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Bill became Chair of the Department, and
a professor, of Economics at Howard University in Washington,
DC in December 2005. Before that, Bill was at the Economic Policy
Institute as senior fellow, having returned there in 2004. Starting
in July 2006, he also serves as Chair of the Independent
Health Care Trust for UAW Retirees of Ford Motor Company, and
is on
the board of the Retiree Health Administration Corporation
which administers the health care trusts for UAW retirees of
Ford and
General Motors.
From 1988 to 2004, he was Executive Director
of the National Urban League’s Institute for Opportunity
and Equality, where among other duties he was editor of the
State of Black America 1999, and led research on pay equity
that won the NUL the 2001 Winn Newman Award from the National
Committee
on Pay Equity. As a member of the National Academy of
Social
Insurance, Bill was the co-chair of the 2003 NASI conference
that produced the volume, Strengthening Community: Social
Insurance
in a Diverse America.
In 2004, with several of his Washington-based
civil rights advocate colleagues, Bill was awarded
the Congressional Black Caucus Chairman’s Award by then CBC
Chair Elijah Cummings.
On behalf of the NUL, Bill gave congressional testimony
on how
various policies would affect Black and low-income
communities,
and participated in the UN World Conference Against
Racism, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance, where
he contributed
language
adopted in the Programme of Action relating to documenting
racial disparities and incorporating closing racial
disparities within
efforts to achieve the Copenhagen goals for World
Social Development.
Before working at the National Urban League,
Bill held various
positions in government service during the Clinton
Administration: in 1993 and 1994 he led the staff of the
National Commission
for Employment Policy, and in 1997 and 1998 he
worked at the Department of Commerce, where he worked on the
federal
response to the Adarand v. Pena decision, crafting
the guidelines
for
the federal Small Disadvantage Business program
that successfully addressed the Courts’ concerns
in the
Adarand case, and at
the Small Business Administration. He served
as a senior economist
for the Democratic staff of the Joint Economic
Committee of the U.S. Congress from 1994 to 1997,
where, among
other things, he
worked on the passage of the increase in the
minimum wage and to prevent legislative efforts
to roll back
affirmative
action
in federal procurement.
He is a past-board member
and President of the National Economic Association—the
professional
organization
of Black economists, currently serves on the
policy board of the Association for Public
Policy Analysis
and Management,
and
is a Board member of the National Academy of
Social Insurance. In 2006 he was elected to
the National
Academy of Public
Administration. He serves as Vice Chair of
the Board of the Congressional Black
Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute,
and on the boards of the National Employment
Law Project and
the National
Advisory Council of Corporate Voices for Working
Families.
Bill is a member of the Black Enterprise
Magazine Board
of Economists,
and served on the 2002 Time Magazine Board
of Economists. He taught six years at Norfolk State
University (in
Virginia) where
he also headed the Honors Program for non-science
students, and two years at North Carolina
A & T
State University (in Greensboro), and has
published in both academic
and popular journals, and
appeared on various television and radio
news programs.
Ph.D. Economics, University of
Wisconsin-Madison 1984 [National Science Foundation Minority
Graduate Fellow]
BA, Williams College 1977 cum laude
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