Notes
1 In the 1970s and 1980s, Briggs also served as a member of the nonprofit National Council on Employment Policy. In fact, he chaired that organization of academics and policy experts from 1985 to 1987.
2 Briggs also highlighted the tendency of employers to exploit both undocumented workers and temporary foreign workers.
3 This essay has focused on Briggs as a professor and economist. For discussions of his more personal side, see the obituary “Vernon M. Briggs, Jr.” (Citation2023) and the biographical essay by Bill Curington (Citation2010).