We are excited to bring the network together in Cleveland, Ohio for our first in-person EARNCon in three years! We hope you’ll join us this year in Cleveland at the Westin Cleveland Downtown from Wednesday, September 28 – Friday, September 30, 2022.
EARNCon is the network’s premier opportunity to strategize together, build relationships, and collectively shape a worker-centered state and local research and policy agenda for 2023 and beyond—highlighting campaign approaches and policy solutions for achieving racial, economic, and gender justice while also strengthening our community of researchers, policy analysts, labor partners, and grassroots organizers.
Check back soon for EARNCon 2022 updates!
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Welcome to EARNConversations: Transformative Investments in Workers, Communities, and Job Quality
September 27, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Speakers
- Naomi Walker (Moderator), Director of EARN, Economic Policy Institute
- Melissa Boteach, Vice President for Income Security and Child Care/Early Learning, National Women’s Law Center
- Kitty Richards, Director of State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, U.S. Treasury Office of Recovery Program
- Branden Snyder, Executive Director, Detroit Action
- Amy Sugimori, Director of Policy and Legislation, 32BJ SEIU
Session Description
In this session, speakers will reflect on critical learnings from the pandemic and discuss how they should be used to shape future policy. We will discuss ways state and local governments can make transformative investments in public infrastructure, high-quality jobs, public health systems, and worker supports using unprecedented levels of Federal support. Speakers will address how state and local recovery fund impact advocates and organizers, how resources can be leveraged to improve wages and working conditions, the need for investments in human capital, and strategies to engage in the political process to use federal funds.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation