What is COVID Revealing About Inequality in Cities and City Budgets?
With SCEPA Senior Fellow Rick McGahey and Associate Director Bridget Fisher
Bridget Fisher, Director of SCEPA's Critical Public Finance project, talks with SCEPA Senior Fellow Rick Mcgahey as cities face COVID surges and budget crises as a result of lockdown measures. The two discuss how COVID deepens urban income and racial inequalities. How are city budgets limited in dealing with these issues and why? #SCEPAResponds with their take.
SCEPA Senior Fellow Laura Carvalho on Inequality and COVID-19
New School alum and SCEPA Senior Fellow Laura Carvalho, speaks with Professor of Economics and Director at SCEPA, Teresa Ghilarducci, about income and racial inequality and their two-way relationship to Brazil's COVID-19 infection and mortality rates—the subject of her paper, "Multidimensional Inequality & COVID-19 in Brazil."
COVID Unemployment, Older Workers, and Racial Gaps in Recovery: August 2020 Unemployment Report
Siavash Radpour, economist and Associate Director at SCEPA's Retirement Equity Lab, discusses the August unemployment report with Visiting Scholar and Strategic Adviser to SCEPA, economist John Irons.
July 2020 Unemployment Report
SCEPA Research Associate Aida Farmand is joined by labor economist Teresa Ghilarducci, SCEPA's Director and Professor of Economics and Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research.
June 2020 Unemployment Report
SCEPA Research Associate Aida Farmand is joined by Kyle K. Moore, SCEPA Alumni and current Senior Policy Analyst for the Joint Economic Committee Democrats in the U.S. Congress.
Race Disparities & COVID Recovery: May 2020 Unemployment Report
SCEPA Senior Fellow and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, William M. Rodgers and SCEPA Visiting Scholar and Strategic Advisor John Irons discuss May's unemployment numbers.
Older Workers In Recessions & Retirement Security: April 2020 Unemployment Report Analysis
SCEPA's Director and Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz professor of economics at The New School for Social Research, Teresa Ghilarducci is joined by Retirement Equity Lab's Research Director Siavash Radpour.
SCEPA Analyzes COVID Recession’s Rapid Unemployment: March 2020 Unemployment Report
SCEPA's Director and Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz professor of economics at The New School for Social Research, Teresa Ghilarducci is joined by Research Associate Michael Papadopoulos.
