Helen Lachs Ginsburg (June 25, 1929 – October 8, 2020) was an economist, activist and professor at Brooklyn College. She was a specialist in labor and social welfare, studying the public policy's implications of full employment in the United States and Sweden. A "scholar-activist", Ginsburg was an early proponent of the living wage and a founding member of the , co-chaired by Coretta Scott King. She authored Full Employment and Public Policy: The U.S. and Sweden (1983), a cross-national economic study of employment policy, and co-authored Jobs for All: A Plan for the Revitalization of America (1994), a manifesto for full employment.