Heather Marie Boushey is the president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She was announced as chief economist on the Clinton-Kaine transition following the Democratic National Convention in July 2016. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College and her Ph. D. in economics from the New School for Social Research.
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Heather Marie Boushey is an American economist. She is the president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She was announced as chief economist on the Clinton-Kaine transition following the Democratic National Convention in July 2016. She will serve as a member of Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College and her Ph. D. in economics from the New School for Social Research. She has testified before the U.S. Congress and authored numerous reports and commentaries on issues affecting working families, including the implications of the 1996 welfare reform.
She currently sits on the board of the Opportunity Institute and is an associate editor of Feminist Economics and a senior fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic and Policy Analysis at the New. School for social Research. In 2019, she published Unbound: How Economic Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It, which was called one of the best economics books of 2019 by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times.
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