Catherine Ann Edwards — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries

“We are not building the federal highway system. We are not tackling climate change. We are not making generational investments in children.”

— Labor economist Catherine Ann Edwards, on how the government is using debt for regular spending, not growth.

“If you were to go back and look at the average productivity of the US worker over the past 90 years, you will not see a single technological innovation.”

— Catherine Ann Edwards (08:33)

“The economy has been the closest a $30 trillion economy could be to standing still. The market's not crashing, but there's a difference between free fall and firing on all cylinders.”

— Catherine Edwards

“If you make working and being a parent difficult, women will bear the brunt of that. This is just one of a really depressing portfolio of statistics you could pull.”

— Catherine Edwards

“I mean, can you imagine you have the same job and the same wage and the same salary and you both get laid off on the same day and they get four times the unemployment as you? Can you imagine if social security look like that?”

— Catherine Ann Edwards, on state-by-state benefit disparities

“You don't have to like unemployed people. In fact, go on hating them. This is just about a more efficient productive economy.”

— Catherine Ann Edwards, reframing UI as an economic efficiency tool

“The economy is slowly slowing down. Most of the job growth we've seen over the last year came from services that do not reflect economic strength, but rather population, things like healthcare and education services and many of our more cyclical sectors are down for the year. That's not a good sign.”

— Catherine Ann Edwards