Mary Gable

Mary Gable joined AFSCME in January 2019. She is a policy analyst, advocate, researcher, and editor with two decades of experience helping labor-based and anti-poverty organizations to increase working-class power. Expertise in collecting and analyzing data, and using the findings to formulate policies and design programs that improve the lives of working families. Personal and professional experience living and working in communities affected by—and banding together to end—obscene levels of inequality.

Before AFSCME Gable was the Policy Analyst at the National Alliance to End Homelessness, and prior to that at AFL-CIO. Earlier in her career, she was at the Economic Policy Institute from 2006 until 2013. She coordinated activities of state and local organizations through the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) and analyzed public policies affecting low-income people. She previously directed programs serving people in poverty nationwide and conducted an independent evaluation of New Jersey’s welfare program. Her areas of interest include poverty, social services and welfare policy, child care, low-wage work, and homelessness.