In this Post-Election America lecture, Teresa Ghilarducci (Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis) will discuss the political economy of the U.S. "rust belt".

Three midwestern states flipped the Electoral College for Trump in places that voted for Obama for President. What are the economic conditions of those counties and how does the long decline in manufacturing, the rise in globalization, and the decline in unions affected these voters now in the spotlight?

Teresa Ghilarducci is a labor economist and nationally-recognized expert in retirement security.

She holds the Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Chair in economic policy analysis and directs the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) that focuses on economic policy research and outreach.

Ghilarducci joined The New School in 2008 after 25 years as a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame. Her most recent book, How to Retire with Enough Money, cuts through the confusion, misinformation, and bad policy-making that keeps us spending or saving poorly. Her previous books include When I’m Sixty Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them  published in 2008, Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Employer Pensions, winner of an Association of American Publishers award in 1992, and Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets, published in 1995.

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