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Professor Rodgers' research examines issues in labor economics and the economics of social problems. Currently, he is identifying the causes of the current recovery’s historically weak job creation and its consequences for the earnings and employment of Americans. At the state level, Rodgers is conducting a comprehensive study of the status of New Jersey’s minorities for the State Employment Training Administration. He served as a member of the Acting Governor’s Benefits Review Task Force from May 2005 to December 2005 and now serves on Governor Corzine’s New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Reform.
He has appointments as a member of the Graduate Faculty at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations and senior research affiliate at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He currently directs the American Economic Association’s Pipeline Project and recently served as Chair of the Association’s Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Economics Profession. He holds memberships on the Center for American Progress’ Academic Advisory Board, the National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality Advisory Board, the Economic Policy Institute’s Research Advisory Board, and the board of the University of Kentucky’s Center for Poverty Research. Locally, Rodgers serves on the Board of Directors for the Somerset County United Way and the United Way of Tri-State’s Regional Operating Council.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Professor Rodgers served as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2000 to 2001, and he was the Frances L. and Edwin L. Professor Cummings of Economics at the College of William and Mary.
His articles have appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Monthly Labor Review, the New York Federal Reserve’s Economic Policy Review, the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Family Economics and Nutrition Review, and the Review of Black Political Economy. In 2000, he co-edited Prosperity for All (Russell Sage Foundation). In 2006, he has had articles published by the Center for American Progress, the Southern Economic Journal. His edited volume The Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination (Edgar Elgar) came out May 2006.
He has extensive media experience. Rodgers' expertise is frequently called upon by journalists for articles in The New York Times, U.S.A. Today, Business Week, and other publications. He has been a guest on CNBC and CNNfn and many radio talk shows.