Authors

Alyssa Davis Alyssa Davis

Alyssa Davis is a research assistant at the Economic Policy Institute. You can follow her on Twitter @alyssalynn7.

Sep 4, 2015

Elise Gould Elise Gould

Elise Gould is a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. Her research areas include wages, poverty, inequality, economic mobility and health care. You can follow her on…

Sep 4, 2015

Geoffrey Baym Geoffrey Baym

Geoffrey Baym is Professor and Chair of the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University.  A former broadcast journalist, he is the author of the award-winning F…

Sep 3, 2015

Rosie Flores Rosie Flores

Rosie Flores is an activist Mom.

Sep 2, 2015

Margo Jefferson Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson, the author of Negroland and On Michael Jackson, is a professor of writing at Columbia University.

Sep 1, 2015

Alice Slater Alice Slater

Alice Slater is the New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War.

Aug 31, 2015

Matthieu Aikins Matthieu Aikins

Matthieu Aikins is the Schell Fellow at The Nation Institute. His reporting from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Libya has appeared in magazines like Harper’s, Rolling Ston…

Aug 28, 2015

Laura Tuggle Laura Tuggle

Laura Tuggle is the executive director of Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, a civil legal aid organization.

Aug 27, 2015

Jarvis Deberry Jarvis Deberry

Jarvis DeBerry is an editorial writer at NOLA.com | The Times-Picyaune in New Orleans.

Aug 27, 2015

The Lens The Lens

The Lens is the New Orleans area’s first nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest newsroom, dedicated to unique in-depth reporting projects, as well as exclusive daily stories. Our m…

Aug 26, 2015

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