Biography
Chandra Childers is a senior policy and economic analyst with the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) at EPI. Her work is primarily focused on supporting EARN’s state and local policy research and advocacy network in the Southern United States. Childers is committed to economic justice and ensuring that all workers have a voice in their workplaces and that they experience real economic security independent of race, sex, or economic status. Using an intersectional lens, her research focuses on employment, earnings, job quality, and worker power.
Before joining the EARN team at EPI, Childers was a Study Director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, where her work focused on occupational segregation, the gender wage gap, and Black, Hispanic, and Native American women’s access to good jobs that pay well, provide benefits, and ensure economic security for them, their families, and their communities.
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Washington in Seattle
M.S., Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University
M.A., Sociology, Texas Tech University
B.A., Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University.
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Southern economic policies undermine job quality for auto workers: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight
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Southern policymakers leave workers with lower wages and a fraying safety net: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Three
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Breaking down the South’s economic underperformance: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Two
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Alabama’s and Maryland’s similar Black unemployment rates mask major differences in labor market conditions
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Operation Dixie failed 78 years ago. Are today’s Southern workers about to change all that?
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Waffle House strike highlights the harms of the Southern economic development model
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The evolution of the Southern economic development strategy: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part One
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Rooted in racism and economic exploitation: The failed Southern economic development model
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The expiration of pandemic-era public assistance measures fueled poverty increases in the majority of states (Corrected)
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Two years later, American Rescue Plan funds are still a transformative resource: State and local governments—particularly in the South—should invest unspent funds in workers, families, and communities
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Household incomes have fallen since 2019 despite growth in workers’ earnings
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State policy solutions for good home health care jobs—nearly half held by Black women in the South—should address the legacy of racism, sexism, and xenophobia in the workforce