UMKC Employment Conference Final Program Info

["Mathew Forstater" <forstate@xxxxxxxx>]

"Public Service Employment Assurance:

Lessons from the Past, Looking to the Future"

An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Friday, March 17^th — 8:00 AM to 5:45 PM — Room 106

University Center — University of Missouri - Kansas City

5000 Holmes Rd, Kansas City, MO 64110

Program

8:00am-8:30am Coffee and Fruit

8:30am-9:00am

Welcome: James Durig, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Opening Remarks: Mathew Forstater, Director, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability

 

Morning Session

9:00am-12:30pm

Public Service Employment in Historical Perspective

Presiding: James Sturgeon, University of Missouri-Kansas City

 

"Full-Employment: The Missing Entitlement, 1935-1996"

Gertrude Goldberg, Adelphi University and National Jobs for All Coalition

 

"Combating Joblessness: An Assessment of the Principal Strategies that have Influenced the Development of American Employment and Social Welfare Law in the Twentieth Century"

Philip Harvey, Rutgers Law School

 

"Government Work Programs in Historical Perspective"

Nancy Rose, California State University-San Bernardino

 

"The Full Employment Approach to Reducing Black Poverty and Unemployment"

Mathew Forstater, University of Missouri-Kansas City

 

Lunch

12:30pm–2:00pm

Keynote Address:

"If We're So Smart...Why Good Ideas Are Not Enough"

Sumner Rosen, Columbia University

 

Afternoon Session

2:15pm-5:45pm

Toward Full Employment: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21^st Century

Presiding: Peter Eaton, University of Missouri-Kansas City

 

"Public Service Employment-Assured Jobs Program"

L. Randall Wray, University of Missouri-Kansas City

 

"Political Constraints on the Development of a Universal Public Employment Program"

Joel Blau, State University of New York at Stony Brook

 

"Challenges to and Opportunities for Legislating Job Creation Programs in Washington"

Bill Grady, Chief of Staff to Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) (affiliation listed for identification only)

 

"Barriers to the Prevention of Unemployment in the United States"

Harold Oaklander, International Industrial Relations Association

 

PLEASE PRE-REGISTER:

The event is free and open to the public.  We do ask, however, that those planning to attend pre-registrater in order that we may adequately plan for meals. Please RSVP via email: tchernevap@xxxxxxxx ;by phone: (816) 235-5835; or by fax (816) 235-6558.