Research Associate Mathew Forstater is associate professor of economics and black studies and director, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri–Kansas City. He was previously a visiting scholar at the Levy Institute from 1997 to 1999 and taught at Bard College and Gettysburg College from 1992 to 1997, where he was the recipient of a number of teaching awards and recognitions. Forstater received his B.A. (summa cum laude) in African American Studies from Temple University (1987) and an M.A. (Honors, 1993) and Ph.D. (1996) in economics from the New School for Social Research, New York. He has served as an economic advisor in a variety of contexts, including a mission sponsored by the ILO in 2002 to advise Argentina’s Ministry of Labor, where his proposals for increases in the minimum wage and a public employment program were made into law.