Eileen Appelbaum joined the Center for Economic Policy and Research in 2010 after eight years at Rutgers University as Professor and Director of the Center for Women and Work. Her research focuses on work processes and work-life practices of organizations and their implications for organizational effectiveness and for the quality of jobs. Her current research, joint with Rosemary Batt, examines the effects of private equity ownership of firms on managerial decision making, firm competitiveness and employee outcomes.

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Julia Henly’s research focuses on low-wage employment, child care and public policy with particular attention to how families use both formal policies and informal supports to manage work and caregiving responsibilities. She is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, University of Chicago and a research affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.

Ariel Kalil is a developmental psychologist who studies how economic conditions affect child and family functioning. Her projects have examined how transitions from welfare to work affect mothers and children, barriers to the employment of welfare recipients, as well as family processes and child development in female-headed, teenage-parent, and cohabiting-couple households. With funding from a William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award, she is currently conducting a multi-method study of the effects of parental job loss on child development.

Jodie Levin-Epstein's research focus is on paid leave and workplace flexibility, particularly as they impact low income workers. Her numerous CLASP publications include Getting Punched: The Job and Family Clock and Seizing the Moment: State Governments and the New Commitment to Reduce Poverty in America.  She has been involved in efforts to create paid sick days legislation, working to mobilize progressive businesses to support new labor standards. Ms. Levin-Epstein has also played a key role in the re-emergence of poverty in recent public discourse.

Jennifer Romich studies resources and economics in families, with a particular emphasis on low income workers, household budgets and families’ interactions with public policy.