Join Northeastern University Professor and labor economist Alicia Modestino as she hosts the Economic Policy Institute's Elise Gould and The New School's Rick McGahey for a discussion and worker-focused analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s jobs, unemployment, and wages report for November 2023.
The conversation will be live streamed here on the Power At Work Blog: https://PowerAtWork.us/. If you’re unable to join live, the video blogcast and audio podcast will be available after the blogcast on the Power At Work Blog, YouTube, and all commercial podcasting websites, including Spotify, Apple, and Google Podcasts.
This in-depth conversation about the latest jobs, wages, and unemployment numbers, will seek to examine and explain this snapshot of the U.S. economy and what it mean for unions, workers and their families, and worker power.
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. Before that, he was a Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the New School’s Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. He is the author of Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality.
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