Austin Clemens
Austin Clemens

Senior Fellow

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Austin Clemens is a senior fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Austin was an assistant research scientist at the Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University where he researched criminal justice policy. Clemens holds a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Texas and a doctorate in political science from the University of Georgia. His work has appeared in ESPN the Magazine, Smithsonian magazine, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Business and Politics.

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JOLTS Day Graphs: May 2023 Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: May 2023 Report Edition

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JOLTS Day Graphs: April 2023 Edition

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The rise of industrial policy means data synchronization is more critical than ever

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Maybe some Earth Day soon, we’ll know what nature is worth

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TOPICS: Climate, GDP 2.0
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: January 2023 Report Edition

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U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: December 2022 Report Edition

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New digital tools demonstrate the promise of measuring well-being in the United States

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Canada is the first country to release subannual statistics on the distribution of income. Here’s how it was done.

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Three observations from the kick-off of a new consensus study by the National Academy of Sciences on measuring U.S. economic inequality

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More frequent disaggregated data on U.S. income inequality would improve economic research and inform policymaking

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Six charts that explain how inequality in the United States changed over the past 20 years

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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The U.S. economy is in its fourth decade of rising inequality amid the need for more accurate data on its consequences

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In Conversation

In Conversation with Erica Groshen

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Measuring economic outcomes for all U.S. workers and their families will hold policymakers accountable to creating broad-based growth

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Evidence from the 2020 election shows how to close the income voting divide

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JOLTS Day Graphs: May 2021 Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: June 2021 Report Edition

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Measuring what matters: Zeroing in on Latina women to address persistent low Hispanic homeownership rates in the United States

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Coronavirus Recession

New Great Recession data suggest Congress should go big to spur a broad-based, sustained U.S. economic recovery

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How combating voter suppression can help close the economic divides between Black and White Americans and spur U.S. economic growth

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The consequences of political inequality and voter suppression for U.S. economic inequality and growth

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Equitable Growth’s Household Pulse graphs: October 14 – 26

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Equitable Growth’s Household Pulse graphs: September 30–October 12

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The rising number of U.S. households with burdensome student debt calls for a federal response

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Can policymakers reverse the unequal decline in middle-age U.S. homeownership rates?

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Equitable Growth’s Household Pulse graphs: September 16–28 Edition

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Coronavirus Recession

New wealth data show that the economic expansion after the Great Recession was a wealthless recovery for many U.S. households

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Equitable Growth’s household pulse graphs: September 2–14 edition

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Coronavirus Recession

Structural racism and the coronavirus recession highlight why more and better U.S. data need to be widely disaggregated by race and ethnicity

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What is Gross Domestic Product, and what does it measure?

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A generational perspective on recent U.S. homeownership divergence by income and race

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: June 2020 Report Edition

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Coronavirus Recession

Data will provide accountability to ensure the U.S. economic recovery is shared broadly

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
Coronavirus Recession

The coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of disaggregating U.S. data by race and ethnicity

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New distributional snapshot of U.S. personal income is a landmark federal statistical product

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Gross Domestic Product sets the tone of the U.S. economic debate while leaving working- and middle-class families behind

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: January 2020 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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To move beyond GDP, put alternatives front and center

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: December 2019 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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JOLTS Day Graphs: October 2019 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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Eight graphs that tell the story of U.S. economic inequality

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JOLTS Day Graphs: September 2019 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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JOLTS Day Graphs: August 2019 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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The death of the Phillips Curve is the time to lift up new economic indicators

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Interactive: Comparing wages within and across demographic groups in the United States

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New data reveal how U.S. economic growth is divided

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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U.S. Congress asks Bureau of Economic Analysis to disaggregate GDP growth data

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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State of the Union speech highlights the need for more precise data on U.S. economic growth

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Progress toward consensus on measuring U.S. income inequality

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JOLTS Day Graphs: November 2018 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: December 2018 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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JOLTS Day Graphs: October 2018 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: November 2018 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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Measurement matters. An equitable economy is impossible without it.

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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U.S. income growth has been stagnant. To what degree depends on how you measure it.

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JOLTS Day Graphs: September 2018 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: October 2018 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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JOLTS Day Graphs: August 2018 Report Edition

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In an age of inequality, aggregate and mean economic statistics don’t tell us enough

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0, Poverty
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JOLTS Day Graphs: July 2018 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: August 2018 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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JOLTS Day Graphs: June 2018 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: July 2018 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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JOLTS Day Graphs: May 2018 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: June 2018 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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Realizing the promise of place-based economics requires more and better data from across the United States

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Policymakers can’t tackle inequitable growth if it isn’t measured

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: April 2018 Report Edition

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Disaggregating growth

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New worldwide report on inequality shows how the United States compares

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What if we took equity into account when measuring economic growth?

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Here’s why you should interpret tomorrow’s GDP growth estimate skeptically

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Latest official estimates underreport extent of inequality in the U.S.

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Previewing tomorrow’s annual income and poverty report

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New report on evidence-based policymaking boasts recommendations that Congress must take seriously

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No one measure of inequality tells the whole story–income, wealth, and consumption should be considered together

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Will the United States give up on data collection?

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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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The once and future measurement of economic inequality in the United States

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Economic insecurity rises around childbirth, explained in four charts

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New analysis shows it is more difficult for workers to move up the income ladder

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Another interactive look at changes in U.S. labor force participation

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An interactive history of U.S. labor force participation

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Interactive: The changing economics of the American family

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Interactive: A new look at who earns what in the United States

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Interactive: How much have U.S. earnings grown since 2007?

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A snapshot of the long-term impacts of universal prekindergarten

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What happened to the job ladder in the 21st century?

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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The cruel game of musical chairs in the U.S. labor market

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TOPICS: Job Mobility

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