Podcast appearances and mentions of William M Rodgers

Ali Velshi is joined by Michael Cohen, Former Personal Attorney to Donald Trump, Eugene Scott, National Political Reporter at The Washington Post, Dr. Ala Stanford, Founder at Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, Nikole Hannah Jones, Pulitzer Prize Winning Staff Writer at the New York Times Magazine, Yamiche Alcindor, Anchor & Moderator at ‘Washington Week' on PBS, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, Democrat of U.S. Virgin Islands, Helene Cooper, Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon Correspondent at The New York Times, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, and William M. Rodgers III, Vice President and Director at Institute for Economic Equity for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

William M. Rodgers III, vice president and director of the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, discusses how the St. Louis Fed works to promote a more inclusive and equitable economy: “We are focused on advancing research that informs equity-based policies and practices leading to an economy that works for everybody.”

With the movement toward an increase in the minimum wage to $15 receiving elevated attention, The Century Foundation recently published the report “The Impact of $15 Minimum Wage on Hunger in America,” which explores how a proposed upward adjustment in wages would influence the persistent policy challenge of food insecurity. As author William M. Rodgers notes, approximately 14 percent of the citizens in the nation suffer from food insecurity at present, a significantly higher portion of the population than the 11 percent who fell into this category in 2007, prior to the Great Recession. Rodgers’ research outlines the relationship between the minimum wage and food insecurity, while presenting rigorous analysis to quantify the effects of a projected increase. Joining New Start New Jersey for this discussion is William M. Rodgers, a Fellow at The Century Foundation and Professor of Public Policy and Chief Economist at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.