A Centerline Woman policy brief — by T.M. A System Built for a Workforce That No Longer Fits It America’s core worker-protection programs — unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, and Social Security disability — were built in the 1930s and ’40s around a single assumption: one worker, one employer, a W-2, and a paycheck with taxes…

The Economic Ripple Effect: How Immigration Raids Move Through Local Labor Markets Interior immigration enforcement has been pitched as labor-market policy — clear out unauthorized workers, open jobs for American-born ones. The data says otherwise. From a 70% output drop at a single Nebraska meatpacking plant to a 20–40% agricultural workforce reduction on California’s Central…