As part of our mission to connect world-class research with policy to improve workers’ lives, communities, and society, IRLE researchers are rapidly responding to the COVID-19 crisis. Explore recent research and resources from our centers and programs.

A new brief finds that formerly incarcerated men who graduated from college struggle to get jobs that require a degree, indicating that a college degree fails to eliminate criminal record stigma.

A new policy brief reviews research from Catherine Fisk on how recent Alt-Labor campaigns might better institutionalize gains through co-enforcement and expansion of hiring halls.

This fact sheet by Jill Duerr Berrick’s Undergraduate Student Research Cohort outlines why children enter into foster care and the disparate educational and vocational outcomes of former foster youth.