Helen Lachs Ginsburg

Helen Lachs Ginsburg (June 25, 1929 – October 8, 2020) was an American economist, activist and professor at Brooklyn College. She was a specialist in labor and social welfare, studying the public policy's implications of full employment in the United States and Sweden. A "scholar-activist", Ginsburg was an early proponent of the living wage and a founding member of the National Committee for Full Employment, co-chaired by Coretta Scott King. She authored ''Full Employment and Public Policy: The U.S. and Sweden'' (1983), a cross-national economic study of employment policy, and co-authored ''Jobs for All: A Plan for the Revitalization of America'' (1994), a manifesto for full employment. Provided by Wikipedia