Alan Krueger, Democratic labor economist, dies at 58

Alan Krueger, a prominent labor economist who was President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, died this past weekend. He was 58.

Krueger, a Princeton economist, served as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under Obama and as the chief economic adviser at the Labor Department under President Bill Clinton. A leading scholar on minimum wage and unemployment, Krueger joined the Princeton faculty in 1987.

"Alan will be deeply missed by his students and colleagues," Princeton said in a statement. The university did not specify the cause of death.

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