Policy
A place-based economic development strategy to foster rural U.S. prosperity (opens in a new tab)
Essays SEP 11, 2025
By: Gbenga Ajilore
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Political Economy & Democracy
Gbenga Ajilore is the chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Previously, he served as a senior advisor in the Office of the Undersecretary for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Biden administration, and was a senior economist at the Center for American Progress and a tenured associate professor of economics at the University of Toledo.
He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Claremont Graduate University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Authored by Gbenga Ajilore
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