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The JOBS NOW Coalition promotes economic opportunity through research, education and advocacy. It is the oldest and largest employment policy coalition of its ... See Morekind in the nation.

The coalition consists of over 100 religious, labor, business and community organizations that ignore their differences to focus on what they have in common�"their belief that all workers should have the opportunity to attain a decent standard of living.

Because of this widely shared belief, JOBS NOW's research tries to answer the questions that reflect the concerns of workers: What is a family-supporting wage? How many jobs pay this kind of wage?

By providing answers to these questions, JOBS NOW has developed alternatives to conventional economic indicators like the unemployment rate. These alternative indicators give us a new way of looking at the labor market outcomes, a yardstick for measuring our economic performance by how our society values and rewards work.

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