Mike Cassidy is a policy associate at The Century Foundation. He is a strong believer in the power of scientific analysis, and his research focuses on using economics to understand human behavior, especially as it relates to poverty, inequality, performance, and progress. A proud alum of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, Mike holds a Master in Public Affairs with a concentration in economics and public policy. From 2007 to 2012, he worked at the New York City Office of Management and Budget, where he oversaw the city’s social service and criminal justice agencies. In his spare time, Mike is a semi-professional distance runner and competed in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.
He is the author of an ongoing series of reports—Working Paper Series: A Detailed Look at the Labor Market Recovery—that looks beyond the headline statistics about the labor market recovery to examine how it truly affects working Americans.
Latest Work by Mike Cassidy
- Why Congress Should Give Working Families a Break
- July 27, 2015
- Overdue Overtime: Why You Should Care about Obama’s New Overtime Rules
- July 1, 2015
- Four Reasons Why The Minimum Wage Beat Congress
- May 29, 2015
- Should You Buy Buying Happiness?
- May 21, 2015
- The Price of Happiness
- April 27, 2015
- How Can the EITC Be Improved?
- April 13, 2015
- Who the EITC Helps—And Why It Works
- April 10, 2015
- The EITC—Our Biggest Program for the Working Poor
- April 10, 2015
- America Is Always Working—Except When It’s Not
- April 2, 2015
- When Your Occupation Is Poverty
- March 27, 2015
- Why the Supreme Court Should Keep Health Insurance Affordable
- February 27, 2015
- 5 Million Job Openings, So Why Can’t You Get Hired?
- February 5, 2015
- Uncovering the Labor Market Recovery
- November 6, 2014
- Inverting the Competition: TCF Fellow Ed Kleinbard Reveals the Real Reason Why American Companies Ar
- August 20, 2014
- Jesus Was a Keynesian
- August 14, 2014
- Vox’s Poor Measure of Food Affordability
- July 23, 2014
- How the World Cup Helps Us Make Better Anti-Poverty Policy
- June 25, 2014
- Going the Extra 30 Percent
- June 13, 2014
- Three Lessons from Ben Bernanke’s Time at the Fed
- May 5, 2014
- The Death Swoosh
- April 28, 2014
- Putting the “U” in U.S.
- April 4, 2014
- Hawking Yellen
- February 12, 2014
- Unsportsmanlike Conduct
- February 2, 2014
- Unpaid Heroes
- January 27, 2014
- Mike Cassidy’s 5 P’s of a Successful Internship
- January 10, 2014
- Love Thy Neighbor
- January 8, 2014
- GOTD: A Rapidly Falling Labor Force Participation Rate
- December 12, 2013
- The Case of the Disappearing Worker: Part Two
- December 6, 2013
- The Case of the Disappearing Worker: Part One
- December 5, 2013
- Obamacare’s Secret Success Story
- November 8, 2013
- Every Child Left Behind
- October 17, 2013
- Six Ways Obamacare Will Lower Your Health Insurance Costs
- October 2, 2013
- The Intergenerational Asset Grab
- September 25, 2013
- Red State Black State: Taking Fiscal Strength above the Bottom Line
- August 1, 2013
- The American Expectation
- July 2, 2013
- Racial Segregation Is Still a Problem
- July 1, 2013
- Staying Classy
- June 28, 2013
- Racial Equality in the U.S. Is Still a Dream
- June 27, 2013
- Stop Concentrating
- June 18, 2013
- Father Behind
- June 14, 2013
- Farming It Out: The Loss of America’s Heartland
- June 12, 2013
- America’s Submerged Welfare State
- June 5, 2013
- Breadlosing Dads
- June 1, 2013
FEATURING Mike Cassidy
- In Labor Victory, Fast Food Workers in New York Will Get a $15 Minimum Wage
- July 24, 2015
- The Economic Reasons Why ‘Mom’ Is America’s Most Important Job
- May 10, 2015
- White Parents in North Carolina are Using Charter Schools to Secede From the Education System
- April 15, 2015
- Meet Income Inequality’s Starting Five
- March 18, 2015
- You Could Be $51,000 Richer
- March 6, 2015
- The Labor Market Is Still Frozen
- February 11, 2015
- ARISE XCHANGE: MIKE CASSIDY
- February 9, 2015
- 5 Million Job Openings, So Why Can’t You Get Hired?
- February 5, 2015
- For Recent Black College Graduates, a Tougher Road to Employment
- January 5, 2015
- No One Is 5.8 Percent Unemployed
- December 11, 2014
- The Jobs Report in Black and White: The Hidden Bias in Hiring
- December 5, 2014
- Giancarlo Stanton’s $325 Million Deal Isn’t as Rich as it Seems
- November 25, 2014
- Don’t Forget the Kinda Unemployed
- November 13, 2014
- Unemployment at 5.8%? Here’s the Number that Really Matters
- November 11, 2014
- Madison Bumgarner: Exhibit A in Baseball’s Screwball Salary System - See more at: http://www.thefisc
- October 27, 2014
- Yeah, Why Are Those Bums Getting Paid So Much?
- October 17, 2014
- What the Spurs Can Teach Us About Inequality
- July 1, 2014
- Perpetuating Inequality in the Workplace
- February 12, 2014
- On Immigration, the Catholic Church Gets It Right
- September 19, 2013
- The Submerged Welfare State
- June 3, 2013
