betsy stevenson, by the way, paul is to my far right.betsy stevenson, sitting in the middle, is an associate professor of public policy at the gerald r. school of public policy at the university of michigan. mopg her many -- among her many past roles, she served as the chief economist of the u.s. department of labor from 2010 to 2011. she is, as you might have guessed, a labor economist. she's published widely in leading economic journals about the impact of public policies on the labor market with a focus on women and families and the value of subjective well being for policy analysis. some of you may also know her from her many media appearances, among other things she's a columnist for bloomberg view. ken troske, sitting to my immediate right s the senior associate dean of the gadsden school college of business at the william b. sturgell professor of economics at the university of kentucky. he's also a research fellow with the institute for the study of labor in bonn, germany. his primary research areas are labor and human resources e