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The Illinois Economic Policy Institute promotes thoughtful economic growth for businesses and working families.

Building a Strong Minnesota: An Analysis of Minnesota’s Union Construction Industry
By Frank Manzo IV, Jill Gigstad, Robert Bruno, and Kevin Duncan

Apprenticeship Training

Protecting Workers’ Rights in Illinois: Illinois Fares Better than “Right-to-Work” States on 10 Important Economic Outcomes
By Frank Manzo IV and Robert Bruno

Workers' Rights

Blue-Collar Construction Worker Wages Fell After Indiana Repealed Its Prevailing Wage Law
By Frank Manzo IV

Prevailing Wage

Women and Child Care in Illinois: A Survey of Working Mothers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Frank Manzo IV, Alison Dickson, Robert Bruno, Jill Gigstad, and Emily E. LB. Twarog

Economic Development

Building Good Jobs on Clean Energy Projects: A Primer on the Economics of Unions and Prevailing Wage Standards in Illinois
By Frank Manzo IV

Clean Energy

COVID-19 and Transportation Funding in Illinois: One Year Later
By Mary Tyler

Infrastructure

Improving Transportation Investment through Performance-Based Programming
By Mary Tyler

Infrastructure

Promoting Good Jobs and a Stronger Economy: How Free Collective-Bargaining States Outperform “Right-to-Work” States
By Frank Manzo IV and Robert Bruno

Workers' Rights

On-Demand Workers, Sub-Minimum Wages: Evidence from Transportation Network Provider Trips in the City of Chicago
By Frank Manzo IV and Robert Bruno

Workers' Rights

The Costs of Wage Theft and Payroll Fraud in the Construction Industries of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois: Impacts on Workers and Taxpayers
By Frank Manzo IV and Nathaniel Goodell

Workers' Rights