Marc Bendick, Jr. is an economist (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) with 30 years’ research and policy experience in employment practices. He has been an advisor to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), U.S. Department of Labor, and U.S. Department of Justice, as well as Fortune 500 corporations. He has also been an expert witness in more than 150 cases, including race, gender, age or disability class actions against Abercrombie and Fitch, Amtrak, Best Buy, Chevron, Costco, Denny’s, Fedex, Ford, GE, Georgia Pacific, Home Depot, Morgan Stanley, Nestle, Northwest Airlines, Publix, State Farm Insurance, Taco Bell, UPS, United Airlines, Walgreens, and Wal-Mart.

Mary Lou Egan is an economist (MBA and Ph.D., George Washington University) with 25 years’ research and policy experience in business and industry analysis. She has been an advisor to the Commission of the European Union, Ford Foundation, International Labor Organization, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the World Bank. She has also taught corporate strategy and marketing at George Washington University, the Helsinki School of Economics, and Ecole Supérieure de Commerce and Management (France).

Since 1984, Marc and Mary Lou have been co-principals in Bendick and Egan Economic Consultants, Inc., 4411 Westover Place, NW, Washington, DC 20016 (202) 686-0245, bendickegan@mindspring.com. Their website, www.bendickegan.com, offers many of their more than 150 research publications, including books, articles in scholarly journals, and Congressional testimony.