She spent the next several years researching issues like predatory mortgage lending, credit card debt, and minimum wage laws, all of which came to the fore of national politics several years later, during the financial crisis.
After graduation, she briefly worked in Barcelona and Hollywood, then settled in New York City to work as an economic policy researcher for the relatively new, progressive think tank Demos. After attending the prestigious Milton Academy boarding school in Massachusetts, she went to Yale University, where she completed her degree in American Studies in 2001. Heather McGhee was born and raised in a middle-class Black neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, an upbringing that convinced her to dedicate her career to fighting inequality in the United States.
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