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Stevenson on why it is hard for wages to keep up with inflation

Jun 1, 2026 Marketplace
A lack of job mobility is contributing to wages lagging inflation, comparing the times to 2021 and 2022, when, "the number of job openings swamped the number of people looking to change jobs. Basically anybody who wanted to change jobs could."
Betsey Stevenson
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Stevenson comments on widening gender wage gap

Sep 11, 2025 Marketplace
“We end up in this really difficult spiral where women are paid less than men, so it makes sense for them to be the one to leave work early to pick the kid up from day care,” Stevenson said.  She added that access to affordable childcare and flexible...
Betsey Stevenson
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New Wolfers segment on MSNBC: The Professor Is In!

May 23, 2025
Ford School economics professor Justin Wolfers is one of the most prolific “public” scholars at the school. His analyses about current economic events regularly appear on the pages of The New York Times (among others), on the screens at Bloomberg (am...
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Stevenson says stock market uncertainty may not cause mass layoffs

Apr 17, 2025 Marketplace
As the stock market faces shocks and falls from Trump's tariff policy, Marketplace has turned to the Ford School's Betsey Stevenson for an explanation of what this could mean for American workers. Stevenson told the network, “Layoffs are not the firs...
Betsey Stevenson
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Dominguez on the increasing value of foreign currency

Mar 20, 2025 Marketplace
As the economy prepares for the Trump administration's proposed tariff plan, U.S. goods are becoming less competitive than those from foreign countries. Speaking with Marketplace, the Ford School's Kathryn Dominguez claims this isn't the only challen...
Kathryn Dominguez speaks to prospective students at the Ford School's Spring Preview
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Wolfers comments on public perception of the economy

Mar 10, 2025 Marketplace
“Just because folks say they’re unhappy about the state of the economy, that doesn’t mean much,” said Justin Wolfers, an economics and public policy professor at the Ford School. Speaking with Marketplace, Wolfers asserts that it's important to disti...
Justin Wolfers
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Behind the scenes of the unemployment rate - Stevenson

Feb 18, 2025 Marketplace
The Ford School's Betsey Stevenson spoke with Marketplace on the historically low unemployment rate. Stevenson argued it’s not only a hot labor market that can lead to super-low unemployment: “A low unemployment rate could be associated with a very s...
Stevensom SRM Subcommittee Hearing Teaser Display
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Withholding funding is not reasonable - Bagenstos

Feb 4, 2025 Marketplace
Professor at the Ford School and former General Counsel to the Office of Management and Budget, Samuel Bagenstos said the president "withholding certain funding — including for green energy projects and foreign aid" is not supported by "proper reason...
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Tragically underrated, Stevenson on US Economy in 2024

Dec 31, 2024 Marketplace
Betsey Stevenson, professor at the Ford School, chose "Tragically underrated" as a phrase to be the economist's word of the year. She describes labor force participation, inflation-adjusted wages and more to show how the US economy is the strongest c...
Betsey Stevenson
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Stevenson: disposable income normal after the pandemic

Sep 27, 2024 Marketplace
Ford School professor Betsey Stevenson talked with Marketplace about Americans' disposable income growth and the strength that shows for the economy. Stevenson said "If we look over the last 100 years, sort of averaging 2 to 3% improvements in living...
Betsey Stevenson
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Dominguez on weakening of US dollar

Aug 29, 2024 Marketplace
Kathryn Dominguez, Ford School professor, talked with Marketplace about weakening of the US dollar, which she says is driven by "the anticipation that the [Federal Reserve] is likely to cut interest rates in September." She also said it may be linked...
Kathryn Dominguez speaks to prospective students at the Ford School's Spring Preview
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Ali on Iran's interference in US election

Aug 29, 2024 Marketplace
Ford School professor, Javed Ali, said in response to Iran's attacks on American elections infrastructure, "This is just the latest evolution of what they’ve already been doing for that stretch of time." Ali likened it to what Russia did in 2016 by s...
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Inflation finally below 3%, first time since 2021, Stevenson comments

Aug 21, 2024 Marketplace
Ford School professor and economist, Betsey Stevenson, talked on Marketplace about inflation. She said,  “I think what we learned was that it just took longer for that normalization to happen." While that transition from high inflation to a stable 3%...
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Dominguez explains "maximum employment"

Jul 29, 2024 Marketplace
Ford School professor Kathryn Dominguez talked on market place about what the term "maximum employment" means and what and what it means for our economy. She said “It doesn’t necessarily mean that everybody is employed,” instead, “It means that every...
Kathryn Dominguez speaks to prospective students at the Ford School's Spring Preview
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Hausman discusses the productive impacts of long-distance power lines

May 14, 2024 Marketplace
Recent federal regulations instated a shift to build more long-distance power lines. The Ford School's Catie Hausman has noted some of the benefits that could come of this transition. “We need to integrate more wind and solar, and we need to integrat...
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Dominguez: Yen appreciation not a threat to U.S. economy

Sep 21, 2023 Marketplace
Kathryn Dominguez, Marketplace: If the yen jumps around too much, anyone that wants to trade with Japan might hold off. Supply chains could seize up. Kathryn Dominguez, a professor at the University of Michigan, said this is not the time for that to ...
Kathryn Dominguez speaks to prospective students at the Ford School's Spring Preview
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Shaefer on increase in poverty rate

Sep 13, 2023 Marketplace
Luke Shaefer, Marketplace: “We saw big increases in poverty across every sociodemographic group,” said Luke Shaefer, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. “The biggest was among children. We saw child poverty more than double.”
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Women's workforce participation encouraging - Stevenson

Sep 4, 2023 Marketplace
Betsey Stevenson, Marketplace: “Men’s labor force participation has been growing, but women’s has been growing by just a tiny bit more,” noted Betsey Stevenson, an economist at the University of Michigan. That’s been a happy surprise, she said, b...
Betsey Stevenson
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Wolfers: "This ain't a recession"

Jul 10, 2023 Marketplace
Justin Wolfers, Marketplace: Downbeat indicators don’t tell the whole story. Take consumers, said Justin Wolfers, an economics professor at the University of Michigan. They might say they’re pessimistic about the economy. “But if you look at what...
Justin Wolfers
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Stevenson’s economic analysis in demand

Jul 3, 2023
Ford School economist Betsey Stevenson’s analysis of the volatile U.S. economy is in high demand.  When the June jobs numbers were released at the beginning of July, Stevenson was quoted in the Associated Press. AP reported, “Friday’s jobs re...
Betsey Stevenson