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** EARN Notice September 2025
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Greetings, EARN community,

I hope you all had opportunity to rest and recharge over the summer. For me, the transition to fall has felt particularly abrupt. Chaotic school drop-off lines and complicated extracurricular sign-up processes have layered stress on top of oddly high-stakes BLS and Census data releases and daily new troubling actions taken by federal authorities against workers, immigrants, and our democratic systems.

In the face of relentless and chaotic federal threats, our network’s focus on state and local resistance and progress toward a more equitable, just, and people-centered economy is heartening and more important than ever — like the recent news of New Mexico establishing the first statewide universal child care program ([link removed]) in the country, or New York enacting legislation to safeguard threatened federal labor protections ([link removed]) , or the successful effort to stop a rollback of the Olympic wage ordinance ([link removed]) in Los Angeles, or the thousands mobilizing in Missouri ([link removed]) to protest gerrymandering and weakening of the state’s voter-led
constitutional amendment process, or the largest union election of healthcare workers in Pennsylvania history ([link removed]) . The list goes on ([link removed]) , and EARN groups have had key roles in many of these efforts.

We on the EARN team at EPI continue to take inspiration from these and other recent wins as we focus our thinking on what states and localities can proactively do to protect workers ([link removed]) in this moment, and to sustain the multiracial labor and grassroots organizations our country needs to strengthen communities and reject ([link removed]) authoritarianism.

I know many of you are thinking about these things too. I’m looking forward to hearing your ideas, your success stories, and your ambitions for what we can do together at EARNCon - New Orleans ([link removed]) in less than two months.

In the meantime, thank you for all that you do and, as always, don’t hesitate to reach out (mailto:[email protected]) if we can be helpful.

Cheers,

Dave


** New Publications
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Labor Day 2025: State Complacency and Federal Decisions Threaten Workers’ Economic Security ([link removed]) (September 1)

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Looking Ahead: The Impact of HR1 on Utah’s Immigrant Families ([link removed]) (September 5)

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Immigrants Bolster the Economy; Deportations Weaken It ([link removed]) (September 9)

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"Alligator Alcatraz” Cost Law, Lives, and Urgent State Priorities ([link removed]) (July 25)


** Upcoming EARN Events
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EARNCon 2025: General Registration Closes Next Week!
General registration pricing will be available through Sept. 30th

Join us for EARNCon 2025 ([link removed]) in New Orleans, LA from November 12–14, 2025. This year’s conference will center around the theme “Community, Solidarity, Resistance: Building multi-racial worker power in the states." Additional information, including a tentative conference agenda can be found on our conference website ([link removed]) .
Register here ([link removed])


** ICYMI: Recent EARN Events
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Using EPI’s CPS Microdata Extracts in R: On September 17th we hosted this webinar providing an overview of the Current Population Survey (CPS) and demonstrated EPI's tools for loading and analyzing CPS microdata in R. Visit the EARN code library page linked below for access to the webinar recording, slides, and code workflow.
Don't forget to join us at EARNCon 2025 ([link removed]) for the State of Working X Data Bootcamp on Wednesday, November 12th in New Orleans, LA.

EARN Code Library - Using EPI's CPS Extracts in R ([link removed])

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