Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, hosts this month's Workers by the Numbers Blogcast. Listen to her in conversation with Elise Gould and Rick McGahey as they discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs, wages, and unemployment report for November 2023. This conversation was aired live on the homepage of the blog at 12:00 PM ET on Friday, December 8. You don't want to miss this Numbers Day blogcast!
Alicia Modestino is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Economics, as well as the Research Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. She previously served as Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Elise Gould has been a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute since 2003. She focuses her research on wages, poverty, inequality, economic mobility and healthcare. She has co-authored two books:The State of Working America, 12th Edition, and a book on health insurance coverage in retirement. She has been published in numerous academic journals and on the op-ed pages of USA Today and The Detroit News.
Rick McGahey is a Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy. He has worked in academia, philanthropy, the private sector, and government at all levels—federal, state, and local—and is a nationally recognized expert on urban and regional economic development, program evaluation, retirement policy, and workforce development.
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