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The study found that political decisions, including Gov. Greg Abbott's mandate to allow construction work to continue during the coronavirus pandemic's outset, placed employees in that sector at risk.

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice’s recent report on the inordinate effects of COVID-19 on Austin’s construction workers is damning, but not surprising.

Economic policies and rapid growth in Austin led to COVID-19 outbreaks among mostly Latino construction workers in the area, a new report finds.

Our newly-released report is titled “COVID-19, Structural Inequality, and the Past and Future of Low-Income Latinx Construction Workers in Austin, Texas.”

Read our joint statement with WOLA, USNDB, and Brazilian civil society organizations on the fight to protect Brazilian indigenous and Quilombola communities’ rights.

Our research teams have developed case studies about COVID-19 “hot-spots” in the construction, food, and care sectors, across six sites in the U.S. and abroad.

Six advocates highlight the critical importance of engaging jailhouse lawyers–and incarcerated people generally–in the current movements for prison abolition and racial justice.

We stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the local, national and global struggle against brutal and ongoing forms of inequality and injustice.

A bilingual conversation between quilombola advocates in Brazil and members of the Austin Justice Coalition about the fight against white supremacy, violence, and territorial dispossession.

The UT Office of the Vice President for Research recently awarded funding to the Center for an institute entitled “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality.”