ABOUT R. MARK ROGERS

Rogers Economics, Inc. is headed by R. Mark Rogers, a nationally renowned economist. Prior to private practice, Rogers became a 19-year veteran economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. His primary roles at the Atlanta Fed were macroeconomic forecast coordinator for the Macropolicy Group and the supervising economist for the Atlanta Fed's Survey of Southeastern Manufacturing. Rogers became an expert in analysis of economic data and indicators and in economic forecasting. He is the author of the The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economic Indicators (Alpha Books, September 2009). Rogers also authored Handbook of Key Economic Indicators, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing). He has lectured nationally on the use and analysisof economic data with the Institute for Professional Education, Arlington, VA. Rogers currently is senior U.S. economist for Econoday (Econoday.com), a Lafayette, California-based firm that specializes in providing economic data and analysis for investors and traders in financial markets.

As an independent consultant and expert witness, Rogers has consulted on forensic economics issues of personal injury and economic damages and on child support. He has regularly published about analysis of economic conditions and on child costs in legal and economics publications.

Rogers was a governor's appointee to the Georgia Commission on Child Support, 1998, and was the commission's only member economist. In this role, Rogers engaged in economic research regarding the origins of states' guidelines and conflict with long-established, mainstream economic research and theory. His child cost research included, but was not limited to: review of child support guideline methodologies, child costs by differing methodologies, analysis of tax treatment for custodial and non-custodial parents, and standards of living for custodial and non-custodial parents.

Rogers has consulted on child cost issues for clients in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Washington State. Rogers has testified on child support issues before legislative committees in Georgia, Minnesota, and Virginia and by invitation before the U.S. Congress. He has presented to child support review commissions in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia.