Biography
Valerie Rawlston Wilson is director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE), a nationally recognized source for expert reports and policy analyses on the economic condition of America’s people of color. Prior to joining EPI, Wilson was an economist and vice president of research at the National Urban League Washington Bureau, where she was responsible for planning and directing the bureau’s research agenda. She has written extensively on various issues impacting economic inequality in the United States—including employment and training, income and wealth disparities, access to higher education, and social insurance—and has also appeared in print, television, and radio media. In 2010, through the State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs, she was selected to deliver the keynote address at an event on Minority Economic Empowerment at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. In 2011, Wilson served on a National Academies Panel on Measuring and Collecting Pay Information from U.S. Employers by Gender, Race, and National Origin.
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The rise in child poverty reveals racial inequality, more than a failed War on Poverty
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Countries investing more in social programs have less child poverty
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Valerie Wilson on the Economic Inequality Gap for African Americans
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Environmental Racism
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50 years after the riots: Continued economic inequality for African Americans
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50 years after the Kerner Commission: African Americans are better off in many ways but are still disadvantaged by racial inequality
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Working harder or finding it harder to work: Demographic trends in annual work hours show an increasingly fractured workforce
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Racial inequalities in wages, income, and wealth show that MLK’s work remains unfinished
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2016 ACS shows stubbornly high Native American poverty and different degrees of economic well-being for Asian ethnic groups
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Little to no gain in median annual earnings in the 2000s, while significant wage gaps remain
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New census data show strong 2016 earnings growth across-the-board, with black and Hispanic workers seeing the fastest growth for second consecutive year
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Repeal of pay transparency rule will make it easier to discriminate against women and people of color
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Black women have to work 7 months into 2017 to be paid the same as white men in 2016
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The black unemployment rate returns to historic low, but not really
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African American women stand out as working moms play a larger economic role in families
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Low-wage African American workers have increased annual work hours most since 1979
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News from EPI › EPI applauds the appointment of Raphael Bostic to lead the Atlanta Fed
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Black workers’ wages have been harmed by both widening racial wage gaps and the widening productivity-pay gap
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African Americans are paid less than whites at every education level
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September Fed decision was the right one for communities of color
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Black-white wage gaps expand with rising wage inequality
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New Census data show strong 2015 earnings growth across the board, with black and Hispanic workers seeing the fastest growth
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Making the Federal Reserve Fully Public: Why and How
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Economic recovery for black and Latino workers expands to more states in the second quarter of 2016
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Black women’s wages are no longer gaining ground on white men’s, and they’re falling further behind white women’s
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People of color will be a majority of the American working class in 2032: What this means for the effort to grow wages and reduce inequality
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State unemployment rates by race and ethnicity at the start of 2016 show a plodding recovery, with some states continuing to lag behind