William Spriggs
Organization:
Howard University
Position:
Professor and Chair, Economics Department
Areas of Expertise:
Economic equality, anti-discrimination enforcement, employment policy, labor relations, labor standards and minimum wage, small business development, African American community concerns, poverty, labor markets, international labor and human rights, racial disparities and civil rights, job training, minority business, and social insurance
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William Spriggs is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Howard University. He is a former senior research fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and he was the former Executive Director of the National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality. Professor Spriggs has also held roles in the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and the National Commission for Employment Policy in the Clinton Administration.
| William Spriggs (DC): Professor/Chair, Deptartment of Economics, Howard University; Senior Fellow, Economic Policy Institute; Former Executive Director, National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality; wrote "Black Liberalism" in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition (2008); racial wealth gap, economic inequality, small business development, minority-owned businesses |
