To Truly Honor Labor Day, Compensate Mothers
By reinstating the expanded child tax credit and scaling guaranteed income programs that are caring for mothers, we have a unique opportunity to elevate mothers every day of the year.
Our Work
The Insight Center drives structural, transformative change across three pillars of work, all focused on building economic inclusion and racial equity for people of color, women, immigrants, and marginalized families in the US.
Recent Publications
“Guaranteed income has tremendous potential to create a more equitable economy, but only if programs target these resources to those who have been most marginalized by our economy. Pilots must, at the very least, be targeted by income. Elon Musk does not need a guaranteed income, a Black mother in San Francisco does.”
Recent Publications
“You cannot work on a topic as mired in harmful narratives as the social safety net without inherently contributing to public perception around who we see as worthy of investment, and who we do not.”Recent Publications
“To make progress on advancing economic equity we must interrogate and dismantle harmful narratives, and this paper sets forward the framework for doing exactly that.”
Recent Publications
“Our research shows what most Californians already know – people are struggling to stay afloat financially, and the situation is far worse for Black and Latinx families.”
Recent Publications
“‘Mississippi Is America’ demonstrates the consequences of America’s two-tiered labor market in which Black and brown workers and women are denied access to economic security on the job.”
Family Needs Calculator
In California alone, 3.34 million households are living paycheck to paycheck.
Today’s problems are the result of systemic policy failures—not personal responsibility. By analyzing what’s happening in California, one of the nation’s largest states, the Insight Center’s Family Needs Calculator provides a more accurate understanding of what’s needed to meet the basic needs of people throughout the US.
Recent News
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