Biography
Teresa Kroeger is a doctoral student at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, where she is researching policies that affect the lives of socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals and families, those who are subject to gender and racial discrimination, and low- and middle-income workers. As a research assistant at EPI in 2016 and 2017, she worked closely with economists and researchers to analyze trends in the labor market affecting low- and middle-income workers. While at EPI, she specialized in research on gender and racial wage gaps, widespread wage stagnation and inequality, and the employment and wages of young high school and college graduates who are just entering the labor market. Kroeger’s work has been cited by numerous broadcast, radio, print, and online news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the Economic Report of the President. Before joining EPI in 2016, Kroeger conducted research at the American Institutes for Research and the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Education
B.A., Economics and Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz
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The state of graduate student employee unions: Momentum to organize among graduate student workers is growing despite opposition
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How today’s unions help working people: Giving workers the power to improve their jobs and unrig the economy
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Straight out of college, women make about $3 less per hour than men
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Employers steal billions from workers’ paychecks each year: Survey data show millions of workers are paid less than the minimum wage, at significant cost to taxpayers and state economies
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The Class of 2017
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You can’t mansplain away the gender pay gap
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Repealing prevailing wage laws hurts construction workers
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Women can’t educate their way out of the gender wage gap
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19.2 million people—including 7.5 million women—gained health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act
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A tale of two states (and what it tells us about so-called “right-to-work” laws)
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The Obama legacy: creating more, better jobs
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Strong across-the-board wage growth in 2015 for both bottom 90 percent and top 1.0 percent
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Superb income growth in 2015 nearly single-handedly restored incomes lost in the Great Recession
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Hotel housekeepers make the beds but still can’t afford to lie in them
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College degrees are not the solution to stagnating wages or inequality
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Straight out of college, women make $4 less per hour than men—and the gap is getting wider
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The Class of 2016: The labor market is still far from ideal for young graduates