{{Short description|American economist (born 1970)}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Heather Boushey | image = Heather M. Boushey, CEA Member.jpg | caption = Official portrait, 2021 | office = [[Council of Economic Advisers|Member of the Council of Economic Advisers]] | president = [[Joe Biden]] | term_start = January 20, 2021 | term_end = January 20, 2025 | predecessor = [[Tyler Goodspeed]] | successor = | birth_name = Heather Marie Boushey | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1970}} | birth_place = [[Seattle, Washington]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = | spouse = [[Todd Tucker]] | education = [[Hampshire College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[The New School]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) }} '''Heather Marie Boushey'''<ref>{{cite news |title=Weddings/Celebration; Heather Boushey, Todd Tucker | work=The New York Times | date=April 2007 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801EEDE1130F932A35757C0A9619C8B63 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> (born 1970) is an American [[Labour movement|labor]] [[economist]] who served as a member of President [[Joe Biden]]'s [[Council of Economic Advisers]] and the Chief Economist for the Invest in America Cabinet at the [[White House]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boushey |first1=Heather |title=Beware of Austerity Demands Once the Immediate Crisis Passes |url=https://prospect.org/economy/beware-of-austerity-demands-after-crisis/ |website=The American Prospect |date=April 6, 2020 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Economy Nominees and Appointees |url=https://buildbackbetter.gov/nominees-and-appointees/economy/ |website=The White House |access-date=14 August 2024 |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120162302/https://buildbackbetter.gov/nominees-and-appointees/economy/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, she was the president and CEO of the [[Center for American Progress|Washington Center for Equitable Growth]], which she co-founded with [[John Podesta]]. She has also worked as an economist at the [[Center for American Progress]], the [[United States Congressional Joint Economic Committee|United States Congress Joint Economic Committee]], the [[Center for Economic and Policy Research]] and the [[Economic Policy Institute]]. She has written for a variety of publications, including the ''New York Times'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boushey |first1=Heather |title=I'm One of Biden's Advisers. Here's How I Think About His Economic Agenda |work=The New York Times |date=September 29, 2021 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/opinion/government-biden-families.html |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> Washington Post,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boushey |first1=Heather |title=The left should resist the siren song of 'modern monetary theory' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-left-should-resist-the-siren-song-of-modern-monetary-theory/2019/04/19/37e92190-5b9b-11e9-b8e3-b03311fbbbfe_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> ''Democracy Journal'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boushey |first1=Heather |title=A New Economic Paradigm |journal=Democracy: A Journey of Ideas |date=Summer 2019 |url=https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/53/a-new-economic-paradigm/ |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> and the ''American Prospect''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boushey |first1=Heather |title=Beware of Austerity Demands Once the Immediate Crisis Passes |url=https://prospect.org/economy/beware-of-austerity-demands-after-crisis/ |website=The American Prospect |date=April 6, 2020 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> She regularly appears in the media to discuss economic issues.
The ''New York Times'' has called Boushey one of the “most vibrant voices in the field,”<ref>{{cite web |last1=Belkin |first1=Lisa |title=Three Faces of Work-Life Conflict |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/three-faces-of-work-life-conflict/?searchResultPosition=2 |website=The New York Times |date=February 12, 2010 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> and laid out how she is “at the forefront of a generation of economists rethinking their discipline.”<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lederer |first1=Katy |title=A Gen-X Adviser to Biden Argues Equality is Good for Growth |work=The New York Times |date=August 28, 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/business/heather-boushey-biden-economic-inequality.html |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> Politico has twice named her one of the top 50 “thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics.” <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/politico50/2015/heather-boushey-ann-oleary/ |website=[[Politico]] |title=The POLITICO 50 - 2021 - Heather Boushey, Ann O'Leary }}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Boushey was born in [[Seattle]] and grew up in [[Mukilteo, Washington|Mukilteo]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boushey |first1=Heather |title=Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict |date=April 19, 2016 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-96862-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gToADAAAQBAJ&dq=heather+Boushey+mukilteo&pg=PA3 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> She earned her bachelor's degree from [[Hampshire College]] and her Ph.D. in economics from [[The New School for Social Research]].
==Career== Boushey's work focuses on the relation between [[Income inequality in the United States|inequality]] and [[economic growth]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hunnicutt |first1=Trevor |last2=Volcovici |first2=Valerie |last3=Shall |first3=Andrea |title=Biden set to name senior members of economic team possibly as soon as Monday |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-biden-advisers-idUSKBN28A07J |website=Reuters |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> She previously served as an economist for the [[Center for American Progress]], the [[United States Congressional Joint Economic Committee|United States Congress Joint Economic Committee]], the [[Center for Economic and Policy Research]], and [[Economic Policy Institute|the Economic Policy Institute]].
In 2013, Boushey and John Podesta launched the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a DC-based research organization at the Center for American Progress, also founded by Podesta.<ref>{{cite web |title=Washington Center for Equitable Growth |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/474464400 |website=ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer |date=May 9, 2013 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> In the year when Boushey resigned to join the Biden-Harris Administration, the organization had a budget of $10 million and the organization had awarded over $6 million in grants to nearly 200 academics nationwide.
Boushey was part of a team advising Hillary Clinton on her economic agenda during her presidential campaign, where she advised her on how to address inequality<ref>{{cite web |last1=Garcia |first1=Eric |last2=National Journal |title=Hillary Clinton's Economic Inequality Whisperer |website=[[The Atlantic]] |date=June 12, 2015 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/hillary-clintons-economic-inequality-whisperer/446283/ |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> and a menu of policies to build up the care economy.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tankersley |first1=Jim |title=How Hillary Clinton created her plan for America - behind-the-scenes |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/02/how-hillary-clinton-thinks-about-policy-behind-the-scenes/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> In July 2016, Boushey was announced as chief economist on the Clinton-Kaine transition following the [[2016 Democratic National Convention|Democratic National Convention]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schroeder |first1=Robert |title=Clinton taps inequality expert as her transition team's chief economist |url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/clinton-taps-inequality-expert-boushey-as-her-transition-teams-chief-economist-2016-08-16 |website=MarketWatch |date=August 17, 2016 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref>
Boushey is widely seen as one of the architects of the President's “middle out” approach to boosting economic growth and part of a slate of economic advisers that commentators saw as signifying a shift in direction for economic policy, which was hailed as a win for progressives.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ward |first1=Ian |title=The Unexpected Ways Joe Biden is Ushering In a New Economic Paradigm |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/09/how-bidenomics-got-a-lot-more-progressive-00055653 |website=Politico |date=September 9, 2022 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=LIVE from DC: Redefining the Center (with Heather Boushey) |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-from-dc-redefining-the-center-with-heather-boushey/id1445901378?i=1000652634047 |website=Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tomasky |first1=Michael |title=The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity |journal=Doubleday |date=6 September 2022 }}</ref> In August 2020, Boushey was featured in a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' article focusing on her role in the [[Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign|Biden presidential campaign]] and the work that she and Equitable Growth have been doing in the wake of COVID-19. Shortly after Biden's victory in November 2020, it was announced that Boushey would serve as a member of Biden's [[Council of Economic Advisers]] where she helped articulate his economic agenda.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boushey |first1=Heather |title=Remarks by Heather Boushey on How President Biden's Invest in America Agenda has Laid the Foundation for Decades of Strong, Stable, and Sustained, Equitable Growth |date=June 2023 |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/31/remarks-by-heather-boushey-on-how-president-bidens-invest-in-america-agenda-has-laid-the-foundation-for-decades-of-strong-stable-and-sustained-equitable-growth/ |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Foroohar |first1=Rana |title=Heather Boushey: 'The guardrails have come off the US economy' |url=https://www.ft.com/content/33a86191-3a75-452b-b3ce-d3d35ae90e06 |website=Financial Times |date=July 21, 2021 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> In February 2023, President Biden appointed her to Chief Economist for his newly-formed Invest in America Cabinet.<ref>{{cite web |title=President Biden Announces Key Members of his Economic Team |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/14/president-biden-announces-key-members-of-his-economic-team/ |website=The White House |date=February 14, 2023 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> In that role, she helped articulate the economic theory of the case for the invest in America agenda<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boushey |first1=Heather |title=The Economics of Public Investment Crowding in Private Investment |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/blog/2023/08/16/the-economics-of-public-investment-crowding-in-private-investment/ |website=The White House |date=August 16, 2023 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> and traveled the country, connecting with communities directly benefiting from the President's economic agenda.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hansen |first1=Piper |title=White House economist talks Louisville airport improvements, infrastructure funding |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2024/07/16/louisville-infrastructure-airport-funding-updates.html |website=Louisville Business First |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Boushey |first1=Heather |title=Bidenomics in WA: Investing to grow the economy from the middle out |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/bidenomics-in-wa-investing-to-grow-the-economy-from-the-middle-out/ |website=The Seattle Times |date=November 14, 2023 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> After Boushey's role in the Biden administration was announced, [[Claudia Sahm]], a former employee at Equitable Growth, accused her of mismanagement. Equitable Growth denied Sahm's account.<ref>{{cite news |title=Biden CEA Pick Heather Boushey Criticized by Former Staffer |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-02/biden-cea-pick-boushey-criticized-by-former-staffer-sahm |newspaper=Bloomberg |date=December 2, 2020 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Biden top economic adviser facing accusations of mismanagement, verbal abuse |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/02/biden-economic-adviser-heather-boushey-mismanagement-442408 |website=POLITICO |date=December 2, 2020 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref>
Boushey has often testified before the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]], written for popular media, including [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/opinion/government-biden-families.html The New York Times], The Atlantic, and Democracy Journal, and makes frequent television appearances on Bloomberg, MSNBC, CNBC, and PBS.
Boushey previously sat on the board of the Opportunity Institute. She was a senior fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic and Policy Analysis at the [[The New School for Social Research|New School for Social Research]], and a Research Affiliate with the National Poverty Center at the [[Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy]]. She has been an associate editor of ''[[Feminist Economics (journal)|Feminist Economics]]'', and on the editorial review board of [[Journal of Labor and Society|WorkingUSA]] and the Journal of Poverty.
=== Analysis of women's participation in the labor force === In response to a series of articles in the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' that claimed that highly educated women were dropping out of the labor force because of "the motherhood movement", Boushey published results of [[Econometrics|econometric analysis]] that showed that the opposite was true and that these women, along with women and workers in the economy as a whole, were merely suffering the effects of the U.S. recession and [[jobless recovery]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Uchitelle |first1=Louis |title=Economy drives women out of U.S. workforce |work=The New York Times |date=July 22, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/business/worldbusiness/22iht-jobs.4.14695747.html |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> [[Bureau of Labor Statistics]] economists Emy Sok and Sharon Cohany found that, in 2005, the participation rate of married mothers with preschoolers was 60%, about 4 percentage points lower than its peak in 1997 and 1998.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sok |first1=Emily |last2=Cohany |first2=Sharon |title=Trends in labor force participation of married mothers of infants |journal=Monthly Labor Review |date=February 2007 |url=http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2007/02/art2full.pdf}}</ref> Economist Saul Hoffman found that, between 1984 and 2004, the presence of children has had a smaller negative impact on the labor force participation of all women aged 25–44 years. This finding confirms Boushey's report of a declining child penalty. However, this effect varies greatly by marital status: The labor force participation rate of single mothers aged 25–44 years increased 9 percentage points between 1993 and 2000, while the rate for single women aged 25–44 years with children aged 5 years or younger jumped a full 14 percentage points over the same period. In contrast, the labor force participation rate for married mothers increased 1 percentage point, and the rate for married women with children aged 5 years or younger was flat.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hoffman |first1=Saul |title=The changing impact of marriage and children on women's labor force participation |journal=Monthly Labor Review |date=February 2009 |url=http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/02/art1full.pdf |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref>
== Personal life == On March 31, 2007, Boushey married Todd Tucker,<ref>{{cite news |title=Weddings/Celebrations; Heather Boushey, Todd Tucker | work=The New York Times | date=April 2007 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801EEDE1130F932A35757C0A9619C8B63 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> [https://rooseveltinstitute.org/authors/todd-tucker/ Director, Industrial Policy and Trade at the Roosevelt Institute.]
==Selected publications== *{{Cite book|last1=Boushey|first1=Heather|title=Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict|isbn=978-0-674-24149-7|year=2016|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|oclc=1090007320}} *{{Cite book|last1=Boushey|first1=Heather|title=Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It|isbn=978-0-674-91931-0|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2019|oclc=1090012216}}
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