Marjorie Wood

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Marjorie E. Wood focuses on income and wealth inequality, minimum wage and worker justice, and higher education reform. While At IPS, Wood co-authored multiple reports, including The One Percent at State U, which was the first study to connect the rising pay of university presidents with an increase in adjunct faculty and student debt. This study was featured in a New York Times editorial and in many other prominent media outlets. Wood currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Labor and Research Action Network, a group that connects academic experts around the country with labor organizers. She has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago (2011) where she received the Herbert G. Gutman Prize, a national award for the best dissertation in U.S. Labor History given annually by the Labor and Working-Class History Association. Prior to joining IPS, Wood was a visiting professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

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Economic Justice | Articles

Homecare Worker Rule Here to Stay
Last week, the Supreme Court paved the way for implementation of a new rule guaranteeing the rights of homecare workers.

Economic Justice, Racial & Gender Justice | Articles

Gender Pay Gap Drives Inequality

The persistent pay gap between men and women is a key driver of economic inequality today.

Economic Justice | Articles

Homecare Ruling a Historic Victory

Last week’s court decision combats longstanding racism and sexism embedded in U.S labor law.

Economic Justice, Peace & Foreign Policy | Articles

The Ongoing Exploitation of Home Care Workers

Greedy CEOs are pitting elderly Americans against the workers who care for them.

Economic Justice | Articles

Candidates Stop Saying ‘Middle Class’

Instead of new rhetoric about the middle class, Presidential candidates should invent policies to save it.
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