David Beckworth
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

My latest guest is Betsey Stevenson. Betsey is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan and previously served as the chief economist at the U.S. Labor Department. She joined me to discuss her experience working at the Labor Department at a time of high unemployment as well as her more recent research on challenges in the U.S. labor market. Specifically, she talks about the problem of decreased male labor force participation and why “manly men need to do more girly jobs.”

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David Beckworth

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Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and former Economist at U.S. Treasury Department