Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families.

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conducted research on wages and employment, gender and racial wage inequalities, and social policy. Her current research is on welfare reform. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York City. Chauna Brocht is a policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute. Her research focuses on poverty measurement, low-wage labor markets, and living wage and minimum wage analysis. She coordinates EPI’s outreach program and provides technical assistance to state and local advocates on living standards issues. She has an M.A. in public policy from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. Bethney Gundersen is a research fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. Her current research interests include the effect of labor unions and union organizing on the working poor. She has also conducted research on the impact of welfare reform on rural areas and American Indian reservations. She received her masters in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and is a doctoral candidate in social work there. Jared Bernstein is a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute. His areas of research include income and wage inequality, technology’s impact on wages and employment,

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