Jodie T. Allen has been a senior editor at the Pew Research Center since January 2005. She joined the Pew Center from '' U.S. News & World Report'' where she was a managing editor and the business editor and also wrote a bi-weekly column on the political economy. She came to ''U.S. News'' from ''

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'', where she was the Washington bureau chief. Before joining ''Slate'', she was the editor of Outlook, the Sunday commentary section of ''

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''. She has also been an editorial writer and business columnist with the ''Post''. Previously she held positions in US government, including Dep. Asst. Secretary of Labor for Policy and Research, as well as in private organizations including

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, the

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and the

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. She has been a member of the

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’s Advisory Board, the

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, th
National Academy of Social Insurance
and the

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Advisory Board. In 1960, she married

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alumnus lawyer George V. Allen Jr., a conservationist who severed as the deputy assistant administrator in the EPA at its founding. He also served on the boards of

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of Metropolitan Washington
American Rivers
and the

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. When his health condition deteriorated due to

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, she retired from the Pew Research Center in 2011.

References

External links

Jodie Allen's blog at USNews.com
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