Michael R. Strain
Director of Economic Policy Studies and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute
Strain’s research and writing span a wide range of areas, including labor markets, public finance, social policy, and macroeconomics. He is the author of The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It) (Templeton Press, 2020), in which he examines long-term trends in economic outcomes for typical workers and households. He has published over 50 articles in academic and policy journals and has edited four volumes on economic and policy issues, including What Has Happened to the American Working Class Since the Great Recession? (American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021) and The US Labor Market: Questions and Challenges for Public Policy (AEI Press, 2016). He was a member of the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Poverty and Opportunity, which published in 2015 the report, Opportunity, Responsibility, and Security: A Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty and Restoring the American Dream. Strain is also Professor of Practice in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.
