Areas of expertise
Wages • Poverty • Jobs • Health care • Economic mobility
Biography
Elise Gould joined EPI in 2003. Her research areas include wages, poverty, inequality, economic mobility and health care. She is a co-author of The State of Working America, 12th Edition. Gould authored a chapter on health in The State of Working America 2008/09; co-authored a book on health insurance coverage in retirement; published in venues such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Challenge Magazine, and Tax Notes; and written for academic journals including Health Economics, Health Affairs, Journal of Aging and Social Policy, Risk Management & Insurance Review, Environmental Health Perspectives, and International Journal of Health Services. Gould has been quoted by a variety of news sources, including Bloomberg, NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and her opinions have appeared on the op-ed pages of USA Today and The Detroit News. She has testified before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Maryland Senate Finance and House Economic Matters committees, the New York City Council, and the District of Columbia Council.
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Master of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
B.A., Sociology, Wesleyan University
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Hires up, layoffs down but more economic pain is on the horizon: Policymakers must act in order to protect workers’ health and economic well-being
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News from EPI › Two months of gains, but a huge jobs deficit remains, and deepening pain is on the horizon: Congress needs to act
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What to watch on jobs day: A false start to the recovery
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The U.S. economy remains in an enormous jobs deficit: The labor market was down 15.9 million jobs at the end of April (JOLTS data), and down 19.6 million at the middle of May (jobs data)
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News from EPI › While welcome gains, job losses since February still total 19.6 million: Now is not the time to stop providing relief
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What to watch on jobs day: The unemployment rate continues to climb but not equally for all demographic groups
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Public education job losses in April are already greater than in all of the Great Recession
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Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—racism and economic inequality
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Latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey data further illustrate the catastrophic COVID-19 labor market
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What to watch for in tomorrow’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey data release: A sharp fall in job openings and hires
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News from EPI › A waking nightmare: Today’s jobs report shows 20.5 million jobs lost in April
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What to watch on jobs day: Job losses in April may set U.S. employment levels back 20 years
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Unemployment filing failures: New survey confirms that millions of jobless were unable to file an unemployment insurance claim
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Women have been hit hard by the coronavirus labor market: Their story is worse than industry-based data suggest
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News from EPI › 16.8 million apply for unemployment benefits in three weeks: The labor market has been upended.
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News from EPI › March’s huge job losses are just the tip of the iceberg of what’s to come
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Which data to watch and not watch this week: Watch Thursday’s unemployment insurance claims, not Friday’s jobs day numbers
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Older workers can’t work from home and are at a higher risk for COVID-19
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Without fast action from Congress, low-wage workers will be ineligible for unemployment benefits during the coronavirus crisis
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The unemployment rate is not the right measure to make economic policy decisions around the coronavirus-driven recession: Policymakers should use the employment rate to continue or stop economic assistance
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Not everybody can work from home: Black and Hispanic workers are much less likely to be able to telework
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Senate coronavirus bill is crucial—but it’s a fraction of what’s needed
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COVID-19 pandemic makes clear that we need national paid sick leave legislation
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Union workers are more likely to have paid sick days and health insurance: COVID-19 sheds light on least-empowered workers
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Amid COVID-19 outbreak, the workers who need paid sick days the most have the least
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News from EPI › Calm before the storm: Solid jobs report shows no signs of the impending impact of COVID-19
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What to watch on jobs day: Expected future impact of COVID-19
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Low-wage workers saw the biggest wage growth in states that increased their minimum wage between 2018 and 2019
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Lack of paid sick days and large numbers of uninsured increase risks of spreading the coronavirus
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Black-white wage gaps are worse today than in 2000