Journal Articles

With Kenya Covington, “Negative Effects of State Welfare Policy on Recipient College Enrollment,” Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 32, (Number 2, Fall 2004): 7-26.

with William M. Rodgers, III and Bruce W. Klein, “Do the Skills of Adults Employed in Minimum Wage Contour Jobs Explain Why they Get Paid Less,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 27 (Fall 2004): 33-66.

with Valerie A. Rawlston, “A Logit Decomposition Analysis of Occupational Segregation: An Update for the 1990’s of Spriggs and Williams,” Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 29(Spring 2002): 91-96.

with William M. Rodgers, III, “Accounting for the Racial Gap in AFQT Scores: Comment on Nan L. Maxwell, ‘The Effect on Black-White Wage Differences on Differences in the Quantity and Quality of Education,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 55 (April 2002): 533-541.

With Rhonda M. Williams, “How Does it Feel to be Free?: Reflections on Black-White Economic Inequality in the Era of ‘Color-Blind’ Law,” Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 27 (Summer 1999): 9-21. Also in Thomas D. Boston (ed.) Leading Issues in Black Political Economy (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001)

with William M. Rodgers, III, “What Does the AFQT Really Measure?: Race, Wages, Schooling and the AFQT Score,” Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 24 (Spring 1996): 13-46.

with Rhonda M. Williams, "A Logit Decomposition Analysis of Occupational Segregation: Results for the 1970's and 1980's," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXXVIII (May 1996): 348-355.

"Changes in the Federal Minimum Wage, a Test of Wage Norms,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 16 (Winter 1993-94): 221–239.

with James Stanford, "Economists' Assessment of the Likely Employment and Wage Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement," Hofstra Labor Law Journal, Vol. 10 (Spring 1993): 495–536.

with Jesse Pendleton, Ronald Proctor and Gerald Tyler, “Norfolk State University, An Economic Asset to the Community,” Norfolk State University Research Bulletin, Vol. 4 (Number 1, 1987): 1-25.

“Measuring Residential Segregation: An Application of Trend Surface Analysis,” Phylon, Vol. XLV (Winter 1984): 249-263.

“The Virginia Farmers’ Alliance: A Case Study in Race and Class Identity,” Journal of Negro History, Vol. LXIV (Summer 1979): 191-204.

Published Proceedings Papers

“The Public’s Stake in Social Security Reform,” in Sheila Burke, Eric Kingson and Uwe Reinhardt, editors, Social Security and Medicare: Individual vs. Collective Risk and Responsibility (Washington, DC: National Academy of Social Insurance, 2000): 208-209.

Comments on Session on “Inequality in American Wages: Social and Institutional Change”, in Conference on the Macrodynamics of Inequality in the Industrialized and Developing World, October 28-29, 1999, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Conference Proceedings, (Annondale-on-Hudson, NY: Levy Institute, 1999): 28.

Comments on “Remedies to Racial Inequality,” in Samuel L. Myers, Jr., editor, Civil Rights and Race Relations in the Post Reagan-Bush Era (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1997).

with William M. Rodgers, III, “The Effect of Federal Contractor Status on Racial Differences in Establishment-Level Employment Shares: 1979-1992,” American Economic Review, Vol. 86(2) (May 1996, Papers and Proceedings): 290-293. Also in Harry J. Holzer and David Neumark (eds.) The Economics of Affirmative Action (Camberley, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004).

with Bruce Klein, "A Decade of Low Pay: Minimum Wage Workers in the 1980s," 1993 Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association: 380–389.

“Comments on Horacio E. Sobarzo's 'A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Gains from Trade for the Mexican Economy of a North American Free Trade Agreement,' " in U.S. ITC, Economy-Wide Modeling of the Economic Implications of a FTA with Mexico and a NAFTA with Canada and Mexico Publication No. 2508, (Washington, DC: U.S. ITC, 1992).

Book Chapters and Invited Essays in Edited Volumes

"Black Liberalism." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William A. Darity, Jr. (ed.), (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008).

With Cheryl Hill Lee, “Racial Disparities and Business Cycles: Do Racial Wage Gaps Close in tight Labor Markets?” in Marlene Kim (ed.), Race and Economic Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century, (London: Routledge, 2007 forthcoming).

“Participatory Democracy and Race Relations in the U.S.,” in Claire Nelson and Stacy Richards-Kennedy (eds.) Advancing Equity in Latin America: Putting Policy into Practice (Washington: Inter American Development Bank, 2007).

“Social Security and American Values,” in Calvin Logue, Lynn Messina and Jean DeHart (eds.), Representative American Speeches, 2004-2005 (New York, NY: HW Wilson Company, 2005).

With Suzanne Bergeron, “The National Urban League and Social Welfare Policy: A Historical Perspective,” in Lee A. Daniels (ed.) The State of Black America 2002 (New York: National Urban League, 2002): 29-50.

with Valerie A. Rawlston, “Social Security: A True Family Value,” in David Jacobs and Sheldon Friedman (eds.) The Future of the Safety Net: Social Insurance and Employee Benefits, Industrial Relations Research Association Research Volume 2001 (Champaign, IL: IRRA, 2002).

with Lynn A. Curtis, “Leave No One Behind: A Policy Framework on Poverty, Race, and Justice,” in Robert L. Borosage and Roger Hickey (eds.), The Next Agenda: Blueprint for a New Progressive Movement (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001): 211-246.

With Rhonda M. Williams, “What Do We Need to Explain About African American Unemployment,” in Robert Cherry and William M. Rodgers, III (eds.), Prosperity for All? The Economic Boom and African Americans (New York: Russell Sage, 2000): 188-207.

with Samuel L. Myers, Jr., “Black Employment, Criminal Activity and Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of New Jersey,” in Patrick L. Mason and Rhonda M. Williams (eds.), Race, Markets and Social Outcomes (Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996): 31-64.

with John Schmitt, “The Minimum Wage: Blocking the Low-Wage Path,” in Todd Schaefer and Jeff Faux (eds.) Reclaiming Prosperity: A Blueprint for Progressive Economic Reform, (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996): 163-172.

with Robert Blecker, "On Beyond NAFTA: Employment, Growth, and Income Distribution Effects of a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Area," in Inter-American Development Bank and United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Trade Liberalization in the Western Hemisphere (Washington, DC: IDB, ECLAC, 1995).

Monographs

(editor) with Kathleen Buto, Martha Priddy Patterson and Maya Rockeymoore, Strengthening Community: Social Insurance in a Diverse America, (Washington: National Academy of Social Insurance and the Brookings Institution Press, 2004)

(editor), The State of Black America, 1999, (New York: National Urban League, 1999)

with Bruce Klein, Raising the Floor: The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Low-Wage Workers
(Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 1994)

(editor), Employee Rights in a Changing Economy: The Issue of Replacement Workers (Washington, DC : Economic Policy Institute, 1991)

Congressional Testimony

“Testimony Before the House Committee on Ways and Means,” U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. 110th Congress, 1st Session. Committee on Ways and Means. Hearing on the U.S. Economy (January 2007).

“Concerns about the Program Oversight of GSE Housing Programs.” U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. 108th Congress. 1st Session. Committee on Financial Services. Hearing on H.R. 2575,The Secondary Mortgage Market Enterprises Regulatory Improvement Act (September 2003).

“Concerns about the Transparency of Credit Scores.” U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. 108th Congress. 1st Session. Committee on Financial Services. Hearing on H.R. 2622, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act of 2003 (July 2003).

"Concerns about Collateral Costs of Tax Exemption for Individual Dividend Income." U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. 108th Congress. 1st Session. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Financial Services. Paying Dividends: How the President’s Tax Plan Will Benefit Individual Investors and Strengthen the Capital Markets (March 2003).

"Statement," U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. 106th Congress. 1st Session. Subcommittee on Social Security, Impacts of the Current Social Security System (February, 1999).

"Worker Rights and U.S. Trade Policy," U.S. Congress. Senate. 103rd Congress. 1st Session. Subcommittee on Foreign Commerce and Tourism, U.S. Competitiveness in the Global Marketplace (May, 1993).

"Shifting Patterns of North American Manufacturing Job Creation: The Period from Mexican Investment Liberalization to U.S. Recession (1986-1990)," U.S. Congress. Senate. 102nd Congress. 2nd Session. Subcommittee on Labor, NAFTA: The Hidden Costs of "Free" Trade (October, 1992).

"Potential Effects of Direct Foreign Investment Shifts Due to the Proposed U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement," U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. 102nd Congress. 1st Session. Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness, North American Free Trade Agreement (March and May, 1991).

"Restoring Balance to Labor Management Relations," U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. 102nd Congress. 1st Session. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations, Hearings on H.R. 5, The Striker Replacement Bill (March, 1991).

Book Reviews, Magazine Articles and Policy Papers

With Steven C. Pitts, Ph.D., "Beyond the Mountaintop: King's Prescription For Poverty."

“Sphere of Influence,” Crisis (July/August 2006).

“Poverty in America: The Poor are Getting Poorer” Crisis (January/February 2006).

With Jason Furman, “African Americans and Social Security: The Implications of Reform Proposals,” Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (January 2006).

With Ross Eisenbrey, “Two Steps Back: African Americans and Latinos will lose ground under Social Security ‘reform’ ,” Economic Policy Institute, Issue Brief #212 (July 2005).

With David Ratner, “Social Security’s cruelest cut: Bush’s proposal slashes benefits for family members of workers who die before retirement,” Economic Policy Institute, Issue Brief #211 (July 2005).

With David Ratner, “Social Security price indexing proposal means benefit cuts for workers,” Economic Policy Institute, Issue Brief #209 (June 2005).

With Lee Price, “Productivity growth and Social Security’s future,” Economic Policy Institute, Issue Brief #208 (May 2005).

“Fired Up: The Great Social Security Debate” Crisis (March/April 2005).

“Children Get Social Security Too,” Poverty & Race (March/April 2005) also in Chester Hartman (ed.) Poverty and Race in America: The Emerging Agenda (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).

“Another Mistaken Racial Stereotype,” American Prospect (February 2005).

“African Americans and Social Security,” Dollars and Sense (November/December 2004).

“The Federal Budget Battle,” Black Enterprise (June 2003).

With Kenya L. Covington Cox, “Negative Effects of Welfare Policy on College Enrollment,” National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality, Special Research Report SRR-01-2002 (June 2002).

“An Unkind Cut,” Black Enterprise (July 2002), p. 26.

with Valerie A. Rawlston, “Pay Equity 2000: Are we There Yet,” National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality, Special Research Report SRR-02-2001 (April 2001).

with Valerie A. Rawlston, “Social Security Helps Reduce Child Poverty,” National Voter (December 2000/January 2001), pgs.20-23.

“The New Economics of Sports’ Stadiums,” SportsWorld, Summer 1996: 18, 21-22.

With Robert Scott, "Economists' Views of Workers' Rights and U.S. Trade Policy." Center for International Business Education and Research (University of Maryland—College Park), Occasional Paper # 60. (June 1995).

Review of Michael Fix and Raymond Struyk, Clear and Convincing Evidence: Measurement of Discrimination in America (Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1992) in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 47 (July 1994): 713-714.

"A New Day for Labor?," Democratic Left, Volume XXI (September/October 1993): 3–6.

"The Slow Employment Growth Puzzle," Christian Social Action, Volume 6 (March 1993): 8–10.
with Robert A. Blecker, “Manufacturing Employment in North America: Where the Jobs Have Gone,” Economic Policy Institute, Briefing Paper #35 (1992).

with Jeff Faux, “U.S. Jobs and the Mexico Trade Proposal,” Economic Policy Institute, Briefing Paper #20 (1991).

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