2013 study by the UMass Amherst and the U.C. Irvine in Social Forces on the effect of unions' political activities on members' levels of broader social engagement.

2014 study by the Research and Statistics Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on employment prospects for recent college graduates and historical patterns.

2014 report from Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality summarizing recent research to paint a fuller picture of the nation's economic health.

2013 report by the National Council for Research on Women based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and other sources.

2013 study by the University of Pittsburgh published in the American Journal of Public Health on the impact of paid sick days on influenza transmission.

2013 review of academic scholarship and government research on women, work and work/life balance.

2013 paper from U.T. Austin and Cornell University in Social Forces comparing the retention of women working in STEM-related fields to those in non-STEM work.

2012 study published in the journal Sociology on the relationship between occupational segregation by gender and the extent of gender inequality.

2011 study by University of Washington and Harvard University in the American Sociological Review on union membership trends and impacts on the labor market.

2013 review of U.S. Bureau of Labor findings, and Pew Research Center data on issues of gender and the division of work and household tasks.