An Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century

An Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century

 A conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Columbia University

Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare & Equity

Co-sponsors:  Columbia University Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare & Equity; the Roosevelt Institute; The Nation, The National Jobs for All Coalition; Demos; Dollars & Sense; Workers Defense League; Modern Money Network, Greater New York, Labor Religion Coalition, The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR

    Friday, October 18, 2013

   9:00 AM-4:30 PM  (breakfast at 8:30 AM)

   Columbia University Faculty House

   64 Morningside Dr., Manhattan

   $20 pre-registration; $25 at door (includes breakfast and lunch)    

   $10 low-income, unemployed, students

In 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed an Economic Bill of Rights whose guarantees included employment at living wages, housing, medical care, education and old age security.  This conference, will consider FDR’s proposal in light of subsequent history.  Have any of those rights originally proposed  been achieved?  What are their interconnections,?  How does FDR’s Bill of Rights need to be updated for the 21st Century?  How can we secure these rights in the present political climate? 

Speakers:  The Honorable John Conyers (D-MI); David Woolner, Senior Fellow and Resident Hyde Park Historian, The Roosevelt Institute; Philip Harvey, Prof. of Law and Economics, Rutgers University; William Quigley, Prof. of Law, Loyola University; Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Professor Emerita of Social Policy, Adelphi University; Sheila D. Collins, Professor Emerita of Political Science, William Paterson University; Helen Lachs Ginsburg, Professor Emerita of Economics, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Dean Baker, Co-Director Center for Economic and Policy Research; William Darity, Jr. , Professor of Public Policy, African and African-American Studies and Economics, Duke University; Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher, The Nation; Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary; ; Michael Lighty, Director of Public Policy, California Nurses’ Association/National Nurses United; Chris Policano, Director of Communications, AFSCME; Peter Marcuse, Prof. Emeritus of Urban Planning, Columbia University.

Conference Welcome:  Robert Pollack, Director, Columbia University Seminars Program; Panel Chairs: June Zaccone, Assoc. Prof. Emerita of Economics, Hofstra University; Eduardo Rosario, Executive Board, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (NYC Chapter); Chuck Bell, Programs Director, Consumers Union; Logan Martinez, Outreach Coordinator, National Jobs for All Coalition, the Jobs For All Campaign, and the Miami Valley Full Employment Council, President of Organize! Ohio;

For further information and registration:  http://www.economicbillofrights.net