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Columns

 

Bloomberg

"The Youth Crisis Is Really About the Rise of the NEETs"

"This Labor Market Isn’t Great for Women, Either"

"When a Downturn Comes, Will Republicans Acknowledge It?"

"Venus Williams Exposed All That's Wrong With Health Insurance"

"The Bureau of Labor Statistics is Not the Problem"

"Why Medicaid Work Requirements Won't Work"

How to Revive America's 'Golden Middle’"

"The American Worker has Lost All Leverage."

"House Republicans’ Budget Plan Gets Poverty All Wrong"

"Don’t Let the Data Fool You: The US Is Failing Working Women."

"The Future of the Middle Class Is ‘Low-Skilled’ Work."

"Universal Pre-K Is Worth the Cost. Now We Have Proof."

"The Jobs Numbers Don't Lie, but Politicians Do"

"Make Social Security the Model to Fix the Minimum Wage."

"Women are America's Working Class Now."

"Applying for a Job Shouldn't Be So Humiliating."

"US Housing Crisis is Really About Low-Wage Jobs."

"When Children Die Working, Here's Whom to Blame."

"Nice Soft Landing, America. But What Comes Next?"

"The People's Inflation is Still a Big Problem."

"Soccer's Women Fight for Workers Everywhere"

"Passed Over for a Black Man? The Labor Market Disagrees" 

"Forget Inflation. The US Economy Has Bigger Problems."

"The US Labor Market's Best Just Isn't Good Enough."

"Policymakers, Check Your Presumptuousness"

"US Companies Aren't Firing Like They Used To"

"The Job Market Struggles to Solve the Recession Puzzle"

"Yet Again, American isn't Ready for a Recession"

"Mass Long-Covid Disability Threatens the Economy"

"Got a Labor Shortage? Make it Easier to Work"

"Is a Recession Coming? Beware of This Indicator"

"Amazon Aside, Workers are Struggling to Regain Power"

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New York Times

"America Can Find a Smarter Way to Help Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs"

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Washington Post

"The Pandemic is Completely Changing the Way We Treat Unemployment"

 

LA Times

"There are Racial Disparities in American Unemployment Benefits. That's By Design"

"Millions Need Unemployment Benefits. Unfortunately, the Delivery System is Broken"

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Wall Street Journal

"How to Explain This Weird Job Market"

 

Barron's

"Job Openings are at a Record High, Why Aren't People Going Back to Work?"

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TV Appearances

Bloomberg TV

"Approaching Another Trump Trade Deadline"

"Edwards says the US is on Borrowed Time"

"US Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Since Jan"

"Is the Fed Going to 6%?"

"US Job Growth Tops Forecast"

"Unique Moment in US Labor Participation and Supply"

"Economy Hinges on Workforce"

"By Many Metrics, Labor Market Has Not Fully Recovered"

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Panel Events

"Where Did All The Workers Go?" Barron's Roundtable

"Fixing What's Broken: The Pandemic Economy" GBH Forum

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Radio/Podcast

Here and Now

"Rich spending papers over economy issues"

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Prof G Markets

"Ugly August Jobs Report Rattles Wall Street"

"Warning Signs from the Labor Market"

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Everybody's Business

"It Looks Like the ‘Vibecession’ Had It Right"

"ICE Raids, Expensive Cheap Food and a Venomous Black Market?"

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Marketplace

"The BLS has a $700 million budget. What's its ROI?"

"All Labor Markets are Local"

"An Economic Mirage of Sorts?"

"Why the Labor Market is Standing Over a Cliff"

"What's the Difference Between PPI and CPI?"

"Wage Gains After Changing Jobs Lower in April"

"The Cost of Income Inequality"

"Sunbelt cities top the list of booming U.S. job markets"

"Uneven state unemployment rates show different recovery arcs"

"Why hasn’t Congress fixed unemployment insurance?"

"Unemployment insurance is broken. What would it take to fix it?"

"Continuing unemployment claims, explained"

"Laid-off workers are leaving unemployment benefits on the table"

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All Things Considered

"How record inflation is affecting different people"

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Skimm This

"Sign of the Times: Inflation Cooling, Nuclear Fusion, SBF Arrested"

"Both Sides Now: Recession Fears, VP Harris on Abortion, Heat Waves"

"Time Machine: Roe v. Wade and Recession Fears"

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Labor Markets

Children and Moms

(including child care, child tax credit, women (not) working, and paid leave)
 

Columns

Bloomberg

"Yes, Cash Grants Do Help Families in Poverty"

"Fixing Child Care Requires a Plan That Republicans Reject"

"Economists Know What Trump's Gender Order Will Bring."

"Don't Let the Data Fool You, the US is Failing Working Women."

"Universal Pre-K Is Worth the Cost. Now We Have Proof."

"When Brett Favre is a Welfare Queen, Something is Wrong"

"Private Equity Will Trigger a Child Care Crisis"

"Harris's Child Care Plan is Flawed"

"Want Cheaper Grocery Bills? Give Kids Free School Meals."

"Parental Stress is an Underappreciated Drag on the Economy."

"Cash Welfare Works. Just Don't Call it That."

"America's Lack of Fertility Policy is Bad Economics."

"Women are America's Working Class Now"

"Quality Child Care for $15 a Day? We Can Do It!"

"Marry Rich. That’s the Republican Plan for Moms."

"Investing in Kids Pays, Even If Mom Is on Drugs."

"Exploiting Child Labor Won't Make American Great"

"Use The Estate Tax to Finance Early Childhood Education"

"The Market is Dictating How We Raise Our Kids"

"America is About to Fall Off a Childcare Cliff"

"Who Deserves Welfare? That's the Wrong Question."

"Child Care has Failed. The Government Can Help."

"When Will US Workers Get Paid Family Leave? Try 2035"

"America is Choosing to Keep Children in Poverty"

"Working Moms' Winter Math is Getting Tougher"

"The 'Right To Life' Will End Up Killing Women"

"Poor Single Mothers Need Money, Not Husbands"

"America's Endangered Solution to Child Poverty"

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Dallas Morning News

"What MLMs and Stay-at-home Moms Reveal About the Labor Market"

"Should Mothers Work? We've Been Asking the Wrong Question"

"Women are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers"

 

Ms. Magazine

"Supporting Working Parents Could Accelerate Recovery"

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United Press International

"Working Moms at Risk of Being Left Behind in Economic Recovery"

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Panel Events

"From Crisis to Care: Reimagining Childcare as Public Infrastructure"  

Panelist, The Roosevelt Institute

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"Investing the Workforce Behind the Workforce"  

Keynote Speaker, Early Learning Investment Coalition and Early Childhood Education Caucus
Pennsylvania State Legislature

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"The Economics of Child Care"  

Keynote Speaker, Child Care for Connecticut

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"14th Annual Sandra J Skolnik Lecture on Early Childhood Education & Advocacy"  

Keynote Speaker, Maryland Family Network

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"Over the Funding Cliff: America's Child Care Industry in the Absence of Federal Relief Dollars" 

The Hunt Institute.

 

"Aging Americans and a Waning Workforce:  Demographic Drivers of our Deficit "

Witness, United States Joint Economic Committee. 

 

"Child Care Since the Pandemic: Macroeconomic Impacts of Public Policy Measures"

Witness, United States Senate, Subcommittee on Economic Policy.

 

"Toward an Inclusive Recovery: Understanding and Empowering Women's Economic Participation" Federal Reserve Community Development Research Seminar

 

"Fixing What's Broken: The Pandemic Economy"

GBH Forum

 

"An Unequal Burden: Women, Work, Care, and Covid-19"

POLITICO Women Rule

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Radio/Podcast

"Let's fix child care together!" The Weeds

"We are Thinking About Poverty in America All Wrong" Great Ideas

"Women Leaving the Labor Force During the Pandemic" Poverty and Policy

"Why The Pandemic Is Forcing So Many Women To Leave Their Jobs"  All Things Considered​

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TikTok Playlist

Child Care

Columns

Bloomberg

"Social Security is Protection from Volatility"

"DOGE Just Might Usher In New Era of Big Government"

"Americans Would Pay Higher Taxes to Save Social Security."

"Tim Walz Reminds Us of Social Security's True Purpose."

"Conservative Fiscal Hawks Have Flown the Coop."

"Americans' Working Years Deserve a Better Ending."

"Baby Boomers Should Get Behind Paid Leave."

"To Stop the Fiscal Apocalypse, Bet on the Young"

"US Companies Aren't Firing Like They Used To"

"When Will US Workers Get Paid Family Leave? Try 2035"

"Mass Long-Covid Disability Threatens the Economy"

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Panel Events

"White House Social Security Anniversary Event"  Speaker, The White House

"Future of Wealth Discussion Series: Reimagining How Retirement Savings Can Build Wealth for Everybody"  Panelist, The Aspen Institute.

"Ever Wanted to Ask an Economist About Retirement?" 

Panelist, The National Institute on Retirement Security.

"Aging Americans and a Waning Workforce:  Demographic Drivers of our Deficit "

Witness, United States Joint Economic Committee. 

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Radio/Podcast

"Vote4 Social Security" You Earned This`

"Let's Fix Retirement Together" The Weeds

"Pandemic-era retirements have left a gap in the labor force" Marketplaces

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TikTok Playlist

Social Security

Retirement and Social Security

Written

Opinion Essays
 

Bloomberg, 2025

"The Youth Crisis Is Really About the Rise of the NEETs"

"This Labor Market Isn’t Great for Women, Either"

"Yes, Cash Grants Do Help Families in Poverty"

"When a Downturn Comes, Will Republicans Acknowledge It?"

"Venus Williams Exposed All That's Wrong With Health Insurance"

"The Bureau of Labor Statistics is Not The Problem"

"The Texas Economy Ain't All That"

"Statistics and Politics Don't Mix"

"The Republican Budget Bill is an Economy Killer"

"The Republican Budget Bill is Extreme on Immigration, Too"

"The GOP Budget Bill is Creating a Republican Existential Crisis"

"Why Medicaid Work Requirements Won’t Work"

"The GOP Tax Bill Ignores Decades of Economic Research"

"The GOP’s Tax Bill Is Exactly Wrong for This Economic Moment"

"Tax Evasion or Student Debt? The US Chose the Wrong Crackdown"

"America, Our Long Inflation Nightmare Is Over — for Now"

"Social Security is Protection from Volatility"

"The Coming Recession Will Be Self-Inflicted" 

"DOGE Just Might Usher In New Era of Big Government" 

"How to Revive America's 'Golden Middle’" 

"Fixing Child Care Requires a Plan That Republicans Reject" 

"House Republicans’ Budget Plan Gets Poverty All Wrong" 

"Americans Would Pay Higher Taxes to Save Social Security" 

"Undocumented Immigrants Are Well Documented. Just Ask the IRS." 

"Economists Know What Trump's Gender Order Will Bring" 

"The American Worker Has Lost All Leverage" 

"Don’t Let the Data Fool You: The US Is Failing Working Women" 

"The Future of the Middle Class Is ‘Low-Skilled’ Work"

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Bloomberg, 2024

"The Wrath of DOGE Is Coming for Federal Workers"

"The Influencer Economy Exposes a 70-Year Problem for Women"

"Republicans Have a Warped Sense of Work Ethic"

"The IRS Shows What Government Efficiency Really Looks Like"

"Musk's Efficiency Department is Highly Inefficient"

"23 Nobel Laureates Can't Be Wrong About Trump"

"Universal Pre-K Is Worth the Cost. Now We Have Proof."

"When Brett Favre is a Welfare Queen, Something is Wrong"

"The Jobs Numbers Don't Lie, but Politicians Do"

"Private Equity Will Trigger a Child Care Crisis"

"Harris's Child Care Plan is Flawed"

"Make Social Security the Model to Fix the Minimum Wage"

"Want Cheaper Grocery Bills? Give Kids Free School Meals"

"Parental Stress is an Underappreciated Drag on the Economy"

"Tim Walz Reminds Us of Social Security's True Purpose."

"Cash Welfare Works. Just Don't Call it That."

"America's Fertility Policy Gap is Bad Economics"

"Women are America's Working Class Now"

"America's Conservative Fiscal Hawks Have Flown the Coop"

"Quality Child Care for $15 a Day? We Can Do It!"

"The US Housing Crisis is Really About Low-Wage Jobs."

"Applying for a Job Shouldn't Be Humiliating."

"America's Tax Cut Era Must Come to an End."

"When Children Die Working, Here's Whom to Blame."

"After Exposing Realtor, Eliminate the Mortgage Interest Deduction."

"Marry Rich. That’s the Republican Plan for Moms."

"America Blew Almost $2 Trillion. Make It Stop."

"Investing in Kids Pays, Even If Mom Is on Drugs."

"Americans' Working Years Deserve a Better Ending."

"Baby Boomers Should Get Behind Paid Leave."

"Nice Soft Landing, America. But What Comes Next?"

"The People's Inflation is Still a Big Problem."

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Bloomberg, 2023

"Here's Why Americans Aren't Loving the Economy"

"To Stop the Fiscal Apocalypse, Bet on the Young"

"Exploiting Child Labor Won't Make American Great"

"Use The Estate Tax to Finance Early Childhood Education"

"The Market is Dictating How We Raise Our Kids"

"America is About to Fall Off a Childcare Cliff"

"Soccer's Women Fight for Workers Everywhere"

"Passed Over for a Black Man? The Labor Market Disagrees" 

"Student Debt, America's Avoidable Disaster."

"Forget Inflation. The US Economy Has Bigger Problems."

"Who Deserves Welfare? That's the Wrong Question."

"Unemployment Insurance Is Stuck in 1935."

"The US Labor Market's Best Just Isn't Good Enough."

"Child Care has Failed. The Government Can Help."

"Policymakers, Check Your Presumptuousness"

"US Companies Aren't Firing Like They Used To"

"When Will US Workers Get Paid Family Leave? Try 2035"

"The Job Market Struggles to Solve the Recession Puzzle"

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Bloomberg, 2022

"America is Choosing to Keep Children in Poverty"

"Yet Again, American isn't Ready for a Recession"

"Mass Long-Covid Disability Threatens the Economy"

"Working Moms' Winter Math is Getting Tougher"

"Got a Labor Shortage? Make it Easier to Work"

"The 'Right To Life' Will End Up Killing Women"

"Is a Recession Coming? Beware of This Indicator"

"Amazon Aside, Workers are Struggling to Regain Power"

"Poor Single Mothers Need Money, Not Husbands"

"America's Endangered Solution to Child Poverty"

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Wall Street Journal

"How to Explain This Weird Job Market"

 

Barron's

"Job Openings are at a Record High, Why Aren't People Going Back to Work?"

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New York Times

"America Can Find a Smarter Way to Help Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs"

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Washington Post

"The Pandemic is Completely Changing the Way We Treat Unemployment"

 

LA Times

"There are Racial Disparities in American Unemployment Benefits. That's By Design"

"Millions Need Unemployment Benefits. Unfortunately, the Delivery System is Broken"

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Dallas Morning News

"What MLMs and Stay-at-home Moms Reveal About the Labor Market"

"Should Mothers Work? We've Been Asking the Wrong Question"

"Women are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers"

 

Ms. Magazine

"Supporting Working Parents Could Accelerate Recovery"

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Promarket

"A $2.5 Trillion Question: What if Incomes Grew Like GDP Did?"

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United Press International

"Working Moms at Risk of Being Left Behind in Economic Recovery"

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RAND Blog

"Recovered by Not Whole: US Jobs Rebounded, But Not For Everyone"

"How the Coronavirus Changed the Child Care Debate"

"Covid-19 Gave Managers a Look at Our Home Lives. Will They Now Penalize Women?"

"A Bell That Can't Be Unrung: The CARES Act and Unemployment Insurance"

"Unemployment Insurance and the Failure to Reform"

"Without Unemployment Benefits, How Might Americans Make Ends Meet?"

"Will States Take the Wrong Lesson About Unemployment Insurance's Failings?"

"Sitting it Out? Or Pushed Out? Women are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers"

"For Leisure and Hospitality Workers, Weak Recovery Still Looks Like Recession"

"What Unemployment Statistics Obscure About Temporary Layoffs"

"Is the US Stuck with a Fixed Add On for Unemployment Insurance"

"The Racial Disparity in Unemployment Benefits"

"Is the Unemployment Rate Now Higher Than it was in the Great Depression?"
 

Video

TV Appearances

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"Trump Says He'll Fire Fed's Cook if She Doesn't Resign" Bloomberg

"Venus Williams Exposed Health Insurance Defects" Bloomberg

"Approaching another Trump trade deadline" Bloomberg

"Rate Cuts Won't Fix Housing Affordability" Yahoo Finance

"A Look At Both Campaigns' Economic Proposals" Bloomberg

"US Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Since Jan" Bloomberg

"Edwards Says the US is On Borrowed Time" Bloomberg

"Is the Fed Going to 6%?" Bloomberg

"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

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Recorded Panel Events

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"From Crisis to Care: Reimagining Childcare as Public Infrastructure"  

Panelist, The Roosevelt Institute

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"Investing the Workforce Behind the Workforce"  

Keynote Speaker, Early Learning Investment Coalition and Early Childhood Education Caucus
Pennsylvania State Legislature

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"The Economics of Child Care"  

Keynote Speaker, Child Care for Connecticut

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"14th Annual Sandra J Skolnik Lecture on Early Childhood Education & Advocacy"  

Keynote Speaker, Maryland Family Network

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"Future of Wealth Discussion Series: Reimagining How Retirement Savings Can Build Wealth for Everybody"  

Panelist, The Aspen Institute.

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"Ever Wanted to Ask an Economist About Retirement?"  

Sole Panelist, The National Institute on Retirement Security.

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"Hearing on Expanding on the Success of the 2017 Tax Relief to Help Hardworking Americans"  

Witness, United States House of Representatives, Ways and Means Committee.

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"Over the Funding Cliff: America's Child Care Industry in the Absence of Federal Relief Dollars"  

Panelist, The Hunt Institute.

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"Aging Americans and a Waning Workforce:  Demographic Drivers of our Deficit" 

Witness, United States Joint Economic Committee. 

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"Child Care Since the Pandemic: Macroeconomic Impacts of Public Policy Measures" 

Witness, United States Senate, Subcommittee on Economic Policy. 

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"Where Did All The Workers Go?"

Panelist, Barron's Roundtable

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"Toward an Inclusive Recovery: Understanding and Empowering Women's Economic Participation" 

Panelist, Federal Reserve Community Development Research Seminar

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"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

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Spoken

Podcast Guest
 

"It Looks Like the ‘Vibecession’ Had It Right" Everybody's Business

"Ugly August Jobs Report Rattles Wall Street" Prof G Markets

"Let's Tell Congress: When it Comes to Child Development, They Need to Go Big or Go Home" Politics for Parents​

"Trump’s Rage Erupts as Inflation Rises and His Pollster Openly Panics" The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

"ICE Raids, Expensive Cheap Food and a Venomous Black Market" Everybody's Business

"Job Numbers, Inflation & Your Wallet With Economist Kathryn Edwards" Her Money

"Fox News Suddenly Admits to Major Trump Failure amid Fresh DOGE Fiasco" The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

"Warning Signs from the Labor Market" Prof G Markets

"Talking Tariffs and Trade Wars with Grace Blakeley and and Kathryn Edwards" The Money With Katie Show

"Unwell Trump Rages Wildly at Many Targets as GOP Starts Turning on Him" The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

"Why Economist Kathryn Edwards is Optimistic About America’s Future" The Money With Katie Show

"Is a Recession Coming?" Her Money

"How is the US Economy Really Doing? What You Need To Know For 2025" Her Money

"The Summer Camp Economy" Camp Wire

"Vote4 Social Security" You Earned This

"Too Broke For Breakfast" Debt Heads

"Let's Child Care Together" The Weeds

"Let's Fix Retirement Together" The Weeds

"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

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Radio Appearances 

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Here&Now

"Gender pay gap grows as wages of women backslide"

"Rich Spending Papers Over Economy Issues"

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The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC

"Tariff Chaos"

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Marketplace

"The BLS has a $700 million budget. What's its ROI?"

"All labor markets are local"

"An economic mirage of sorts?" 

"To save federal dollars, crack down on tax cheats rather than student loans, says economist" 

"Special Coverage from Marketplace: Selling America" 

"Why the Labor Market is Standing Over a Cliff"

"What's the Difference Between PPI and CPI?"

"Wage Gains After Changing Jobs Lower in April"

"The Cost of Income Inequality"

"Sunbelt cities top the list of booming U.S. job markets"

"Pandemic-era retirements have left a gap in the labor force"

"Uneven state unemployment rates show different recovery arcs"

"Why hasn’t Congress fixed unemployment insurance?"

"Unemployment insurance is broken. What would it take to fix it?"

"Continuing unemployment claims, explained"

"Laid-off workers are leaving unemployment benefits on the table"

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Indicator from Planet Money

"What are Harris's Economic Plans?"

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Bloomberg Opinion

"Human Rights in El Salvador and Race in Hiring"

"Airline Mergers and Health Worker Concerns"

"Alibaba's Shakeup and Rethinking College"

"The Cure to Bank Runs and the AM Radio Quagmire"​

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All Things Considered

"Why The Pandemic Is Forcing So Many Women To Leave Their Jobs"

"How record inflation is affecting different people"

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Skimm This

"Sign of the Times: Inflation Cooling, Nuclear Fusion, SBF Arrested"

"Both Sides Now: Recession Fears, VP Harris on Abortion, Heat Waves"

"Time Machine: Roe v. Wade and Recession Fears"

"‘Female-Led Recession’: How Economists Think Unemployment Will Impact Women and Minorities"

"The She-Cession: Policy Crisis Meets Reality"

"New Year, New You, New Impeachment"

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