John Schmitt"The Economic Policy Institute mourns the passing of AFL-CIO chief economist and Howard University professor William Spriggs"
"Spriggs was a fierce proponent of racial and economic justice whose influence as a public intellectual and economist reached across academia, labor, think tanks, positions in the Clinton and Obama administrations, and the civil rights community."
An enormous loss.
The Economic Policy Institute mourns the passing of AFL-CIO chief economist and Howard University professor William Spriggs
The Economic Policy Institute mourns the loss of William Spriggs, AFL-CIO chief economist and professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University, as well as former EPI economist. Spriggs was a fierce proponent of racial and economic justice whose influence as a public intellectual and economist reached across academia, labor, think tanks, positions in…
