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We're halfway into 2021 and the SCEPA communitypast and presenthave already taken on so many new roles! Congrats to Kate Bahn for her new role at Washington Center for Equitable Growth; Heather Boushey for her new role on the White House Council of Economic Advisers; Ismael Cid Martinez on his new role at the Joint Economic Committee Democrats; Kyle K. Moore for his new role at Economic Policy Institute; Michelle Holder for her new role as President and CEO of Washington Ce...nter for Equitable Growth; And last but certainly not least, William Rodgers for his new role at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis! See more

"These findings are particularly timely as governments worldwide are looking for ways to recover and rebuild from the devastating impacts of COVID-19. In preparing for a post-COVID world, it is essential for countries to achieve lasting economic growth without degrading the environment or aggravating inequality. " Learn which fiscal policies a team of The New School economistsled by the Director of SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change project Willi Semmler, recommend in their recent World Bank report. http://ow.ly/ef8550Fm25s

Read Associate Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research, Sanjay Reddy's paper on the prospects for poverty reduction by 2030. It analyzes data to show the adverse impact the Covid crisis has had and concludes the initiative is unlikely to be achieved: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3537705

Watch Associate Director of SCEPA's Retirement Equity Lab Siavash Radpour join PBS Books to discuss the structural problems in our retirement system that inhibit equitable and sustainable savings and wealth building.

"Economic analysis needs to rediscover the social nature of economic processes and the analytical need for explicitly social categories that can grapple with realities of social oppression." Associate Professor Paulo Dos Santos & The New School for Social Research Alum Noé Wiener write why and how the economics profession must change in Developing Economics. http://ow.ly/kDNv50Fk9ZB

"Firms need more than a formula..." Associate Professor of Economics Sanjay Reddywith a team of chemical engineersargue what's needed alongside patent waivers to create a 'public option' vaccine. The team concludes governments must encourage companies to share production methods and cooperate globally to facilitate scaling procedures such as copying exactly as well as to address supply bottlenecks. LSE School of Public Policy http://ow.ly/rhEH50Fk8XG

Congratulations to SCEPA Senior Fellow William Rodgers on his new role at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis as the inaugural director of their Institute for Economic Equity! The Institute aims to promote a more equitable economy for the Fed’s Eighth District communities and beyond. Read more here: http://ow.ly/zKgj50FkcLQ

Watch SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci's testimony from this week before the Congressional Committee on Education & Labor at their hearing "Examining Pathways to Build a Stronger, More Inclusive Retirement System." http://ow.ly/MPue50Ffl2y

Congratulations to SCEPA Senior Fellow Michelle Holder on her new position as president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth! We're excited another The New School for Social Research Alum & SCEPA Senior Fellow will fill the seat and can't wait to see all the good Michelle's leadership will do to reduce economic inequality. ... (Photo via Washington Center for Equitable Growth)

Happy to see SCEPA Senior Fellow Stephanie Kelton is speaking at TED Monterey, which is back in person with the theme, "The Case for Optimism." Read about Stephanie and the other speakers here: https://tedmonterey2021.ted.com/speakers

Have you met our newest ReLab Research Assistant? Barbara Schuster is a PhD student in economics at The New School for Social Research who received her MSc & BSc at the University of Economics and Business in Vienna. Her research focuses on feminist economics, labor economics and gender issues.

Today @ 3 Watch SCEPA Faculty Fellow Darrick Hamilton's discussion, "Juneteenth 2021: The Question of Freedom." Associate Professor of Politics Deva Woodley & Chief Diversity Officer Melanie Hart of The New School will join him to discuss the legacy of Juneteenth & status of Black Americans.

"Older workers without a college degree are losing ground mainly due to a difference in job prospects" SCEPA Research Associate Owen Davis and principle author of our latest report, speaks with AARP about the data and early retirements among less-educated workershttps://www.aarp.org//i/work-from-home-jobs-no-degree.html

The SCEPA staff is off today in observance of #Juneteenth. To honor the lives of the freed and non-freed slaves, we acknowledge all the work we have left to do, starting with SCEPA Alum Kyle K. Moore's push to shift narratives around racial disparities via the Economic Policy Institute.

"It's important to remember as Americans head into the post-election period...this is really only a set of tactics available to parties of power, that is to say to parties in office." In our latest video, The New School for Social Research Associate Professor of Politics Jessica Pisano, talks with us about what election manipulation methods popularized in Eastern Europe can tell us about #Election2020 http://ow.ly/R7FL50CbGtw

From economic insecurities to existing structural systems to fiscal pressure tactics, Associate Professor of Politics Jessica Pisano at The New School for Social Research and SCEPA's John Irons discuss what to look for in the #Election2020 vote count ahead. The two explore voter manipulation methods in Eastern Europe to examine how the U.S. government could do the same. http://ow.ly/FLxT50C6tZQ

#ICYMI here's a clip from our talk with The New School for Social Research's Associate Professor of Politics Jessica Pisano and SCEPA's John Irons about oft-used voter manipulation tactics based on her research in Eastern Europe, and what to be on the look out for in the U.S. #Election2020 next week. Watch the full video here: http://ow.ly/FLxT5

Watch Associate Professor of Politics Jessica Pisano at The New School for Social Research and SCEPA Visiting Scholar John Irons discuss trends and tactics of voter manipulation from a material perspective & what to be on the lookout for in the upcoming #USelection. https://www.economicpolicyresearch.org//election-fraud-dis

New paper from The New School for Social Research PhD candidate Andreas Lichtenberger and the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies Public Economy Director June Sekera finds that commercial carbon dioxide removal is often counterproductive and argues it should be a public service instead.

'This is the first time since the mid-1970s we see this gap persist for this long,' said SCEPA's Owen Davis, the primary author of the study." Forbes's piece on our new findings that older workers' have higher unemployment than mid-career workers for the first time in nearly 50 years, notes their slower recovery could be the result of age discrimination as employers seek to eliminate higher cost employees. Our Director Teresa Ghilarducci points to the erosion of unions as a contributing factor.

#ICYMI here's a clip from our #SCEPAResponds video with Senior Fellow Laura Carvalho on pre-pandemic policies in Brazil and the U.S. and how theywhen agitated by the viruscreated disproportionate infection rates among non-white and low income groups. http://ow.ly/wfaS50BDz8Y

Excited to share new research by SCEPA RA Owen Davis and Siavash Radpour. Unemployment gap between older workers and mid-career workers flips - a first in 50 years. Older workers lost jobs faster and returned to work slower than mid-career workers, pointing to a slower recovery for older workers. http://ow.ly/X68n50BRDqr

"The economic debate [is] always so technical and pushes people away and that’s part of the problem in terms of why our policies are decided behind closed doors,"Laura Carvalho discusses the importance of demystifying economics for the public in our latest episode of #SCEPAResponds. http://ow.ly/wfaS50BDz8Y

"The pandemic seems to be exacerbating labor market inequalities that were there before the virus." SCEPA Senior Fellow Rick McGahey discusses why pandemic or no pandemic labor policies must restore power to workers especially among low wage, Black, and women workers.

In addition to her paper on inequality and COVID, we learned about some of the other work keeping The New School for Social Research alum and SCEPA Senior Fellow Laura Carvalho, busy since her PhD program in our latest #SCEPAResponds. http://ow.ly/wfaS50BDz8Y New School Alumni

Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell cautioned Congress that, too-little policy support would lead to a weak recovery. SCEPA Senior Fellow Rick McGahey explains what another government stimulus could help alleviate including persistent, increasingly permanent unemployment and closure of small businesses to make the case for Congress heeding Powell's warning.

"The pandemic actually started with the elites who were traveling abroad, etc." says SCEPA Senior Fellow Laura Carvalho. Then "while it was spreading, social vulnerability started to play even more of a role." See the full interview on inequality and its effect on the spread of COVID-19 in our latest episode of #SCEPAResponds. http://ow.ly/wfaS50BDz8Y

SCEPA Senior Fellows and The New School for Social Research alumnae Heather Boushey and Stephanie Kelton's progressive economic research mentioned in the Financial Times article about Biden's economic platform. https://www.ft.com/con/5bd190f5-9c0f-49bf-8a11-0dc9c18c991e