Nancy Cleeland

Nancy Cleeland

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Nancy Cleeland is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with extensive background in labor, immigration and international trade. She left the newspaper business in the summer of 2007, and now writes for the Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that researches the impact of economic trends and policies on working people in the United States and around the world. During a decade at the Los Angeles Times, Cleeland covered major labor disputes, including a port shutdown and several regional strikes, and exposed harsh conditions faced by immigrant workers. She was a lead writer on a 2004 series about Wal-Mart's labor policies and sourcing practices that won the Pulitzer and Polk awards. Prior to Los Angeles, she was based in Mexico City as bureau chief for Copley News Service. Cleeland can be reached at ncleeland@epi.org.

Blog Entries by Nancy Cleeland

Don't Wait to Boost the Economy

Posted January 15, 2008 | 04:09 PM (EST)


Almost overnight, the conversation in Washington has moved from placing odds on a future recession to the likelihood that one is already here. In other words, the politicians and policy wonks have caught up with the bulk of Americans, who've seen this coming for months. Now the wrangling...

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Reinventing Myself in a Changing Journalistic Landscape

9 Comments | Posted January 11, 2008 | 12:14 PM (EST)

Six months ago, I took a buyout from a shrinking Los Angeles Times and wrote about it here. I didn't know what would come next. Certainly, I couldn't have predicted where that step would take me.

Now I'm across the country at an influential Washington D.C. think tank -- the...

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Why I'm Leaving The L.A. Times

Posted May 28, 2007 | 09:35 PM (EST)

After 10 years, hundreds of bylines and some of the best experiences of my professional life, I'm leaving the Los Angeles Times at the end of this month, along with 56 newsroom colleagues. We each have our reasons for taking the latest buyout offer from Chicago-based Tribune Company. In my...

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