Ney bridges policy and data to understand U.S. income inequality.
Nora Delaney
Jeremy Ney grew up in Brooklyn thinking that the American dream was accessible to everyone. He watched as his grandfather started his own supermarket business from nothing, and as his father helped grow that family business for many years. He watched his mother rise as a lawyer in the public and private sectors through hard work and ingenuity. But when the 2008 financial crisis hit, Ney and his family realized that the door to opportunity could slam shut quickly. Friends and family lost their jobs seemingly overnight, and he remembers biking past shuttered stores that had been in the neighborhood for years.