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Liberty Vittert

Liberty Vittert is a professor of the practice of data science at Washington University in St. Louis. She writes and broadcasts about statistics, public policy and the interpretation of data.

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DI has documented statements by Liberty Vittert on Labor Policy and U.S. Politics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Liberty Vittert

Liberty Vittert

Role at the time: WashU data scientist, in written testimony for the March 14, 2024 hearing

Condemned

Statement summary

Vittert argues that selected-company trials cannot establish the effects of a nationwide shorter workweek.

“significant and insurmountable doubt on the proposal’s sustainability in the American work economy”
Read the original text (opens in a new tab)Liberty Vittert: written Senate testimony on shorter-workweek studiesComplete three-page written testimony
Why we used this label

The reference point is the shorter-workweek proposal. Vittert criticizes its evidentiary basis and sustainability.

Read statementShould Congress Enact Bernie Sanders’s 32-Hour Workweek Bill?

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