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Sylvia Allegretto is currently an economist at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley. She co-authored two editions of The State of Working America while working as an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. She joined EPI in 2003 after receiving her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also co-author of two EPI studies, How does teacher pay compare? And The Teaching Penalty: Teacher Pay Losing Ground. Dr. Allegretto’s research interests include economic inequality, unemployment duration, family budgets, low-wage labor markets, the minimum wage, and the sub-minimum wage received by tipped workers.
Sylvia Allegretto joined the Economic Policy Institute in 2003 after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Her areas of interest include income and wage inequality, employment, low-wage labor markets, union organization and collective bargaining.