SOCIAL SECURITY CONFERENCE

["Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx>]

Center for Full Employment and Price Stability

The Social Security 'Crisis': Critical Analysis and Solutions

November 12, 2001	8:30am-5:00pm

University of Missouri - Kansas City - University Center - Room 106

Conference Schedule

9:00am		REPORTS AND PROJECTIONS: SOME CRITICAL ANALYSES

"Killing Social Security Softly with Faux Kindness:
The Draft Report by the President's Commission on Social Security
Reform"
		L. Randall Wray, C-FEPS, University of Missouri - Kansas
City

"What Happened to the Social Security Surplus? - An Examination of the
Trustees' Projections"
		Max J. Skidmore, University of Missouri - Kansas City

10:30am		PRIVATIZATION

"Privatizing Social Security to Inflate Stock Market Prices"
		Michael Hudson, Institute for the Study of Long Term
Economic Trends

"Seven Good Reasons Not To Privatize Social Security"
		Barbara R. Bergmann, American University and University
of Maryland

12:00pm		LUNCH (free for those who pre-register - call
816-235-1153)

1:00pm		FINANCIAL ISSUES AND GLOBALIZATION

"Financial Aspects of the Social Security 'Problem'"
		Stephanie Bell, C-FEPS, University of Missouri - Kansas
City

"Globalization, Neoliberalism and the Attack on Social Security"
		Christopher Niggle, University of California - Redlands

2:00		SOLUTIONS: SOCIAL SECURITY AND SOCIAL POLICY

"Making Social Security Even Better: A Progressive Reform Agenda"
		Thomas I. Palley, AFL-CIO

"After Social Security: A Postindustrial Ethic for Social Policy"
		Sanford F. Schram, Bryn Mawr College

3:30pm		SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE ELDERLY

"Aging and the Market in the United States"
		Ellen Frank, Emmanuel College

"Careless Words: How the Misleading Debate Over Social Security
Will Bring Us Ham & Eggs in the 21st Century"
		Daniel J. B. Mitchell, University of California - Los
Angeles


The conference is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be
provided.
For more information, please call 816-235-1153, or email
pinkhamk@xxxxxxxx