Larry Mishel's guest appearances

Larry Mishel

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Yuval Harari

Andrew Yang

Howard Schultz

Matt Stoller

Kevin Kelly

Yuval Noah Harari

Naomi Klein

Thomas Friedman

Mariana Mazzucato

Binyamin Appelbaum

Daron Acemoglu

Anat Admati

Gabriel Zucman

Chris Arnade

Luigi Zingales

OwlTail

Josh Bivens

Radical and rising economic inequality is no secret — and now, thanks to new research from the Economic Policy Institute, neither is its price tag nor its cause. There’s never been a study quite like this — one which places specific, real dollar amounts on every trickle-down policy American politicians have embraced. The study’s authors, Larry Mishel and Josh Bivens, explain how their work  reveals that the massive upward redistribution of income our nation has suffered these past four decades can largely be attributed to policies intentionally designed to suppress the wages of American workers.  Lawrence Mishel is a distinguished fellow at EPI after serving as president from 2002-2017. In the more than three decades he has been with EPI, Mishel has helped build it into the nation’s premier research organization focused on U.S. living standards and labor markets. Twitter: @LarryMishelJosh Bivens is the director of research at EPI. His areas of research include macroeconomics, fiscal and monetary policy, the economics of globalization, social insurance, and public investment. Twitter: @joshbivens_DCMiddle-class pay lost pace. Is Washington to blame? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/business/economy/middle-class-pay.html Identifying the policy levers generating wage suppression and wage inequality: https://www.epi.org/unequalpower/publications/wage-suppression-inequality/ Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/Twitter: @PitchforkEconInstagram: @pitchforkeconomicsNick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

Radical and rising economic inequality is no secret — and now, thanks to new research from the Economic Policy Institute, neither is its price tag nor its cause. There’s never been a study quite like this — one which places specific, real dollar amounts on every trickle-down policy American politicians have embraced. The study’s authors, Larry Mishel and Josh Bivens, explain how their work  reveals that the massive upward redistribution of income our nation has suffered these past four decades can largely be attributed to policies intentionally designed to suppress the wages of American workers.  Lawrence Mishel is a distinguished fellow at EPI after serving as president from 2002-2017. In the more than three decades he has been with EPI, Mishel has helped build it into the nation’s premier research organization focused on U.S. living standards and labor markets.  Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryMishel?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@LarryMishel</a> Josh Bivens is the director of research at EPI. His areas of research include macroeconomics, fiscal and monetary policy, the economics of globalization, social insurance, and public investment.  Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/joshbivens_dc?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@joshbivens_DC</a> Middle-class pay lost pace. Is Washington to blame? <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/business/economy/middle-class-pay.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/business/economy/middle-class-pay.html</a> Identifying the policy levers generating wage suppression and wage inequality: <a href="https://www.epi.org/unequalpower/publications/wage-suppression-inequality/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.epi.org/unequalpower/publications/wage-suppression-inequality/</a> Website: <a href="http://pitchforkeconomics.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://pitchforkeconomics.com/</a>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/PitchforkEcon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@PitchforkEcon</a>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pitchforkeconomics/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@pitchforkeconomics</a>Nick’s twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/nickhanauer?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@NickHanauer</a>

How U.S. policy was designed to suppress wages (with Larry Mishel and Josh Bivens)

David Rolf

Not so long ago, economic growth was shared widely among Americans thanks to a suite of policies that boosted the bargaining power of workers. In recent years, employer power has increased while worker powers have been significantly eroded—and as a result, income inequality has grown at record rates. Experts David Rolf and Larry Mishel explain how this collapse of worker power came to be, and offer solutions that will tilt the scales of power back in the right direction.David Rolf is a labor leader, organizer, writer, and speaker working to build the next American labor movement. He is the founder and President Emeritus of SEIU 775 and a former Vice President of SEIU International. He led campaigns that helped organize hundreds of thousands of minimum-wage home care workers, and helped lead the nation’s first two successful campaigns for $15 minimum wages in SeaTac and Seattle.Twitter: @DavidMRolfLarry Mishel is a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute after serving as president from 2002-2017, where he has helped build it into the nation’s premier research organization focused on U.S. living standards and labor markets. Mishel has co-authored all 12 editions of ‘The State of Working America’, and has written extensively on wage and job quality trends in the United States.Twitter: @LarryMishelFurther reading: https://tcf.org/content/report/roadmap-rebuilding-worker-power/?session=1https://www.epi.org/publication/what-labor-market-changes-have-generated-inequality-and-wage-suppression-employer-power-is-significant-but-largely-constant-whereas-workers-power-has-been-eroded-by-policy-actions/https://psmag.com/economics/what-caused-the-decline-of-unions-in-america

Not so long ago, economic growth was shared widely among Americans thanks to a suite of policies that boosted the bargaining power of workers. In recent years, employer power has increased while worker powers have been significantly eroded—and as a result, income inequality has grown at record rates. Experts David Rolf and Larry Mishel explain how this collapse of worker power came to be, and offer solutions that will tilt the scales of power back in the right direction.David Rolf is a labor leader, organizer, writer, and speaker working to build the next American labor movement. He is the founder and President Emeritus of SEIU 775 and a former Vice President of SEIU International. He led campaigns that helped organize hundreds of thousands of minimum-wage home care workers, and helped lead the nation’s first two successful campaigns for $15 minimum wages in SeaTac and Seattle.Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMRolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@DavidMRolf</a>Larry Mishel is a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute after serving as president from 2002-2017, where he has helped build it into the nation’s premier research organization focused on U.S. living standards and labor markets. Mishel has co-authored all 12 editions of ‘The State of Working America’, and has written extensively on wage and job quality trends in the United States.Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryMishel?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@LarryMishel</a>Further reading: <a href="https://tcf.org/content/report/roadmap-rebuilding-worker-power/?session=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tcf.org/content/report/roadmap-rebuilding-worker-power/?session=1</a><a href="https://www.epi.org/publication/what-labor-market-changes-have-generated-inequality-and-wage-suppression-employer-power-is-significant-but-largely-constant-whereas-workers-power-has-been-eroded-by-policy-actions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.epi.org/publication/what-labor-market-changes-have-generated-inequality-and-wage-suppression-employer-power-is-significant-but-largely-constant-whereas-workers-power-has-been-eroded-by-policy-actions/</a><a href="https://psmag.com/economics/what-caused-the-decline-of-unions-in-america" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://psmag.com/economics/what-caused-the-decline-of-unions-in-america</a>

The decline of worker power (with David Rolf and Larry Mishel)