Media/Opinion
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Published Opinion Essays
"Unemployment Insurance Is Stuck in 1935." Bloomberg
"The US Labor Market's Best Just Isn't Good Enough." Bloomberg
"Child Care has Failed. The Government Can Help." Bloomberg
"Policymakers, Check Your Presumptuousness" Bloomberg
"US Companies Aren't Firing Like They Used To" Bloomberg
"When Will US Workers Get Paid Family Leave? Try 2035" Bloomberg
"The Job Market Struggles to Solve the Recession Puzzle" Bloomberg
"America is Choosing to Keep Children in Poverty" Bloomberg
"Yet Again, American isn't Ready for a Recession" Bloomberg
"Mass Long-Covid Disability Threatens the Economy" Bloomberg
"Working Moms' Winter Math is Getting Tougher" Bloomberg
"Got a Labor Shortage? Make it Easier to Work" Bloomberg
"Recovered by Not Whole: US Jobs Rebounded, But Not For Everyone" RAND Blog
"The 'Right To Life' Will End Up Killing Women" Bloomberg
"Is a Recession Coming? Beware of This Indicator" Bloomberg
"Amazon Aside, Workers are Struggling to Regain Power" Bloomberg
"Poor Single Mothers Need Money, Not Husbands" Bloomberg
"America's Endangered Solution to Child Poverty" Bloomberg
"How to Explain This Weird Job Market" Wall Street Journal
"What MLMs and Stay-at-home Moms Reveal About the Labor Market" Dallas Morning News
"America Can Find a Smarter Way to Help Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs" New York Times
"Job Openings are at a Record High, Why Aren't People Going Back to Work?" Barron's
"How the Coronavirus Changed the Child Care Debate" RAND Blog
"Should Mothers Work? We've Been Asking the Wrong Question" Dallas Morning News
"Supporting Working Parents Could Accelerate Recovery" Ms. Magazine
"Will States Take the Wrong Lesson About Unemployment Insurance's Failings?" RAND Blog
"The Pandemic is Completely Changing the Way We Treat Unemployment" Washington Post
"A Bell That Can't Be Unrung: The CARES Act and Unemployment Insurance" RAND Blog
"Unemployment Insurance and the Failure to Reform" RAND Blog
"Without Unemployment Benefits, How Might Americans Make Ends Meet?" RAND Blog
"Covid-19 Gave Managers a Look at Our Home Lives. Will They Now Penalize Women?" Bloomberg
"Women are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers" Dallas Morning News
"Sitting it Out? Or Pushed Out? Women are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers" RAND Blog
"A $2.5 Trillion Question: What if Incomes Grew Like GDP Did?" Promarket
"There are Racial Disparities in American Unemployment Benefits. That's By Design" LA Times
"For Leisure and Hospitality Workers, Weak Recovery Still Looks Like Recession" RAND Blog
"What Unemployment Statistics Obscure About Temporary Layoffs" RAND Blog
"Is the US Stuck with a Fixed Add On for Unemployment Insurance" RAND Blog
"The Racial Disparity in Unemployment Benefits" RAND Blog
"Working Moms at Risk of Being Left Behind in Economic Recovery" United Press International
"Is the Unemployment Rate Now Higher Than it was in the Great Depression?" RAND Blog
"Millions Need Unemployment Benefits. Unfortunately, the Delivery System is Broken" LA Times
TV
"US Job Growth Tops Forecast" Bloomberg
"Unique Moment in US Labor Participation and Supply" Bloomberg
"Economy Hinges on Workforce" Bloomberg
"Why Low-Income Families Are Struggling to Afford Diapers" PBS NewsHour
"By Many Metrics, Labor Market Has Not Fully Recovered" Bloomberg
Recorded Panel Events
"Where Did All The Workers Go?" Panelist, Barron's Roundtable
"Toward an Inclusive Recovery: Understanding and Empowering Women's Economic Participation" Panelist, Federal Reserve Community Development Research Seminar
"Ask us Anything: The Cost of Inequality in our Labor Market" Panelist, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
"Fixing What's Broken: The Pandemic Economy" Panelist, GBH Forum
"An Unequal Burden: Women, Work, Care, and Covid-19" Panelist, POLITICO Women Rule
Podcast guests
"We are Thinking About Poverty in America All Wrong" Great Ideas
"Income Inequality, Side Hustles, and Social Insurance" Forecast Direct
"Women Leaving the Labor Force During the Pandemic" Poverty and Policy
"Proof Positive of the Winner Take All Economy" Who What Why
"Sign of the Times: Inflation Cooling, Nuclear Fusion, SBF Arrested" Skimm This
"Both Sides Now: Recession Fears, VP Harris on Abortion, Heat Waves" Skimm This
"Time Machine: Roe v. Wade and Recession Fears" Skimm This
"‘Female-Led Recession’: How Economists Think Unemployment Will Impact Women and Minorities" Skimm This
"The She-Cession: Policy Crisis Meets Reality" Skimm This
"New Year, New You, New Impeachment" Skimm This