Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., a liberal policy think-tank that seeks to advance the interests of American workers. He has been at EPI since 1987, first serving as Research Director, then as Vice-president and in 2002 became President.

Mishel is the senior author of its biannual flagship publication, The State of Working America, a comprehensive summary of the United States labor market and living standards, which first appeared in 1988.

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• The State of Working America