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EARNCon Session: Unemployment Insurance Reform is a Racial Equity Imperative
September 30, 2022 @ 9:45 am - 11:00 am
Speakers
- Kyra Miller (Moderator), National Women’s Law Center (NWLC)
- Victor Sanchez, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
- Tiffany Ferrette, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
- Erika Washington, Make It Work Nevada
Session Description
In this session, panelists will discuss unemployment insurance (UI) developments at the state and federal levels and explain why UI reform is a racial equity imperative. The session will provide EARN groups opportunities to share and learn from each other’s recent experiences and strategies on state-level unemployment insurance reform and provide information about further opportunities for state UI advocates to connect.
The Economic Policy Institute would like to thank the following funders for their ongoing and generous support for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN):
- Anonymous
- AFL-CIO
- AFSCME
- American Federation of Teachers
- Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust
- Ford Foundation
- International Association of Machinists
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- Kresge Foundation
- National Association of Letter Carriers
- National Education Association
- Marguerite Casey Foundation
- Omidyar Network
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The Rockefeller Foundation
- Service Employees International Union
- Surdna Foundation
- UNITE HERE
- United Auto Workers
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters
- United Food and Commercial Workers
- United Steelworkers of America
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation