Dear RSF:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please join us at 11:00 on Wednesday, October 13 for Visiting Scholar Harry Holzer\u2019s presentation \u201cThe Labor Market and the Working Class since the Great Recession.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Holzer received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He is the John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, where he has been since 2000. Holzer is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings, and an Institute Fellow at the American Institute for Research in Washington, D.C. He was a co-founder and faculty director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy (2008-2013) and Chief Economist at the US Department of Labor during the Clinton Administration (1999). He is an expert on the low-wage labor market, with a focus on the problems of minority workers in urban areas. Holzer has authored or edited 12 books and several dozen journal articles, mostly on disadvantaged American workers and their employers, as well as on education and workforce issues and labor market policy. His books include Making College Work: Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students<\/em> (Brookings, 2017), Where are All the Good Jobs Going?<\/em> (RSF, 2011), Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men<\/em> (2006, Urban Institute Press), Moving Up or Moving On: Who Advances in the Low Wage Labor Market?<\/em> (2005, RSF) and What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers<\/em> (RSF, 1996).<\/p>\n\n\n\n As background, click here<\/a> for his paper, \u201cLabor Market Trends and Outcomes: What has Changed since the Great Recession\u201d from the Annals of AAPSS<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear RSF: Please join us at 11:00 on Wednesday, October 13 for Visiting Scholar Harry Holzer\u2019s presentation \u201cThe Labor Market and the Working Class since the Great Recession.\u201d Holzer received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He is the John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, Oct 13: Harry Holzer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsfintranet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Harry_Holzer.jpg?fit=450%2C279&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14811,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809\/revisions\/14811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}