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Shai Akabas is Vice President for Economic Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), where he leads work on the federal budget, debt limit, retirement security, student debt, and infrastructure finance. Before joining BPC in 2012, he served as a staff attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and holds a degree from Columbia Law School.