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James Sherk is the Bradley Fellow in Labor Policy at The Heritage Foundation.

As the Bradley Fellow, Sherk will continue his work on the minimum wage, card check, rising standards of living and other tax, labor and economic issues in Heritage's Center for Data Analysis.

Sherk's fellowship is supported by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee. The foundation is "devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it."

Sherk joined Heritage in 2006 after interning there in the summer of 2003.

He graduated from Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics. Sherk then pursued graduate studies in economics at the University of Rochester in New York, where he concentrated in econometrics and labor economics. He received his master's degree in economics from Rochester in January 2006.