Samuel L. Myers Jr. (born 9 March 1949) is an American economist and Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
[3][4] In 2007, Myers was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
He was born deaf, as was his mother and his maternal grandfather.
[6] He graduated from Morgan State and then did his doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[2] He has authored or edited several books and dozens of papers using applied econometric techniques to study racial inequality in law enforcement, procurement and contracting, housing, faculty employment, food availability, family structure, and government aid.