LSER Experts In the News

The Washington Post reports the New York Fed withdrew from a fellowship program that supports women and underrepresented groups in economics, quoting Yana Rodgers.

The New Republic explores how unions can challenge President Trump. Eric Blanc says they must “fill the political vacuum created by the Democratic Party’s disarray.”

The Guardian publishes an op-ed by Eric Blanc, arguing that organized labor can help to counter President Trump’s “shock-and-awe offensive.”

Vox examines how progressives can defeat President Trump’s political agenda, quoting Eric Blanc on the power of collective action in the workplace.

Jacobin publishes an article by Eric Blanc detailing how federal workers can stand up to Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency.

USA TODAY writes about the Black labor leaders who are standing up to the Trump administration, quoting Danielle Phillips-Cunningham.

Bloomberg talks to Rosemarie Cipparulo about the Department of Government Efficiency’s controversial deferred resignation offer to the federal workforce.

Rutgers Today publishes a Q&A with Danielle Phillips-Cunningham about her book on Nannie Helen Burroughs, who started her own school for Black women and girls in 1909.

The Washington Post interviews Carla Katz, who says President Trump “does not have the authority to make unilateral changes” to signed union contracts.

Jacobin publishes Eric Blanc’s interview with Ed Dupree, a Whole Foods employee who helped to lead the successful unionization drive at a store in Philadelphia.