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Saru Jayaraman, a vocal leader in the food labor movement and founder of Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC), has been supported by the Ford Foundation for more than a decade. The New York Times profiles her efforts for restaurant workers.

The newest report from the JPMorgan Chase Institute, “Paychecks, Paydays, and the Online Platform Economy: Big Data on Income Volatility,” answers questions about income volatility among U.S. workers.

A new program to help Detroit home buyers finance purchases will guarantee 1,000 mortgages in a city where banks have been skittish about lending because of deeply depressed property values.

A rigorous approach to measuring charitable ROI (return on investment) is becoming more popular in the Jewish communal world and UJA-Federation of New York, which will celebrate its centennial next year, is wading into this world of metrics...