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SUMMARY:EARNCon 2024
DESCRIPTION:Due to Tropical Storm Francine\, EARNCON 2024 will no longer be an in-person event.\nVirtual offerings for some of the conference content are listed below. Details\, including Zoom links\, have been sent out over email. These sessions are free and open to all members of the EARN community. We will hold a new convening in New Orleans at some point in 2025. \nEARNCon is headed to “The Big Easy” in 2024 2025!\nWe are planning to host EARNCon in New Orleans at some point in 2025. Exact timing is TBD. New Orleans has a rich history\, one that is inextricably tied to racial\, economic\, and social justice movements. For example\, on November 8\, 1892\, 30\,000 factory and dock workers in New Orleans called for a general strike to demand a union. These workers were later joined by musicians\, clothing workers\, clerks\, utility workers\, streetcar drivers\, and printers. Importantly\, Black and white workers came together to demand a union\, pushing back against efforts to divide workers by race. The success of these workers remains an inspiration for broad-based\, multi-racial organizing in the South as we see organized labor and their allies\, including EARN groups\, continue to make inroads today. \nAs we prepare to convene in New Orleans\, LA\, we are coming with a fighting spirit like that which animated the workers in their call for a general strike in 1892. We come with a dedication and continued commitment to realize racial\, economic\, and gender justice not just in the South but every state across the country. \nThe conference will include discussions on: \n\nSupporting worker organizing\nImmigration and migrant worker rights\nPolicies to support children\, families\, and early childhood education\nCoalition building within and across states\nLeveraging federal funding to advance equity and create good jobs\n\nVirtual EARNCon 2024 – Agenda Summary\n \n\n\n\nThursday\, September 12\, 2024\n\n\n11:00 AM – 12:00 PM\nExploring the Power of Procurement \nDefending Public Schools\n\n\n1:00 – 2:00 PM\nPREE Plenary Session: Facts\, Fiction and Countering the Anti-DEI Backlash\n\n\n3:00 – 4:00 PM\nState and Local Strategies for Empowering Immigrants \nTranslating Federal Infrastructure & Clean Energy Investments into Good Jobs\n\n\n4:00 – 5:00 PM\nEARN Advancing Econ Justice for Children & Families Cohort Meeting (AEJCF grantees only)\n\n\n  \nFriday\, September 12\, 2024\n\n\n11:00 AM – 12:00 PM\nMore Than a Red State Problem: Addressing the Spread of Anti-Worker Legislation \nHow the Contemporary Economy Shapes the Fight for the Minimum Wage\n\n\n1:00 – 2:00 PM\nPlenary Session: Seizing the Organizing Moment\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2024/
LOCATION:Virtual: Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231007
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
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SUMMARY:EARNCon 2023
DESCRIPTION:EARNCon 2023 will lay the groundwork needed for a state- and local-worker-centered research and policy agenda for 2024 and beyond\, highlighting approaches and solutions for racial\, economic\, and gender justice while also building and strengthening a community of researchers\, policy analysts\, and grassroots organizers. We’re excited to be partnering again with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race\, Ethnicity\, and the Economy (PREE)\, which is dedicated to exploring how race\, ethnicity\, gender\, and class intersect to affect economic outcomes in the United States so that we can craft policies that produce equitable prosperity and opportunity. \nRegistration\nRegistration is now open! Please register here. \nDon’t forget to book your hotel using the link found under the Location and Accommodation section below. \nLocation and Accommodations\nThe conference will be held at the Marriott at the Renaissance Center\, located in downtown Detroit. Please use this link to book your hotel room. \nOnly participants who use the link above will be able to take advantage of our special room rate. Please book your hotel now! We look forward to seeing you there. \nCOVID Protocols and Consent Form\nWe will be requiring all attendees to test daily using antigen rapid tests. All attendees will be required to show proof of their negative test to conference planners before participating in EARNCon activities.  \nAdditionally\, we require all attendees to review and sign EARNCon 2023’s COVID consent form. To see the full COVID protocols and to review and sign the consent form\, please click here. \nAgenda Summary\nWednesday\, October 4\n1:00 – 7:00 PM Registration \n1:00 – 4:30 PM EARN Director’s Meeting \n1:00 – 4:30 PM Data Bootcamp \n\nData Analysis in R\nIntroducing the new EARN Code Library\nAccessing public data with R\n\n5:00 – 7:00 PM Opening Plenary and Dinner \n\nDriver’s Licenses for All in Michigan Campaign\n\n7:00 – 9:00 PM Welcome Reception \nThursday\, October 5\n7:45 – 8:45 AM Breakfast \n8:45 – 10:00 AM PREE Plenary \n\nExamining Assaults on Public Education: The Right-Wing Agenda and its Implications for Equity in Schools\n\n10:10 – 11:10 AM Workshop Sessions 1.1 \n\nEVs and the Future of Auto Manufacturing\nLocal\, State\, and Federal Reparations Initiatives\nThe Fight for $15 (and beyond) Continues\n“Can You Put This On Social?”: Squaring Complex Policies with the Needs of Digital Media\n\n11:20 – 12:20 PM Workshop Sessions 1.2 \n\nWorker and Family Health as a Political Economic Choice\nWorker Power and Tax Justice: Building Multi-issue Coalitions to Win Good Jobs\, Equity\, and Vital Public Investments \nBuilding and Innovating the Early Care and Education Infrastructure: Employers\, Unions\, and Home-based Child Care (HBCC)\nThe Power of Organizing: How to Build a Plan to Win\n\n12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch \n1:30 – 2:45 PM Children and Families Plenary \n\nThe Industrial Policy Still Needed: Care Infrastructure that Allows Children\, Parents\, and Care Workers to Thrive\n\n2:50 – 3:50 PM Workshop Sessions 1.3 \n\nValidating Data Analysis Through Benchmarking: Hands-on R Programming for Analyzing Public Data Sources\nImpact of Structural Racism on Family and Child Well-Being\nBuilding Immigrant Worker Power\nCrafting a Message to Move the Movement\n\n4:00 – 5:30 PM Flex Meetings \n\nPREE Office Hours\nData Office Hours\nCommunications Office Hours\n\n5:30 – 6:45 PM Cohort Socials \n7:00 – 8:30 PM Group Activity (TBD) \nFriday\, October 6\n7:45 – 8:45 AM Breakfast \n8:45 – 10:00 AM Industrial Policy Plenary \n\nState and Local Strategies for Leveraging Federal Industrial Policy Investments to Advance Worker Power\, Equity\, and Climate Goals\n\n10:10 – 11:10 AM Workshop Sessions 2.1 \n\nCreating Compelling Visual Narratives: Making Publication-Quality Charts in R and Tableau Public\nPolitical Economy of Environmental Racism\nHow Local Governments can Protect Workers Even When States Don’t Want Them To: Possibilities for Local Action in States with Preemption\nCutting Corporate Giveaways\, Strengthening Public Services\n\n11:20 – 12:35 PM Closing Plenary \n\nMeeting the Moment\n\n12:35 – 2:00 PM Lunch and Close \nAgenda is subject to change \nQuestions? Contact:\nEmail us at earnconference@epi.org.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2023/
LOCATION:Marriott at the Renaissance Center\, Renaissance Center\, 400 Renaissance Drive\, Detroit\, MI\, 28243\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T123000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220915T143349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220928T145024Z
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SUMMARY:Immigrant worker rights\, organizing\, and excluded workers
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nDavid Kallick (Moderator)\, Immigration Research Initiative\nAnthony Capote\, Immigration Research Initiative\nJessie Hahn\, National Immigration Law Center\nPaulina Lopez Gonzalez\, National Domestic Workers Alliance Labs\nKevin Slayton\, Maryland Center on Economic Policy\n\n  \nSession Description \nThe social and political climate of the past few years has led to bold advocacy around immigrant rights and worker organizing. Delivery workers and farm laborers have advanced their organizing strategies and achieved policy wins. Work-related programs such as unemployment compensation and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) have been extended to formerly excluded workers. The Biden administration has made changes to immigration enforcement to reduce immigrant workers’ barriers to organizing and is now being pressured to do more. Join this session to discuss the state-level strategies that have worked and the immigrant-led workplace organizing that is happening in states around the country. \n 
URL:https://earn.us/event/immigrant-worker-rights-organizing-and-excluded-workers/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T123000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220912T125031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T125031Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: EARN in the South Barriers to Employment Action Fair
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nCarrie Cole\, The Bail Project Louisville\nErin George\, Clean Slate Initiative\nTachana Marc\, Florida Policy Institute\nDominique Martin\, New Virginia Majority\n\n  \nSession Description \nThis session will bring together our Earn in the South partners to share their efforts and exchange strategies about how to lower barriers to employment and income raised by involvement in the criminal justice system. Participants will visit multiple stations in a science fair style where a host will facilitate dialogue regarding four different topics: criminal fines and fees; occupational licensing; expungement and sealing; and cash bail. Participants will have an opportunity to rotate to new stations to join the conversation about different topics. After four rotations\, participants may go back to any station they like to continue their conversations and exchange contact information with other participants.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-eis-barriers-to-employment/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T123000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220826T135040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T113047Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: Creating a Care Economy: Advancing Racial and Gender Justice by Building a Care Infrastructure in the States
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nKyra Miller (Moderator)\, National Women’s Law Center\nVictor Sanchez\, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy\nTiffany Ferrette\, Center for Law and Social Policy\nErika Washington\, Make It Work Nevada\n\n  \nSession Description \n\n\nThis session will focus on what states can do to build a better care system\, inclusive of child care\, paid leave\, and long-term care provisions including nursing facilities home and community-based services. Panelists will discuss equitable implementation of remaining relief dollars\, state best practices on CCDBG and other care investments\, campaign to improve care provisioning and working conditions in nursing facilities in Los Angeles County\, narrative change work to position child care and home and community-based services as public goods\, and long-term base-building work with a growing care movement centering racial and gender justice.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-care-economy/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T110000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220912T171028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T171028Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: Narrative strategy: Advancing workers’ rights through communications campaigns
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nAnu Kumar (Moderator)\, Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN)\nCaitlin Johnson\, Policy Matters Ohio\nElaine Mejia\, Topos Partnership\nMaki Somosot\, Ohio Organizing Collaborative\n\n  \nSession Description \nThis session will explore the use of the Race Class Narrative with organizers from Ohio\, describe key lessons from narrative research\, and will discuss how to develop an effective narrative strategy in your locality to push for pro-worker policies.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-narrative-strategy/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T110000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220912T115019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T115019Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: Good Jobs\, Green Jobs\, and Climate Justice
DESCRIPTION:Confirmed Speakers \n\nDavere Godfrey\, Jobs to Move America\nFrank Manzo\, Illinois Economic Policy Institute\nAmanda Woodrum\, Policy Matters Ohio\n\n  \nSession Description \nBefore Congress passed the largest investment in clean energy jobs in history with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August of 2022\, action at the local\, state\, and regional level was already paving the way toward climate and economic justice. This session will focus on three examples of victories that combine good paying jobs\, racial equity\, and tackling climate change. The first victory takes place in Los Angeles and Alabama\, where Jobs to Move America (JMA) was able to secure a community benefits agreement (CBA) with the largest bus manufacturer in the country for a $500 million contract with LA Metro. The second victory is the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act\, which Illinois enacted in September 2021\, and has been heralded as one of the nation’s most sweeping clean energy bills ever passed. Finally\, the session will explore the work of Reimagine Appalachia\, a regional coalition of labor\, community groups\, and several EARN groups that played a pivotal role in passage of federal legislation to build a 21st century economy in Appalachia that builds worker solidarity.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-good-green-jobs-climate-justice/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T110000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220908T134211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T150727Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: Unemployment Insurance Reform is a Racial Equity Imperative
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nKyra Miller (Moderator)\, National Women’s Law Center (NWLC)\nVictor Sanchez\, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)\nTiffany Ferrette\, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)\nErika Washington\, Make It Work Nevada\n\n  \nSession Description \nIn 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.
URL:https://earn.us/event/ui-reform-racial-equity-imperative/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T081500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T093000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220912T143453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T142357Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: Rebuilding the Public Sector: Understanding the state and local jobs shortfall and what it means for communities\, public budgets\, and equity
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nDave Cooper\, Economic Policy Institute\nAmanda Posson\, Every Texan\nDustin Pugel\, Kentucky Center for Economic Policy\nJacob Vigil\, New Mexico Voices \n\n  \nSession Description \nThanks to timely and ample federal relief programs\, the United States’ recovery from the pandemic-induced recession has been swift: the economy regained more than twice the number of jobs lost in the Great Recession in less than half the time. However\, public sector employment – particularly state and local government – remains severely depressed from pre-pandemic levels\, with little improvement over the past year. Even with unprecedented federal fiscal aid to state and local governments\, many states and localities are facing staffing shortages in key public systems\, including education and healthcare\, that have been growing for years. In this session\, EPI experts will lead a discussion to figure out what is happening beneath the headline numbers; how it’s affecting public services; what lawmakers and advocates can do about it; how EARN groups are responding\, and what it all means with the threat of recession and austerity looming.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-rebuilding-public-sector/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T081500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T093000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220912T125810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T125810Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: A fairer economy: Uniting unions\, advocates\, policy groups\, and local communities to fight for progressive policies
DESCRIPTION:Confirmed Speakers (More to come!) \n\nLindsey Baker (Moderator)\, Missouri Budget Project\nMel Borja\, The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis\nSana Shah\, Connecticut Voices for Children\n\n  \nSession Description \nEARN groups recognize that economic inequality has been rapidly increasing for the past several decades and our states’ regressive tax systems are a key contributor to economic injustice. However\, states’ economic policy decisions are often controlled by the wealthy\, who utilize political and economic influence to increase their wealth. In order to advance economic justice\, it is necessary to form strategic partnerships among the majority of us who have not shared the economy’s gains. We all wield different types of power\, and by building effective partnerships\, EARN groups will be able to fundamentally reform the revenue structure and provide support to working families and boost public investment that would inject hundreds of millions of dollars into our chronically underfunded public systems of education\, health care\, and social services. These policy changes would benefit all working people who rely on a robust public sector as a lifeline to vital services and a source of living wage employment. In particular\, women and workers of color would stand to gain the most from increased public investment and tax reform\, as these residents have borne the brunt of austerity policies and our upside-down tax structure over the last few decades.  \nIn this session\, panelists will highlight how to build a successful advocacy plan by forming partnerships that lead to an effective “inside” and “outside” strategy to challenge longstanding austerity approaches\, expand working families’ power over the state budget by enacting progressive tax reform\, and to win dramatic investments in working-class communities.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-a-fairer-economy/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T081500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T093000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220906T144044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T151000Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: Prioritizing equity\, job quality\, and climate goals in state and local uses of federal infrastructure funds
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nChandra Childers (Moderator)\, Economic Policy Institute\nLeland Bass\, Columbus Urban League/Columbus Building Futures\nIan Elder\, Jobs to Move America\nJoe Snyder\, Communications Workers of America\nJB Tengco\, BlueGreen Alliance\n\n  \nSession Description \nFederal funds now flowing to state and local governments for infrastructure projects provide historic opportunities to create good union jobs\, strengthen labor standards\, and increase equity in apprenticeship training and job access for women and workers of color. But these outcomes aren’t automatic\, and important policy choices lie ahead. \nThis session will explore state and local opportunities to help ensure that federally funded projects benefit workers and their communities\, deliver on equity\, job quality\, and climate goals\, and build worker power. Successfully leveraging infrastructure funding available in coming years will require high levels of engagement and collaboration among on-the-ground partners as well as familiarity with federal agency funding mechanisms\, processes for drawing down funds\, and how federal funds flow through states\, local governments\, or other entities.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-prioritizing-equity-job-quality/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220915T141242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T181720Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: Stratification Economics: Policy Framework for a Post-COVID America
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nKyle Moore (Moderator)\, Economic Policy Institute\nDania Francis\, University of Massachusetts Boston\nRachel Marie Brooks Atkins\, St. John’s University’s Tobin College of Business\nBrian Smedley\, Urban Institute\n\n  \nSession Description \nIn a wealthy country like the United States\, we collectively decide how healthy we want our population to be by deciding how we distribute our resources (up to and including the provision of health care)\, and how we distribute the costs of producing the goods and services that keep our economy running. Historically\, these decisions have been made in ways that benefit wealthier White Americans\, while the health consequences of production fall on poorer\, Black\, and brown communities. The pandemic underlined the facts that 1) our existing economic arrangements lead to worse inequality when crises occur\, both economically and in public health\, and 2) we can effectively reduce that inequality when we want to through the smart use of public policy. Both insights are present in the stratification economics and political economy of public health frameworks. Our discussion will highlight how these two approaches view the intersection of economic and public health outcomes\, and how both can be brought together to design better policy in a post-COVID America.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-stratification-economics/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220912T115625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T115625Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: Striking Back: Reorganizing in Right-to-Work States
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nJackson Voss (Moderator)\, Louisiana Budget Project\nLiJia Gong\, Local Progress\nAmanda Posson\, AFT Texas\nPatty Quinzi\, Every Texan\n\n  \nSession Description \nThis session aims to inform EARNCON attendees about strategies that policymakers and advocates are using to advance pro-worker policymaking and supporting the labor movement at the state and local level\, with an emphasis on states with anti-labor policies in place\, such as “Right-to-Work” laws.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-reorganizing-right-to-work-states/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220826T124153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T153108Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: Joining the fight for economic justice\, racial justice\, and abortion access
DESCRIPTION:Speakers\n\nStaci Fox\, Georgia Budget and Policy Institute\nAndrea Johnson\, National Women’s Law Center\nSean O’Leary\, West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy\nBeulah Osueke\, New Voices for Reproductive Justice (OH and PA)\nKyra Roby\, One Voice Mississippi\n\n\nSession Description\n\nThe Supreme Court’s decision to abolish the constitutional right to abortion will have an enormous impact on economic security\, job security\, workforce participation\, and educational attainment—especially for Black\, Indigenous\, and other People of Color. It has never been more important for the economic justice and reproductive rights and justice movements to make connections between our work and show up in solidarity. But what does that look like for EARN groups and partners navigating different political landscapes? This session will explore the ways in which income security\, worker justice\, child care\, and other economic justice issues EARN groups work on are deeply intertwined with the fight for abortion access\, particularly for Black\, Indigenous\, and other communities of color\, and how economic justice advocates\, working in partnership with the reproductive rights and justice groups\, have been and can be crucial to fighting for abortion access at the state and local level. Panelists will share examples of research\, policies\, racial justice-focused and values-based messaging they’ve leveraged\, and audience members will discuss questions and barriers they are encountering as they seek to engage in this crucial fight.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-abortion-access/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220915T130323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T134935Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Plenary: In Pursuit of Racial and Economic Justice: The Complex History of Race and Unions
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nValerie Wilson (Moderator)\, Economic Policy Institute\nTarn Goelling\, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers\nWilliam Jones\, University of Minnesota\nTanya Wallace-Gobern\, National Black Worker Center\n\n  \nSession Description \nThe plenary will educate conference attendees about the history of Black\, Latinx and AAPI workers’ involvement in labor unions and labor organizing and the important role labor unions can play in proactively advancing racial and gender equity in the labor market. The panel will also address constructive ways for the labor movement to reconcile those goals with its own complex history of racism and sexism.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-plenary-in-pursuit-of-racial-and-economic-justice-the-complex-history-of-race-and-unions/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T111500
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220912T133723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T143211Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: The role of local government in advancing and protecting workers' rights
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nDanielle Alvarado\, Fair Work Center\nTeri Castillo\, San Antonio City Council District 5\nTerri Gerstein\, Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and Economic Policy Institute\nLiJia Gong\, Local Progress\nMazahir Salih\, Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa\n\n  \nSession Description \nThis session will provide an overview of all of the different ways (even when constrained by abusive state preemption) that localities have used their various powers—including policymaking\, enforcement\, licensing\, contracting\, worker education\, and public engagement—to fight for working people. This session will also provide the opportunity for small group discussions among participants to consider how they might play
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-local-gov-advancing-protecting-workers-rights/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T111500
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220912T114025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T151257Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Session: Worker rights in the gig economy: State policy battles and organizing breakthroughs
DESCRIPTION:Confirmed Speakers (More to Come!) \n\nMaya Pinto\, National Employment Law Project (NELP)\nJennifer Sherer\, Economic Policy Institute (EPI)\nChrissy Lynch\, Massachusetts AFL-CIO\nCherri Murphy\, Gig Workers Rising\nJennifer Sherer\, Economic Policy Institute (EPI)\nLori Simmons\, Chicago Rideshare Advocates\n\n  \nSession Description \nThis session will provide an overview of how app-based companies’ well-funded attempts to erode state and local employment and labor laws pose threats to basic worker rights across the country. It will lift up examples of how workers and allies are organizing to build new organizations with the power to protect or expand labor and employment rights. It will also acknowledge the challenge of state and local political fights characterized by huge imbalances of power and corporate efforts to divide allies against one another and/or to use cynical appeals to shared values such as diversity\, flexibility\, or benefits access (while eroding rights and creating second-class status for precarious low-wage workers who are disproportionately Black\, Brown\, and/or immigrants). Finally\, it will present case studies of local policy options developed and implemented by and with organizing workers.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-gig-worker-rights/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T110000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220915T151429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T151429Z
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SUMMARY:Tracking the demands of the civil rights movement from the 1960s till today
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nAdewale Maye\, Economic Policy Institute\nJessica Fulton\, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies\nAlex Morash\, One Fair Wage\nWilliam Spriggs\, AFL-CIO\n\n  \nSession Descriptions \nThis session will inform conference attendees of the policies\, strategies\, and actions advocated for during the March on Washington and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and then to use these social policy requests as a metric to determine which policies were implemented\, which have yet to be realized\, and what this means for racial economic justice. \n  \n 
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-tracking-demands-civil-rights-movement/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T093000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220915T131047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T132541Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Plenary: Voices from the frontlines of new union organizing: Worker power\, state policy\, and racial\, gender\, and economic justice
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nJennifer Sherer (Moderator)\, Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN)\nTia Banks\, SEIU Local 512 – Virginia\nJacob Oldefest\, Denver Health Workers United (CWA)\nLibby Vasey\, Ohio Federation of Teachers (AFT)\n\n  \nSession Description \nThis plenary will feature workers sharing their motivations and strategies for organizing new unions in public services\, health care\, and other frontline occupations\, while illustrating opportunities to expand state and local policies that advance worker power. Workers across the country are organizing new unions to improve their work lives and the public services they provide\, often against long odds\, and sometimes without full legal rights to unionize and collectively bargain. Such rights are essential for all workers\, yet millions of workers lack full union rights due to long-standing occupational exclusions in federal labor laws. Millions more face steep barriers to unionization in temp work\, gig work\, franchised industries\, or other “fissured” workplaces. Rooted in racism and sexism\, these exclusions and barriers contribute to economic\, racial\, and gender inequalities across the labor market and economy—while leaving it up to each state to set policies on union rights for millions of workers. This session will consider lessons from workers’ experiences in recent organizing campaigns from states with a range of strong or weak union laws\, the difference unions make in workers’ lives and to the public good\, and how state policies shape workers’ ability to build power.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-frontlines-new-union-organizing/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220915T125101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T152948Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon Plenary: Welcome and introductions\, Keynote address: Liz Shuler\, and Panel discussion: Rebuilding worker power and civic engagement in Ohio
DESCRIPTION:Welcome and introductions \n\nDave Cooper\, Economic Policy Institute\nBlaine Griffin\, Cleveland City Council\nAmanda Posson\, Every Texan\n\n  \nKeynote speaker \n\nLiz Shuler\, AFL-CIO\n\n  \nSpeakers \n\nDaniel Ortiz\, Policy Matters Ohio (Moderator)\nIsbel Alvarado\, Central Ohio Worker Center\nColleen Damerell\, Northeast Ohio Worker Center\nBree Easterling\, Policy Matters Ohio\nHannah Halbert\, Policy Matters Ohio\nJ Sanchez\, Columbus Education Association\nGabe Santohir\, Starbucks Workers United\n\n  \nSession Description \nOur opening plenary will welcome you to Cleveland and ground this conference in the work being done in Ohio to rebuild worker power and civic engagement. Ohio has a rich history of worker-led movements for economic justice. The newest incarnations of those movements are inspiring change every day\, and we will hear speakers from some of those efforts this evening.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-opening-plenary/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220616T141715Z
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SUMMARY:EARNCon 2022
DESCRIPTION:Conference Details\nClick for more conference details\nDuring EARNCon\, attendees discussed the most pressing issues confronting workers leading into 2023\, ranging from wages and labor standards to climate. The conference provided a launch point for research and policy development that centers workers\, communities of color\, and women and served to advance legislation that improves labor standards and strengthens worker power. This year\, we highlighted the wave of unionization and labor organizing that spread throughout the country and discussed what it meant for state and local policymaking. EARNCon 2022 included: \nPre-conference sessions \n\nEARN 101 (Virtual) — Monday\, September 26 from 1:00 – 2:00 PM —This workshop will be an excellent opportunity to meet EARN staff and learn about the network and our resources.\nData Bootcamp — Wednesday\, September 28 from 1:30 – 4:30 PM — In this session\, participants will use Current Population Survey (CPS) data to perform analyses in statistical software packages Stata and R.\nEARN Directors’ Strategy Meeting — Wednesday\, September 28 from 1:00 – 4:30 PM\n\nPlenaries \n\nEARNCon 2022 Cleveland: Struggles for Worker Power\, Past and Present — Wednesday\, September 28 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm — During this plenary\, speakers welcomed EARN groups to the conference and set the stage for what was to come in the following year. Panelists discussed the history of the labor movement in Cleveland and drew parallels between unionization campaigns in Ohio and the rest of the country.\nIn Pursuit of Racial and Economic Justice: The Complex History of Race and Unions — Thursday\, September 29 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm — This plenary\, led by EPI’s Program on Race\, Ethnicity\, and the Economy (PREE)\, educated participants about the history of Black\, Latinx\, and AAPI workers’ involvement in labor unions and labor organizing.\nVoices from the frontlines of new union organizing: Worker power\, state policy\, and racial\, gender\, and economic justice — Thursday\, September 29 from 8:00 – 9:30 am — This plenary highlighted recent and ongoing examples of union organizing in public sector workplaces in states with a range of strong or weak public sector bargaining laws in place\, while illustrating opportunities to expand state and local policies that advance worker power.\n\nWorkshops on \n\nReproductive rights\, economic justice\, and racial justice – Thursday\, September 29 from 1:45 – 3:00 PM —Experts and advocates discussed how income security and worker justice are deeply connected in the fight for abortion access\, and explored how economic justice advocates have fought against attacks on reproductive rights in the states.\nThe care economy – Friday\, September 30 from 11:15 – 12:30 PM — A session on what states can do to build care infrastructure\, including a discussion of the equitable implementation of remaining relief dollars\, narrative change to position childcare and elder care as public goods\, and long-term base-building with a growing care movement centering racial and gender justice.\nUnemployment insurance (UI) reform – Friday\, September 30 from 9:45 – 11:00 AM —A discussion of what lessons can we draw from pandemic UI programs\, why UI reform is vital for racial and gender equity\, and what EARN groups and allies can do to promote reform that centers racial equity at the state level\, while also mitigating harms and threats to unemployment insurance.\nGig workers\, misclassification\, and platform workers’ rights – Thursday\, September 29 from 10:00 – 11:15 AM — What are the strategies (e.g.\, targeted enforcement of existing laws and policy campaigns to raise labor standards) that would make employee status more meaningful? How have gig workers have organized and what needs to happen to make platform work a decent job?\nGood jobs\, green jobs\, climate justice\, and environmental justice – Friday\, September 30 from 9:45 – 11:00 AM — How can we leverage the need to transition away from fossil fuels to build a more equitable economy? What are states doing to combat climate change and clean up environmental damage\, while creating good-paying\, union jobs?\nOrganizing in right-to-work states and at-will states – Thursday\, September 29 from 1:45 – 3:00 PM — Local\, state\, and federal governments are not adequately addressing the needs of working people and there is a clear need for long-term power building. This session introduced strategies for doing long-term work in hostile political environments.\nBarriers to employment\, the criminal legal system\, and bail reform – Friday\, September 30 from 11:15 AM  – 12:30 PM —EARN groups talked about their collective work on reforms to the criminal legal system. They shared their work focused on a range of specific issues including criminal fines and fees\, occupational licensing\, American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds\, expungement\, and cash bail.\nNarrative strategy – Friday\, September 30 from 9:45 – 11:00 AM — This session explored the use of the Race Class Narrative in different state-level campaigns\, describe key lessons from ongoing messaging research\, and teach participants how to develop an effective narrative strategy in their locality to push for pro-worker policies.\nEffective partnerships between research and direct organizers — Friday\, September 30 8:15 – 9:30 AM — This session included examples from across the EARN network highlighting ways groups have successfully formed partnerships with grassroots organizers and used their research to improve ongoing policy campaigns.\nPolicymaking at the municipal level and preemption — Thursday\, September 29 from 10:00 – 11:15 AM — This session addressed the policy levers available to local governments to combat preemption and advance worker rights.\nTracking the demands of the civil rights movement from the 1960s until today — Thursday\, September 29 from 10:00 – 11:15 AM — This session identified the policies and platforms championed during the civil rights movement and determines which policies were implemented\, which have yet to be realized\, and what this meant for racial justice.\nStratification Economics: Policy Framework for a Post-COVID America — Thursday\, September 29 from 1:45 – 3:00 PM — This session discussed the implications of the intersection of race and health\, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic\, on workers. It introduced the work of the stratification economics research community\, and highlights how its policy approach grounded in dignity for all workers can break down identity-based hierarchy throughout our economy.\nRebuilding the Public Sector — Friday\, September 30  from 8:15 – 9:30 AM — In this session\, EPI experts led a discussion among researchers\, public sector union representatives\, and EARN groups talking to lawmakers and community leaders\, to figure out what was happening beneath the headline numbers; how it was affecting public services; what lawmakers and advocates could do about it; and what it all meant with the threat of recession and austerity looming.\nState uses of federal funds — Friday\, September 30 from 8:15 – 9:30 AM — This session highlighted state and local opportunities to ensure that major federally-funded infrastructure projects benefited workers and their communities\, delivered on equity\, job quality\, and climate goals\, and built worker power.\nImmigrant worker rights\, organizing\, and excluded workers — Friday\, September 30 from 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM — This session highlighted the ongoing movement for worker rights for immigrants and excluded workers.\n\n  \nRegistration\nThis year\, registration for the full three-day conference is $450 per person. Your conference ticket includes meals on all three days of the conference except dinner on Thursday night. If you do not wish to attend the full conference\, you may register for individual days at $175 per person per day. \nPlease click here to register for EARNCon through Eventbrite. \n  \nLocation and Accommodations\nThe conference will be held at the Westin Cleveland Downtown Hotel\, located in the heart of downtown Cleveland. EARN has negotiated a discounted room rate of $199 per night for conference attendees who book their hotel rooms by Thursday\, September 1\, 2022. Unfortunately\, we cannot guarantee that the discounted room rate will be available after that date. Please book your rooms early! \nHotel reservations \nPlease note your hotel room is not automatically booked when you register for EARNCon. You must book your hotel room(s) by 5:00 pm ET on September 1 to receive the discounted room rate in the EARN block. \nAfter registering for the conference\, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to book your hotel room(s) online. You may also use the button below to reserve a room. \nYou will want to reserve your hotel room right away as reservations at the conference hotel can fill up quickly and we cannot guarantee a hotel room for every conference registrant. \nIf for any reason you have trouble booking your room\, please call the Westin Cleveland Downtown directly at (216) 771-7700 between the hours of 9:00 am and 4:00 pm CST and mention that you are booking as part of the EARN Conference. \nClick here to register for your hotel room. \n  \nCOVID Safety and Protocols\nTo mitigate the risks posed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic\, we will be requiring strict adherence to the COVID safety protocols described in this email. As you prepare to attend EARNCON\, we ask that you please review the full contents of this email in advance and plan accordingly to bring the required documentation and submit the required testing upon arrival at the conference each day. If you have any questions regarding these measures or any other aspect of conference safety\, please do not hesitate to reach out to the EARN staff at earnconference@epi.org. \n\nVaccinations: All attendees at EARNCon must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 via vaccines approved by the FDA or WHO. We strongly urge attendees to also receive all boosters for which they are eligible. Attendees must bring proof of vaccination to be admitted to EARNCon. Any attendees who are unable to present a vaccine card\, a photo of their vaccine card\, or similar digital record of their vaccination status will be denied entry to the conference.\nMasking: All attendees will be required to wear masks over their mouths and noses in all indoor spaces at EARNCON\, except when actively eating or drinking\, or when speaking as a presenter in one of the conference sessions. Attendees should bring masks that they can wear comfortably for the duration of the conference. The CDC recommends KN95 or N95 masks or respirators to prevent the spread of COVID. EARN will provide masks at the registration desk for attendees who misplace or lose theirs.\nTesting: All attendees will be required to show proof of a negative rapid antigen test each day of the conference. EARN will provide rapid tests for all attendees outside the registration area of the conference space. Attendees should allow time in their plans to retrieve a test kit and take the test before entering the conference space each day. (Results from an FDA-approved\, at-home test kit provided by the attendee and taken that same day before arriving at the conference site are also permissible.) After showing or texting a photo of the test kit results to conference staff\, attendees will be cleared to attend the day’s events.\nSocial distancing: Whenever possible\, EARN staff will try to make adequate space in all conference rooms to allow for social distancing. During mealtimes\, we will provide to-go boxes on the buffet line so that attendees who are uncomfortable eating in the conference ballroom may eat their meals at their convenience outdoors or in their rooms.\nCOVID exposure: In the event you test positive for COVID\, please alert an event organizer immediately. You will be directed to quarantine in your room\, and EARN staff will help you schedule a PCR test at Care Alliance Health Center\, which offers testing daily from 9:30 – 4:00 pm. We will notify attendees in the event of an exposure\, maintaining the anonymity of anyone testing positive. However\, we would encourage anyone testing positive to notify those attendees with whom they may have been in close contact. IPhone users can help us conduct contact tracing by activating contact tracing in their settings (click here for instructions).\nExperiencing symptoms: If at any point in the conference\, you feel unwell or begin experiencing symptoms consistent with COVID-19\, we ask that you please exit the conference space and do not return to conference activities until you are feeling better and can demonstrate a negative rapid COVID test. EARN staff will provide additional COVID test kits to anyone who experiences symptoms of COVID-19 and can help you schedule a PCR test or seek medical treatment if you require it.\n\nPlease note that in the event of a COVID exposure\, EPI/EARN will not be able to refund anyone’s conference registration fees\, hotel costs\, or travel expenses. EPI/EARN will also not be responsible for any costs associated with PCR testing\, medical treatment\, or quarantine of conference attendees.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
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SUMMARY:Pre-conference Session: Data Bootcamp
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nSebastian Hickey\, Economic Policy Institute (EPI)\nZane Mokhiber\, Economic Policy Institute (EPI)\nBen Zipperer\, Economic Policy Institute (EPI)\n\n  \nSession Description \nIn this session\, participants will use Current Population Survey (CPS) data to perform analyses in statistical software packages Stata and R. \n\nData analysis in R\n1:30 – 2:40 pm ET\nWe will use R to inflation adjust minimum wage data and supplement this analysis using the EPI Current Population Survey extracts. In general we will show how to produce basic tables and graphics using data downloaded from the BLS and other public sources. Beginners are welcome\, but it will help if everyone has basic familiarity with the programming concepts introduced in the R workshops at last year’s data bootcamp.\nKey concepts: Data analysis in R\, inflation adjustment\, EPI CPS microdata extracts\nIntroducing the new EARN code library\n2:50 – 3:10 pm ET\nEARN is excited to announce a new resource for network members: The EARN code library. The code library will make it easier for EARN researchers to share their own work and learn from analysis done by EPI and other EARN groups. In this session we will go over the components of the code library\, the process for adding new projects to the repository\, and the plan for launching the code library website.\nData analysis in Stata\n3:20 – 4:30 pm ET\nIn this 70-minute module\, we will run a basic analysis of BLS published statistics and Current Population Survey (CPS) microdata. This module will assume basic proficiency in Stata and will build on concepts learned in last year’s data bootcamp modules. This module will cover using published state level statistics from BLS in Stata in a “tidy” manner\, supplementing these published statistics with CPS microdata to allow for more fine grain analysis\, dealing with small sample sizes and data volatility over time using the CPS microdata\, and finally\, putting it all together to produce a presentable table and graphics.\nKey concepts: Tidy data analysis in Stata\, dealing with small sample sizes\, data smoothing (dealing with volatility and clumping)\, EPI CPS microdata extracts 
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-data-bootcamp/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20220915T115620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T125215Z
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SUMMARY:Pre-conference Session: EARN Executive Directors' Strategy Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Executive Directors’ Strategy Meeting is an opportunity for leaders from the network to strengthen relationships; learn about their peers’ work; learn about EPI’s projects and plans for EARN; and strategize together on how we can drive progressive economic and racial justice policymaking at the state and local level.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2022-executive-directors-meeting/
LOCATION:The Westin Cleveland Downtown\, 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44114\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20210803T142108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210806T223205Z
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SUMMARY:Data Bootcamp: Next Steps in R
DESCRIPTION:This session is for people who may have some experience using data\, but have never used R or microdata before.\n\n\nClick Here to Register for EARNCon!\nThis session uses R to analyze American Community Survey microdata.  The lesson will build on concepts learned in First steps in R\, and attendees who don’t join that session should already have familiarity with concepts learned there. \nLearning outcomes include: \n1. Writing R scripts using best practices and proper documentation; \n2. How to properly set up a project: directory structure and working directories; \n3. Reproducible data analysis.
URL:https://earn.us/event/data-bootcamp-next-steps-in-r/
LOCATION:DC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
CREATED:20210803T142106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210806T223229Z
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SUMMARY:Data Bootcamp: Next Steps in Stata
DESCRIPTION:This session is for people who may have some experience using data\, but have never used Stata or microdata before.\n\n\nClick Here to Register for EARNCon!\nAttendees will learn how to effectively use Stata to answer a research question using microdata. \nThe lesson will build on concepts learned in First steps in Stata\, and attendees who don’t join that session should already have familiarity with concepts learned there. \nLearning outcomes include: \n1. Writing do-files in Stata using best practices and proper documentation \n2. How to properly set up a project: directory structure and working directories \n3. Intermediate Stata operations: joining datasets\, transforming data\, macros\, loops\, exporting data\, pooling data
URL:https://earn.us/event/data-bootcamp-next-steps-in-stata/
LOCATION:DC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T232754Z
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SUMMARY:Data Bootcamp: Intro to R
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register for EARNCon!\nAttendees will learn the basics of using R for microdata analysis. \nThis session is for people who may have some experience using data\, but have never used R or microdata before.
URL:https://earn.us/event/data-bootcamp-intro-to-r/
LOCATION:DC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210804T171344Z
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SUMMARY:Data Bootcamp: Intro to STATA
DESCRIPTION:This session is for people who may have some experience using data\, but have never used Stata or microdata before.\n\n\nClick Here to Register for EARNCon!\nThis session is for people who may have some experience using data\, but have never used Stata or microdata before. \nAttendees will learn the basics of using Stata for microdata analysis. \nThis session is for people who may have some experience using data\, but have never used Stata or microdata before. \nLearning outcomes include: \n1. Understanding what Stata is and how it differs from excel; \n2. Key data concepts: variables\, observations\, tabular data\, missing values\, survey weights; \n3. Basic Stata commands; \n4. What microdata is\, focusing on the Current Population Survey (CPS) and American Community Survey(ACS); \n5. Basic analysis with microdata. \nWho should join? Anyone who is interested in using Stata is welcome. Ideal candidates are those who have zero or limited experience using Stata or those who want a refresher course.
URL:https://earn.us/event/data-bootcamp-stata/
LOCATION:DC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T211432Z
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SUMMARY:How We Organize\, How We Win: State-Level Action to Gain Labor Rights and Build Worker Power 
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register for EARNCon!\n\n\n  \nSpeakers \n\n\nJennifer Sherer (Moderator)\, Senior State Policy Coordinator for EARN Worker Power Project\, Economic Policy Institute\nValerie Collins\, Attorney\, Towards Justice\nApril Sims\, Secretary Treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council\, AFL-CIO\nEd Muir\, Deputy Director Research & Strategic Initiatives\, American Federation of Teachers\n\n\n\n\nSession Description \n\nWorking people have opportunities at the state and local level to promote their interests and make progress toward racial\, gender\, and economic justice through organizing and collective bargaining. This session will showcase EARN’s new Worker Power Project to the Network and offer a comparative look at how collective bargaining campaigns across several different states and sectors have made led to improved policy and standards for workers. Participants will come away with a shared understanding of how labor policy gains can improve the wellbeing of workers of color and women and what current opportunities for advancing labor policy exist at the state level in specific sectors.
URL:https://earn.us/event/worker-power-2/
LOCATION:DC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
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SUMMARY:Economic Recovery & Worker Justice for All: Growing the Economy Through Antiracist Policy 
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register for EARNCon!\n  \nSpeakers \n\nKyle Moore (Moderator)\, Economist\, Economic Policy Institute\nAlex Camardelle\, Director of Workforce Policy\, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies\nAngela Hanks\, Counselor to the Secretary\, Department of Labor\nRigo Valdez\, Presidents’ Organizing Initiative Coordinator at the Martin Luther King\, Jr. County Labor Council\n\n  \nSession Description \nEvery level of government needs to prioritize antiracist policies if we are ever going to effectively confront racial wage\, income\, wealth\, and employment gaps. This session will discuss the need to center people of color in our economic research and policymaking\, the particular harm Black and Brown communities suffered in the pandemic\, and the state and local policies that can help us achieve a more equitable economy.
URL:https://earn.us/event/pree/
LOCATION:DC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T090828
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SUMMARY:State of the National Economy
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register for EARNCon!\nHow can we achieve more equitable workplaces and labor market outcomes? By forcing through better policies\, say EPI economists. In this session\, EPI economists and researchers share their take on the current state of the economy and project where they we’re headed. Economist AMA (Ask Me Anything) breakouts will enable participants to engage directly in conversation with EPI economists and researchers on a range of topics including racial and worker justice and labor standards. \n\nPanelists Include \n\nJosh Bivens\, Director of Research \nElise Gould\, Senior Economist \nCeline McNicholas\, Director of Government Affairs \nMarokey Sawo\, State Economic Analyst \nValerie Wilson\, Director of the Program on Race\, Ethnicity\, and the Economy (PREE)\nModerated by David Cooper\, Director of EARN and Senior Economic Analyst
URL:https://earn.us/event/state-of-the-national-economy/
LOCATION:DC
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