or White (or Hispanic), October 6, 2008
• Una Cuestión de Prioridades, September 29, 2008
• A Question of Priorities, September 29, 2008
• Second Stimulus Needed to Create Jobs and Revive Our Economy, September 18, 2008
• Bush Shirks Role as Top Labor Cop, September 9, 2008
• Job Losses Mount, August 1, 2008
• The Progressive Generation: How Young Americans View Economic Issues and Why It Matters, July 28, 2008
• Young People Want Progressive Economic Change, July 31, 2008
• Let Unions Work for U.S., Politico, July 21, 2008
• Why Biased Media Coverage Matters, July 10, 2008
• Event: The Media, The Economy and Workers: The Election Anomaly
• Journalists Give Workers the Business, June 20, 2008
  
• Record Unemployment Should Be a Clarion Call for Action, June 6, 2008
• A Tale of Two Conservatives, June 5, 2008
• Ask the Expert: Young Americans and the Economy, June 3, 2008
• The Progressive Generation, May 6, 2008
• Strengthening America’s First and Foremost Retirement Plan, April 23, 2008
• The Write Stuff, April 10, 2008
• Dismal Employment Numbers: 80,000 Jobs Lost, April 4, 2008
• Employment Hits New Low, February 1, 2008
• What Would Jesus Tax?, January 19, 2008
• American Workers See New Lows at the Year's End, January 12, 2008
• Responsible Investment: A Budget and Fiscal Policy Plan for Progressive Growth, January 9, 2008
• American Workers See New Lows at the Year’s End, January 4, 2008
• Progressive Growth, November 28, 2007
• Mixed Signals: Job Growth Up But Concentrated in Only a Few Industries, November 2, 2007
• What Workers Want, Congress Should Provide, August 3, 2007