Jodie Levin-Epstein
Jodie Levin-Epstein is deputy director of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Her focus is on working conditions—issues such as paid leave and workplace flexibility, particularly as they impact low income workers. Her numerous CLASP publications include Getting Punched: The Job and Family Clock and Seizing the Moment: State Governments and the New Commitment to Reduce Poverty in America. Ms. Levin-Epstein was also recently published in Mother Load, a special report by The American Prospect. She has been involved in efforts to create paid sick days legislation, working to mobilize progressive businesses to support new labor standards. Ms. Levin-Epstein has also played a key role in the re-emergence of poverty in recent public discourse. Her 2006 report Targeting Poverty: Aim at a Bull's Eye describes and identifies recent efforts around the nation to set targets for the elimination or reduction of poverty. In addition, Ms. Levin-Epstein is responsible for creating, managing, and hosting CLASP's widely acclaimed national audio conferences on low-income and poverty issues. Her earlier work with CLASP included initiating a network of state contacts and establishing CLASP's reproductive health project. Prior to joining CLASP, Ms. Levin-Epstein was the deputy director of Advocates for Youth. She also has served as an aide to Sen. Dick Clark and as a political appointee at the Department of Agriculture in the Carter administration. She was selected to be a member of several prestigious working groups, including a White House Task Force on Hunger and the National Academy of Sciences World Hunger Study Team. Ms. Levin-Epstein is a graduate of Grinnell College
