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The Jobs Crisis and What to do About It
Friday, March 26, 2010, 8:30AM to 10:15 AM
Friday, March 26, 2010, 8:30AM to 10:15 AM
The Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies
CUNY
25 West 43rd Street, 18th floor
New York, New York
A light breakfast will be provided.
Featuring:
- Katherine Newman - Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
- David Pedulla - Dept. of Sociology and Social Policy, Princeton University
- Philip Harvey- Professor of Law & Economics, Rutgers School of Law
- Gertrude Goldberg - Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition
RSVP by Monday, March 22, 2010, to Eloiza Morales at (212) 642-2029 or eloiza.morales [at] mail.cuny.edu
March 8, 2010
Dear Friend of the Institute:
As part of our spring 2010 series of labor breakfast forums, we are very pleased to announce a forum entitled “The Jobs Crisis and What to do About It.” This forum will be held on Friday, March 26th 2010, from 8:30 to 10:15 AM at the Murphy Institute, 25 W. 43rd St. 18th Floor, New York, NY 10036.
We are in the midst of a crisis of unemployment with an estimated 12 million jobs needed to get back to pre-recession levels of employment. The public debate on these issues, however, includes several assumptions that warrant examination. Unemployment didn’t suddenly emerge in the aftermath of the financial meltdown. The pre-recession period was, for instance, marked by chronic unemployment and low-wage jobs.
Further, when unemployment is broken down demographically, the disparities are enormous, ranging from under 2 percent for the highest income groups to 20 percent for the lowest. Unemployment among African Americans is projected to reach a 25-year high, with the national rate exceeding 17 percent. The unemployment rate for teenagers is 25 percent, and for black teenagers it is 42 percent. A jobs creation program that does not consider these issues risks becoming another stop-gap measure that ignores the most vulnerable sections of the population.
To what extent does the Obama administration’s proposed $15 billion jobs creation bill address the long-term questions of employment and underemployment? Are there better alternatives that ought to be considered? How can unemployment be reduced substantially while creating living wage jobs? What is the role of labor in building a movement that works not just for jobs but good jobs for all?
Our speakers will address these urgent questions. Katherine Newman is Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and author of several books, most recently co-author of Who Cares? Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age. She, along with her doctoral student David Pedulla, will detail how the jobs crisis has severely affected the lowest end of the labor market, and address the question of underemployment. Philip Harvey, Professor of Law & Economics, Rutgers School of Law, and co-author of America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities, argues for how a stimulus strategy more like the New Deal’s would succeed where the Obama administration’s stimulus plan has not. Gertrude Goldberg, chair of the National Jobs for All Coalition, and author, mostly recently of Poor Women in Rich Nations: The Feminization of Poverty Over the Life Course will report on social and political actions around the issue of unemployment.
This forum is jointly sponsored with the National Jobs for All Coalition. We hope you will join us in this important discussion.Please be sure to RSVP to Eloiza Morales at 212-642-2029 or eloiza.morales [at] mail.cuny.edu by Monday, March 22. We look forward to seeing you.
Sincerely,
Greg Mantsios
Director
Paula Finn
Associate Director
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