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Empowering American Workers
Mercatus Center
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Mercatus scholars are helping to deliver policy outcomes that improve people’s lives. Liya Palagashvili’s research focuses on empowering independent workers through portable benefits—benefits that aren’t tied to a specific employer but travel with the worker. Liya believes the issue of portable benefits will be central to the American workforce of the 21st century: “The portable benefits revolution has arrived!” She has driven a niche policy idea to the top of the congressional agenda; the story below shows the difference this idea is making in the lives of everyday Americans.
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