CAROW Policy Lab

The Policy Lab is a multidisciplinary community within The Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) and the ILR School that connects research on work with the practice of putting it to use. As a home for the robust policy work taking place across Cornell, the CAROW Policy Lab is uniquely positioned to facilitate collaboration between colleagues working on state and national-level policy analysis, recommendations, and tools. Through this collaboration, we ultimately aim to provide the public with the tools to understand and resolve the challenges of our contemporary labor market and its many intersections.

Objectives:

1. To foster collaboration and innovation among faculty and students across ILR in the topic areas where ILR’s existing policy efforts overlap or intersect, and to dedicate resources to explore areas where they potentially could
2. To raise the profile of the applied policy work taking place across the ILR School and serve as a hub to host data and content and as a “one-stop-shop” for external policy audiences to easily access and interact with ILR’s work
3. To convene policymakers, community partners, and other stakeholders with researchers from across the ILR School, in an effort to nimbly address the most relevant policy issues of the day related to labor and work