David Madland

Experience

1. Senior Fellow

   Center for American Progress

   Jan 2016 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Called “one of the nation’s wisest\" labor scholars by Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.• Frequent television guest, appearing on PBS’s NewsHour and CNN’s Crossfire, among other places.• Research covered in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.• Testify before Congress and state legislatures, and brief senior administration officials.• \"Creating a North Star for how we increase workers’ power in the economy and democracy,” according to Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union. • Author of Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States (Cornell University Press, 2021), which helped put sectoral bargaining on the political agenda, and Hollowed Out: Why the Economy Doesn’t Work Without a Strong Middle Class (University of California Press, 2015), a pioneering critique of trickle-down economics that has helped policymakers understand that the economy grows from the middle out and bottom up—not the top down.