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Shai Akabas

Shai Akabas is BPC’s director of economic policy. He has conducted research on a variety of economic policy issues, including the federal budget, retirement security, and the financing of higher education. Akabas joined BPC in 2010 and staffed the Domenici-Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force that year. He also assisted Jerome H. Powell, now Chairman of the Federal Reserve, in his work on the federal debt limit. For the past several years, Akabas has steered BPC’s Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings, co-chaired by former Senator Kent Conrad and the Honorable James B. Lockhart III.

Akabas has been interviewed by publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and has published op-eds in The Hill and The Christian Science Monitor. He has been featured as an expert guest several times on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.

RELATED RESOURCES

• Hoagland, G. William, Ben Gitis, Shai Akabas. "It Doesn’t Have to Be All or Nothing: How Unemployment Insurance Could Support Work and Continue to Provide Financial Relief." Bipartisan Policy Center, July 8th, 2020.

• Gladstone, Nicko, Shai Akabas, Nora Cahill, Charlotte Houghton. "Racial Inequities Have Long Existed in the Economy. A New BPC Survey Shows COVID-19 Made Them Worse." Bipartisan Policy Center, June 22nd, 2020.

• Watkins, Kara, Shai Akabas. "The savings gap for Americans is a key component of economic stability -- here’s what we can do about it." Bipartisan Policy Center, July 1st, 2020.

• Elis, Niv. "Women suffering steeper job losses in COVID-19 economy." The Hill, May 25th, 2020.