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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News from EPI › Jobs report provides more evidence that the Fed should alter its course and not raise rates
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Will we see signs of stronger wage growth?
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News from EPI › Strong jobs report continues positive trend that began in 2010
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Latina workers have to work 10 months into 2018 to be paid the same as white non-Hispanic men in 2017
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News from EPI › Back-to-school jobs report shows a continue shortfall in public education jobs
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Keeping an eye on the teacher jobs gap
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America’s slow-motion wage crisis: Four decades of slow and unequal growth
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Black workers have made no progress in closing earnings gaps with white men since 2000
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Household income growth slowed markedly in 2017 and was stronger for those at the top, while earnings declined slightly
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What to watch for the in the 2017 Census data on earnings, incomes, and poverty
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Keeping a cautiously optimistic eye on wages
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Why is wage growth so slow? It’s not because low-wage jobs are being added disproportionately
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Why is real wage growth anemic? It’s not because of a skills shortage
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Average wage growth continues to flatline in 2018, while low-wage workers and those with relatively lower levels of educational attainment see stronger gains
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News from EPI › Strong job growth combined with flat wage growth provides little evidence for skills shortages
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Public sector jobs are threatened by austerity and attacks on collective bargaining
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Two-thirds of adults have less than a four-year degree: Policymakers should work to make college more attainable for them, but also strengthen labor protections that help all workers
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Class of 2018: High school edition
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News from EPI › Solid jobs report shows an economy marching towards full employment
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Seven facts about tipped workers and the tipped minimum wage
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Signs of stronger wage growth that will eventually improve Americans’ livings standards
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50 years after the Poor People’s Campaign, poverty persists because of a stingy safety net and a dysfunctional labor market
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Poverty persists 50 years after the Poor People’s Campaign: Black poverty rates are more than twice as high as white poverty rates
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Class of 2018: College edition
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News from EPI › Unemployment rate hits new low for the recovery, but for the wrong reasons
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Stronger wage growth as labor market slack continues to decline
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Equal Pay Day is a reminder that you can’t mansplain away the gender pay gap
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News from EPI › Swings in the weather lead to swings in employment
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Multiple measures indicate the presence of labor market slack
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Between 2013 and 2017, wage growth at the bottom was strongest in states with minimum wage increases