Heather Long is a Washington Post columnist and editorial board member. An expert on the economy, Heather appears regularly on MSNBC, Fox Business and Marketplace Radio to break down the numbers. Heather joined The Post in 2017 as the lead U.S. economic correspondent. She led coverage of the Trump tax cuts and trade wars, the Federal Reserve, and the pandemic recession. She was among the first to identify the "K shaped" recovery and Great Reassessment of work. She joined the editorial board in 2021. Heather is a former CNN reporter and opinion editor of her hometown paper, The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Heather has served on the boards of Wellesley College and Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pa. 

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