Seminars

Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity

Year Founded 1987

Seminar # 613

StatusActive

The seminar focuses on the analytical and policy issues related to full employment, social welfare, and equity. These include crossnational perspectives, primarily in other industrialized economies. The purpose is to identify and clarify the more difficult and central intellectual questions which relate to and affect the national commitment and capability to assure full employment, social welfare, and equity over long periods.

Chair/s

Gertrude S. Goldberg

Rapporteur/s

Carolin Klein

External Website

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Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

02
Mar

March 2, 20267:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Zoom

Systemic Injustice, Mass Homelessness, and the Debate over Incrementalism

Speaker/s

Dave Giffen, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless

Scheduled

27
Apr

April 27, 20267:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

Revisiting FDR’s Second Bill of Rights in Light of Modern Challenges

Speaker/s

Thomas Lininger, University of Oregon

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

02
Feb

February 2, 20267:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Zoom

Green Growth or Degrowth? Tackling the Climate Crisis through Full Employment

Speaker/s

Mark Paul, Rutgers University

Scheduled

01
Dec

December 1, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Zoom

What Will It Take to Implement a National Full Employment Policy?

Speaker/s

Demetra Smith Nightingale, Urban Institute

Scheduled

10
Nov

November 10, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Zoom

The Fightback: Advocacy and Movement Building to Oppose Harsh Cuts to Public Services and Social Welfare Programs

Speaker/s

LaToya B. Parker, Senior Researcher in the Office of the President at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Deborah Weinstein, Senior Director of Public Policy, Coalition for Human Needs

Raina Hackett, Senior Legislative Assistant for Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12)

Discussant/s

Charles Bell, National Jobs for All Network

Scheduled

27
Oct

October 27, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Faculty House

Baby Bonds, Job Guarantee, and Building a Just Economy

Speaker/s

David Radcliffe, The New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy

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