Laura Stateler

Laura Stateler is a senior research assistant at Brookings Metro. Under the direction of Molly Kinder, a Fellow at Brookings Metro, Stateler conducts research on the present and future of work, especially for low-wage workers and women. Her most recent work has focused on the essential workers at the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stateler previously interned with Martha Ross, a Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, and served as a Paralegal/Organizer at the Workers Defense Project, a worker center in Austin, Texas for low-wage, immigrant workers in the construction industry. She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and international studies from Boston College.

Local COVID-19 hazard pay mandates are doing what Congress and most corporations aren’t for essential workers

Molly Kinder and Laura Stateler

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Laura Stateler

Frontline workers were excluded from companies’ pandemic windfalls. No wonder so many are forming unions.

Profits and the pandemic: As shareholder wealth soared, workers were left behind

With inflation surging, big companies’ wage upticks aren’t nearly enough

A policy manifesto for paying, protecting, and empowering essential workers

Amazon’s union battle in Bessemer, Alabama is about dignity, racial justice, and the future of the American worker

Essential workers comprise about half of all workers in low-paid occupations. They deserve a $15 minimum wage.

Local COVID-19 hazard pay mandates are doing what Congress and most corporations aren’t for essential workers

Amazon and Walmart have raked in billions in additional profits during the pandemic, and shared almost none of it with their workers

Windfall profits and deadly risks

Work-based learning can advance equity and opportunity for America’s young people