Inclusive Economy
Building an Economy for All; Economy; Jobs; Racial Equity and Justice
Christian E. Weller is a senior fellow at American Progress and a professor of public policy at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His area of expertise includes retirement income security, macroeconomics, money and banking, and international finance. He is also a research scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute and an institute fellow at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Gerontology Institute. Prior to joining the Center, he was on the research staff at the Economic Policy Institute, where he remains a research associate.
Christian has also worked at the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn in Germany; under the Department of Public Policy of the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C.; and served in the banking sector in Germany, Belgium, and Poland. He is a respected academic with more than 100 academic and popular publications. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Development Studies, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, and the Journal of Economic Issues, among others. His popular writings have been published in The New York Times, USA Today, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
He co-authored with E. Wolff the book, Retirement Income: The Crucial Role of Social Security and was a co-editor of Employee Pensions: Policies, Problems and Possibilities with T. Ghilarducci. In 2006, he was awarded the Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association. In 2007, Christian was elected to the board of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, one of the country’s largest associations for professionals in the fields of labor and employment relations.
His work is frequently cited in the press and he is often a guest on national TV and radio programs. Christian holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
New data show unions increase wealth across education levels and close racial wealth gaps.
Union membership not only increases wealth for working-class families but also narrows racial wealth gaps and offers a path to the middle class.
Unions help narrow the gap between working families and the superrich.
Union membership significantly increases wealth for all households, but Black and Hispanic families gain the most.
Andy Green, Christian E. Weller, and Malkie Wall explain how collective bargaining, competition, tax fairness, and corporate long-termism can help American capitalism shift back from Wall Street to Main Street.
Christian E. Weller and David Madland discuss the importance of unions in closing the racial wealth gap.
Data from the Survey of Consumer Finances show that middle-class union families have more wealth than their nonunion counterparts.
Senior Fellow Christian E. Weller testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Christian E. Weller testifies before the Joint Revenue Hearing, House and Senate Ways and Means Committees, at the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts.
By a variety of measures, what the Republican presidential candidate said about his stewardship of the state contradicts the facts—naturally.
The economy is on the right track and remarkably robust in the face of tremendous obstacles.
By almost any measure, our economy, our companies, and our livelihoods are better today than when conservatives last had a chance to implement their economic policies.
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