<p> The unemployment rate is improving—at 5.9 percent in October, it is nearly back to its pre-recession norm. Yet a recent poll found that the average American thinks the current rate is 32 percent. The Century Foundation’s Mike Cassidy explains that part of the problem may be that the unemployment rate is not actually a good measure of the health of the labor market. This report looks at four underappreciated weaknesses in today's labor market.</p>

Mike Cassidy

Published October 1, 2015

A Smarter Charter: City Neighbors

A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education

Richard D. Kahlenberg and Halley Potter

Published October 1, 2015

Seven Lessons about Child Poverty

Clio Chang

Published October 1, 2015

Who Are the Unemployed?

Installment #2 in The Century Foundation’s Working Paper Series

Mike Cassidy

Published October 1, 2015

Where Are the Jobs?

Installment #3 in The Century Foundation’s Working Paper Series

Mike Cassidy

Published October 1, 2015

Dismantling the Prison State

Part One in The Century Foundation series "Costs and Consequences of the War on Drugs"

Patrick Radden Keefe

Published September 22, 2015

The Covert For-Profit

How College Owners Escape Oversight through a Regulatory Blind Spot

Robert Shireman

Published September 14, 2015

Charters without Borders

Using Inter-district Charter Schools as a Tool for Regional School Integration

Halley Potter

Published September 8, 2015

A New Era of Civil Rights

Proposals to Address the Economic Inequalities in Robert Putnam's "Our Kids”

Richard D. Kahlenberg

Published August 6, 2015

Architecture of Segregation

Civil Unrest, the Concentration of Poverty, and Public Policy

Paul A. Jargowsky

Published August 3, 2015

Fix for $15

A Closer Look at New York’s Minimum Wage Increase for Fast-Food Workers

Mike Cassidy

Published July 13, 2015

Two Views on the Failure of Policing

Part Two in The Century Foundation series "Costs and Consequences of the War on Drugs"

Patrick Radden Keefe

Published June 10, 2015

Virtual Labor Organizing

Could Technology Help Reduce Income Inequality?

Mark Zuckerman, Richard D. Kahlenberg, and Moshe Z. Marvit

Published May 7, 2015

The New Era of Executive Action

How President Obama Is Advancing a Progressive Agenda

The Century Foundation

Published June 19, 2014

The Future of Affirmative Action

New Paths to Higher Education Diversity after Fisher v. University of Texas

Introductory chapter of a volume on socioeconomic affirmative action from The Century Foundation and Lumina Foundation. Full book is downloadable from the introduction.

Richard D. Kahlenberg

Published March 6, 2014