Gary Hoover

America At 250: Minnesota Ranks First, Louisiana Last, And No State Is Getting Happier

Funding for this report came from Tulane University and the Murphy Institute at Tulane. Murphy Institute director Gary Hoover also serves on the project’s Board of Directors. All board members participated as unpaid volunteers. Data from the General Social Survey was used under license from the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center (NORC); the authors emphasize that their analysis and conclusions do not reflect the views of NORC.

Financial well-being has dropped among Black Americans and young people, Fed report finds

Gary Hoover, an economist at Tulane University, said the report underscores what economists have already been saying about the economy: It's K-shaped, or increasingly split into haves and have-nots.

Consumers are still spending, despite low confidence in the economy

Gary Hoover, an economics professor at Tulane University, said he likes to eat a small cake or pie for dessert at lunch every day. Those used to cost 84 cents a piece, he said. Now, they’re up to 93 cents.

'Ladder or Lottery': Tulane professor examines barriers to economic growth

Gary Hoover is the executive director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University, a professor of economics and an affiliate professor of law. From 2015 to 2020, he was a President’s Associates Presidential Professor and the Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Oklahoma.

Is the system failing when hard work, education not enough?

Gary Hoover is a professor and the executive director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University and an economist whose work focuses on economics, race, inequality and public policy. He is the author of "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead." He discusses his book, which questions the presumption that regardless of where people start out, they will get ahead by simply working hard and playing by the rules.

What does Jerome Powell mean when he calls the economy “resilient?”

Powell’s use of the word “resilient” caught the attention of economist Gary Hoover at Tulane University. He wondered if the Fed Chair really meant resistant.

Inflation may be losing momentum. But not everywhere.

“It’s one of the more baffling things that is happening in this economy, and it’s gotta be a combination of pandemic and other geopolitical factors that are taking place,” said Gary Hoover, an economist at Tulane University.

Black unemployment seems to be rising. But other indicators of Black employment are strong.

“If there’s a three or four month trend upward, then there still might be something worth worrying about,” said economist Gary Hoover at Tulane University. He said Black workers — with on-average less training and experience — tend to be more vulnerable to job-loss.

Why does the government have 6 unemployment rates?

Economist Gary Hoover at Tulane University watches all the rates, but said he pays special attention to the broadest unemployment measures when tracking longer-term trends. He’s most concerned “about what’s happening with the marginally attached part of the workforce, on the periphery of the economy.”

Government job cuts have disproportionate effect on Black federal workers

This historical legacy goes way back. The predecessor to the Postal Service began hiring newly emancipated slaves after the Civil War. And, said Tulane University economist Gary Hoover, starting in the 1960s, government agencies vigorously adopted anti-discrimination policies. That led to more and better jobs for Black applicants than they could find in the private sector.

If unemployment rises, could that offset tariff-driven inflation?

However, even if demand goes down and tariff-driven inflation cools, inflation will remain as long as those tariffs are in place, said Gary Hoover, an economics professor at Tulane University.

California Panel Calls for Billions in Reparations for Black Residents

“This is about closing the income and racial wealth gap in this country, and this is a step,” Gary Hoover, an economics professor at Tulane University who has studied reparations, said in an interview. “Wealth is sticky and is able to be transferred from generations. Reparations can close that stickiness.”

Black Unemployment is Surging Under Donald Trump

"I think part of the surge over the last few months is that Black workers were overrepresented in the federal workforce," said Gary Hoover, a professor at Tulane University's Department of Economics.