Dr. Nela Richardson leads the team at ADP Research, an independent and reliable source of economic data tailored to global and local business leaders, policymakers, and the public. Her areas of expertise include finance, technology, housing, and labor. Richardson and her team of researchers, data scientists, and financial market experts deploy proprietary ADP data, including the anonymized payroll records of more than 25 million employees and a monthly global survey that has reached more than half a million workers worldwide, to generate discoveries about the world of work. She is a regular contributor to top-tier media outlets, including Bloomberg and American Public Media’s Marketplace, and has appeared on CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, CNN, and Yahoo! Finance, among others.

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