Randy Albelda, University of Massachusetts Boston, Economics Department and Center for Social Policy
Randy Albelda is a Professor of Economics and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Social Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Albelda’s work focuses on the low-income families and the intersection of employment and receipt of public supports. A current project, with colleague Michael Carr, involves exploring the share of workers that are both low-wage and low-income in the US since the early 1980s. Both the number and the percentage of low-wage workers that are also low-income have been expanding. This new vulnerable group of workers tend to operate without employer-based supports or anti-poverty benefits – the keystones of US social protection policies. Albelda is the Graduate Program Director of the MA in Applied Economics. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from University of Massachusetts. Photo: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Contact: randy.albelda@umb.edu — contact – Center for Social Policy
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