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Randall Akee

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

The myth of independence: How Congress governs the Federal Reserve

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Low for Long? Causes and Consequences of Persistently Low Interest Rates

By Charles Bean, Christian Broda, Randall Kroszner, and Takatoshi Ito

2015

Brookings Institution

Brookings Now

Meet Randall Akee, new David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Economic Studies Program

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

A woman, part of a convoy of Central American migrants, is escorted into a van by National Institute of Migration (INM) officers, after being detained at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Tapachula, Mexico, May 19, 2019. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares - RC1F10AAEE00

Immigration

Outdated immigration laws increase violence toward women

Thursday, May 30, 2019

The spinning wheel on a roulette table is seen at Japan Casino School in Tokyo, Japan August 4, 2018. Picture taken August 4, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai - RC130E284860

Up Front

The transformation of the American Indian gaming industry

Monday, April 8, 2019

Beatrice Lookinghorse sits with two of her grandchildren, Linda Lookinghorse and Cody James Lookinghorse, in the backyard of her home on the Cheyenne River Reservation in Green Grass, South Dakota, U.S., May 28, 2018. Beatrice Lookinghorse is related to several of the Fort Laramie treaty riders who live with her. Beatrice also raises other children from the extended Lookinghorse family. "I promised my father that none of his grandkids would ever be put in the (foster care) system," she said. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith SEARCH "KEITH ANNIVERSARY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1A57AAB7F0

Up Front

How does measuring poverty and welfare affect American Indian children?

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

A voter casts his ballot behind a ballot booth during the U.S. presidential election at a polling station in the Staten Island Borough of New York, U.S. on November 6, 2012. REUTERS/Keith Bedford/File Photo - TM3EC7H11OV01

Up Front

A story from this American Indian reservation has important lessons for America’s young voter turnout problem

Thursday, October 25, 2018

The Fort Laramie treaty riders cross the Nebraska and Wyoming border in Van Tassel, Wyoming, U.S., April 25, 2018. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith - RC1BDDE04710

U.S. Politics & Government

How North Dakota is keeping Native Americans from voting in the midterms

Friday, October 19, 2018

A family from the Cheyenne River tribe plays together near Turtle Island during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 26, 2016. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith - RC11F6A7B3D0

Up Front

40 years ago we stopped the practice of separating American Indian families. Let’s not reverse course.

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Women wait in line for an interview at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Coney Island Boom A Ring Job Fair in New York May 27, 2009. There will be 200 jobs available for anyone age 16 and older starting June 18 thru September 7 on the boardwalk in Coney Island. The U.S. housing bust and auto sector upheaval have left hundreds of thousands of workers looking for jobs in the same sectors, in the same places, and at the same time. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS SOCIETY) - GM1E55S0H4001

Labor Policy & Unemployment

New evidence that losing your job is even more stressful for black Americans

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

A woman wears a sticker in multiple languages after voting in the primary election at a polling station in Venice, Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 5, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson - RC1BF5D43BD0

Up Front

How do we get more young people to vote as adults? Cash transfers to their parents could help

Thursday, July 5, 2018

The Council of Economic Advisers: 70 years of advising the president

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

People gather around a fire on the campground set up by the First Nations Indigenous Warriors (FNIW) and the American Indian Movement (AIM) on the Cote First Nation, near the town of Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada, August 6, 2017. REUTERS/Zachary Prong - RC16EC143680

Up Front

Why are Canada’s First Nations women dying at such an alarming rate?

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

A recent paycheck for Delores Leonard shows her hourly wage of $8.25 for working at a McDonald's Restaurant, the minimum wage in Illinois, in Chicago, Illinois, September 29, 2014. Leonard, a single mother raising two daughters, has been working at McDonald's for seven years and has never made more than minimum wage. Picture taken September 29, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1EAAH1MI601

Social Mobility Memos

Want kids to behave better? Raise family incomes

Tuesday, December 19, 2017