Research Posts

Downgraded by War: Rising Debt and Credit Downgrades Make Israeli Bonds Increasingly Risky Bet for U.S. Investors As Israel’s military campaigns in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria continue, Israel’s debt load is skyrocketing and its economy is struggling to keep pace.

Driven Out By AI: How Uber Deactivations Force Drivers into Chatbot Hell and Financial Crisis Rideshare corporations like Uber and Lyft disrupt drivers’ lives through deactivation policies that abruptly block drivers’ access to platforms and income. These firms use AI-driven

When we don't tax the rich, our communities are forced to foot the bill, widening the racial pay gap and hurting Black and Brown Philadelphians the most.

How Temporary Staffing Agencies Rely on a Racist Business Model to Discriminate Today’s temporary work landscape emerges from a history of racist labor practices dating back to slavery and sharecropping. The earliest iteration of temporary staffing agencies sold slave labor

Real community safety comes from addressing the underlying issues that lead to crime and violence.

Murdered Behind the Wheel: An Escalating Crisis for App Drivers - Spring 2023 At least 31 app-based workers, primarily people of color, were murdered while working.

Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas touts his record of balancing budgets and fiscal responsibility, but a close look at his financial policies as the Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) shows a pattern of kicking financial problems down the road and leaving future generations of schoolchildren with the bill.

Since its founding, DHS has relied on a state of “emergency” to carry out its operations. Twenty years later, this state of “emergency” has not ended and immigration policing, “national security,” and surveillance have become big business.

Fidelity’s lagging on climate and environmental justice issues comes as less of a surprise given its extremely close - but largely unscrutinized - ties to the fossil fuel industry, specifically at the heights of the firm’s ownership and governance.