For the first time on the program I will talk with author and a co-founder of Mother Jones, Adam Hochschild. Adam will be on the the program to mark the 94th anniversary of the end of WWI (last Sunday) with a discussion of his book on the war: To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. In particular I will discuss the great lengths and casualties the elites on both sides of that war were willing to sustain to maintain their primacy and what we may learn from this as our elites face a rising challenge from China.
My second guest will be one of my favorite people on economic issues, Dr. Sylvia Allegretto who 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.
