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![Lea Austin smiles at the camera](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/lea-austin-tight_headshot_300x300-1.jpg)
Co-director, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE)
Areas of expertise: Economic impact, Income inequality, Jobs and workplace issues, Labor, Preschool education
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Dean of the School of Social Welfare
Areas of expertise: Child development, Economic impact, Health disparities/racial bias, Health policy, Income inequality, Politics and public policy, Race and ethnicity, Social welfare
![Michael Reich head shot](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Michael_Reich.jpg)
professor of economics and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE).
Areas of expertise: Economic history, Income inequality, Jobs and workplace issues, Labor, Race and ethnicity
![Ken Jacobs head shot](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Ken_Jacobs.jpg)
chair, UC Berkeley Labor Center
Areas of expertise: Economic impact, Income inequality, Jobs and workplace issues, Labor
![Sylvia Allegretto speaking](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Sylvia_Allegretto_300x300.jpg)
labor economist, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics
Areas of expertise: Economic impact, Income inequality, Jobs and workplace issues, Labor
![Jane McAlevey head shot](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Jane_McAlevey_300x300.jpg)
senior policy fellow, Center for Labor Research and Education
Areas of expertise: Economic impact, Elections, Health disparities/racial bias, Income inequality, Jobs and workplace issues, Labor, U.S. politics
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Director, Food Labor Research Center
Areas of expertise: Business and economics, Economic impact, Income inequality, Jobs and workplace issues, Racial justice and policing
![Jesse Rothstein, professor of economics and of public policy.](https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/jesse-rothstein_200_280_80.jpg)
Professor of economics and of public policy
Areas of expertise: Economic impact, Healthcare insurance and costs, Income inequality, Jobs and workplace issues, Labor
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Professor emeritus of sociology and demography
Areas of expertise: Income inequality, Politics and public policy, Religion
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Professor of Economics
Areas of expertise: Business and economics, Income inequality
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Professor of economics
Areas of expertise: Business and economics, Income inequality
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Associate professor in the Graduate School of Education
Areas of expertise: Education, Income inequality, K-12
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Assistant professor of city and regional planning, faculty research advisor for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Areas of expertise: Banking and finance, Business and economics, Consumer behavior, Housing, Income inequality