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The American Worker Project: Toward a New Consensus

Adam Ozimek, John Lettieri, Ben Glasner

Economic Innovation Group

Summary

The American Worker Project assembles evidence on how the typical American worker is faring across pay, benefits, job quality, and mobility. It argues that workers are more prosperous than prior generations by most measures, but that the pace of improvement has slowed and that public perception of the labor market often lags what the underlying data show. The project calls for a shared, evidence-based understanding of worker well-being to ground policy debate.

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Coverage and interviews

• New Project Looks to Build Consensus on State of American Worker Spotlight on Poverty · July 2024
• The case against the doom-and-gloom view for American workers Axios · July 2024
• Are you better off today? A question for voters as Biden, Trump debate Reuters · June 2024

All media and coverage

Cite this

Adam Ozimek, John Lettieri, and Ben Glasner. 2024. “The American Worker Project: Toward a New Consensus.” Economic Innovation Group. https://eig.org/american-worker/.

BibTeX

@techreport{ozimek_lettieri_glasner_2024_american_worker,
  title = {The {American Worker Project}: Toward a New Consensus},
  author = {Ozimek, Adam and Lettieri, John and Glasner, Ben},
  institution = {Economic Innovation Group},
  year = {2024},
  month = jun,
}