Areas of expertise
Race, ethnicity, and the economy • Discrimination • Education • Public opinion
Biography
Algernon Austin is the former director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE). As the first director of PREE, Austin built the program over six years into a nationally recognized source for expert reports and policy analyses on the economic condition of America’s people of color. He has discussed racial inequality on the “PBS NewsHour,” CNN, the “Tavis Smiley Show,” NPR, and on other nationally syndicated television and radio programs. He is currently writing a book on race and attitudes toward President Obama. Prior to joining the Economic Policy Institute, Austin was a senior fellow at the Dēmos think tank and assistant director of research at the Foundation Center. From 2001 to 2005, he served on the faculty of Wesleyan University.
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University
B.A., Sociology, Wesleyan University
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Do Native Americans Face Discrimination in the Labor Market?
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Native Americans and Jobs: The Challenge and the Promise
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High Unemployment Means Native Americans Are Still Waiting for an Economic Recovery
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Native Americans Are Less Likely to Be Employed Than Whites in Nearly Every State: The Native American-White Jobs Gap Varies by State from 32.7 Percentage Points to 5.1 Percentage Points
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Native Americans Are Still Waiting for an Economic Recovery
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The 1963 March on Washington’s Strategy for Defeating Poverty
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President Obama Recognizes the Economic Demands of the “Unfinished March”
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African Americans are still concentrated in neighborhoods with high poverty and still lack full access to decent housing
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50 years of recessionary-level unemployment in black America
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The Unfinished March: An Overview
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The impact of geography on Asian American poverty
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How Good Jobs Policies Can Reduce the Black-White Wealth Divide
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Infrastructure investments and Latino and African American job creation
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Asian American unemployment highest in Nevada and California; disadvantages in four states
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Unemployment rates are projected to remain high for whites, Latinos, and African Americans throughout 2013
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Inequality and Poverty
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Wages, Incomes and Wealth
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A Social Security cut could lead to higher Latino and black elder poverty
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Latinos lead in insufficient work hours
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The black birth rate converges on the white rate
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Is job creation on Obama’s second-term agenda?
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Transporting black men to good jobs
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Hispanic and single-black-father families see declines in poverty
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For-profit colleges have the poorest students and richest leaders
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High cost and high debt for students at for-profit colleges
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For-profit colleges use taxpayer dollars to recruit vulnerable students, rake in profits
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Infrastructure investments and the Latino jobs recovery
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Another reminder that good regulations save lives
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Black metropolitan unemployment in 2011: Las Vegas’s rate rises significantly
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Hispanic metropolitan unemployment in 2011: Providence, RI, again tops the list