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Miguel Contreras Labor Program
Miguel Contreras Labor Program

Unemployment Benefits Critical to Jobless Workers and Economic Recovery in California 
by Sylvia A. Allegretto and Laurel Lucia, April 2011The State of Working America’s Wealth, 2011: Through volatility and turmoil, the gap widens 
by Sylvia A. Allegretto and Laurel Lucia, April 2011Does ‘Right-to-Work’ Create Jobs? Answers from Oklahoma 
by Gordon Lafer and Sylvia Allegretto, March 2011Waiting for Change: The $2.13 Federal Subminimum Wage 
by Sylvia Allegretto and Kai Fillion, February 2011The Truth about Public Employees in California: They are Neither Overpaid nor Overcompensated 
by Sylvia Allegretto and Jeffrey Keefe, October 2010The Severe Crisis of Jobs in the United States and California 
Sylvia Allegretto, August 2010The Jobs Emergency
Robert Reich, August 9, 2010The State of Black Workers before the Great Recession 
Sylvia Allegretto and Steven Pitts, July 2010The Living New Deal: The Unsung Benefits of the New Deal for the United States and California 
Richard A. Walker and Gray Brechin, August 1, 2010Regional Economic Impacts of Proposed Health and Human Services Cuts 
by Ken Jacobs, Laurel Lucia and T. William Lester, July 2010High Unemployment After the Great Recession: Why? What Can We Do?
Michael Reich, June 2010The Economic Consequences of Proposed California Budget Cuts 
by Ken Jacobs, Laurel Lucia and T. William Lester, May 2010











