Combatting Wage Theft
Protecting Day Laborers
Our Partnership
Sixty-two percent of Latino day laborers in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area have experienced wage theft, but fewer than 40 percent ask for assistance. To help understand this and protect day laborers from exploitation, we worked with scholars from the University of California, Los Angeles to research this phenomenon. Through scholarship focused on the public good, we hope to advance the understanding of issues facing minority workers and improve economic outcomes.
About Our Research
We leverage cross-institutional collaboration to address some of today’s most pressing challenges, producing interdisciplinary solutions that influence policymakers to effectively serve the public good. From Stanford to UChicago to NYU, we’ve refined our collaborative process through years of mutually beneficial relationships with institutions nationwide to understand and address challenges like climate change, HIV and youth homelessness.
DU’s current research efforts have been featured in news outlets like The New York Times. They include…
- exploring the effects of felony disenfranchisement.
- employing lasers as the medium for quantum science.
- using theatre to heal and rehabilitate inmates.