1/5/1901 — #wmnhist #STEMfem Aryness Joy Wickens, economist, statistician, #gov official, b. Bellingham, Washington. Noted economist, key figure in the development of the U.S. Government’s cost-of-living index, now the Consumer Price Index. Assistant and later deputy Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor (1946-61); special economic advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Labor (1961). Served on the advisory board of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Director of statistical studies for the Commission on Federal Paperwork (1976).
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