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She returned to EPI in 2017 to lead its policy team and has been a strong advocate for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, known as the PRO Act, testifying in support of it before Congress. “No other legislation being considered could do more to reverse wage stagnation than the PRO Act,” said Shierholz in a HuffPost profile.
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“With a progressive and ambitious administration, this is the moment EPI was created for 35 years ago—a moment when transformative change is possible,” said Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO and interim chair of EPI’s Board of Directors. “Heidi’s vision and depth of experience meets this moment.”
Shierholz succeeds former EPI president Thea M. Lee, who stepped down in May to serve as the deputy undersecretary for international labor affairs in President Biden’s administration. Read the press release | Read Shierholz’s Twitter thread
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Heidi Shierholz named President of the Economic Policy Institute
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‘Other People’s Rotten Jobs Are Bad for Them. And for You.’
“It benefits all of us if the people doing essential work throughout our economy have good jobs, a collective voice and dignified treatment at work,” wrote EPI Senior Fellow Terri Gerstein in an op-ed for the New York Times. “Labor shouldn’t be seen as one more special interest group.” Read the op-ed
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What We Didn’t Know on 9/11
[The 9/11 attacks] distracted everyone’s attention from other looming threats—strategic, political, economic, and especially ecological—that may in the end do us more profound harm than that which was wrought by the terrorists on two airplanes. Read the article
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Country is ready for economic policy that serves working people, says EPI’s new president
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