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SMLR experts discuss the continuing struggle for racial justice in the workplace.


In celebration of Black History Month, SMLR’s Francis Ryan interviews the longtime labor leader about his 50-year fight for racial justice and workers’ rights.


Led by SMLR's Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, co-directors of the Program for Disability Research, Rutgers has produced more studies on disability and work than any other institution. Three major grants are now turbocharging their work.




SMLR's Program for Disability Research projects the number of eligible voters with disabilities in every state. A massive expansion of mail-in voting could spur higher turnout.


SMLR's Center for Women and Work teamed-up with the National Domestic Workers Alliance and its affiliates to study the challenges facing housecleaners, nannies, and home health aides in New Jersey.


A study co-authored by SMLR's Center for Women and Work finds both parents do better in their jobs when dads take on more childcare and chores.


SMLR's Center for Innovation in Worker Organization finds minimum wage violations increased during the Great Recession of 2008. The problem could be even worse during the COVID-19 pandemic.


New research by SMLR's Center for Innovation in Worker Organization finds many wage theft victims do not come forward. Strategic enforcement would prevent them from falling through the cracks.