Welcome to EARNConversations: Transformative Investments in Workers, Communities, and Job Quality

Click Here to Register for EARNCon!   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 […]

State of the National Economy

Click Here to Register for EARNCon! How 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 […]

Economic Recovery & Worker Justice for All: Growing the Economy Through Antiracist Policy 

Click Here to Register for EARNCon!   Speakers Kyle Moore (Moderator), Economist, Economic Policy Institute Alex Camardelle, Director of Workforce Policy, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Angela Hanks, Counselor to the Secretary, Department of Labor Rigo Valdez, Presidents’ Organizing Initiative Coordinator at the Martin Luther King, Jr. County Labor Council   Session Description […]

How We Organize, How We Win: State-Level Action to Gain Labor Rights and Build Worker Power 

Click Here to Register for EARNCon!   Speakers Jennifer Sherer (Moderator), Senior State Policy Coordinator for EARN Worker Power Project, Economic Policy Institute Valerie Collins, Attorney, Towards Justice April Sims, Secretary Treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO Ed Muir, Deputy Director Research & Strategic Initiatives, American Federation of Teachers Session Description Working people […]

Data Bootcamp: Intro to STATA

This session is for people who may have some experience using data, but have never used Stata or microdata before. Click Here to Register for EARNCon! This session is for people who may have some experience using data, but have never used Stata or microdata before. Attendees will learn the basics of using Stata for […]

Data Bootcamp: Intro to R

Click Here to Register for EARNCon! Attendees will learn the basics of using R for microdata analysis. This session is for people who may have some experience using data, but have never used R or microdata before.

Data Bootcamp: Next Steps in Stata

This session is for people who may have some experience using data, but have never used Stata or microdata before. Click Here to Register for EARNCon! Attendees will learn how to effectively use Stata to answer a research question using microdata. The lesson will build on concepts learned in First steps in Stata, and attendees who don’t […]

Data Bootcamp: Next Steps in R

This session is for people who may have some experience using data, but have never used R or microdata before. Click Here to Register for EARNCon! This 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 […]

Pre-conference Session: EARN Executive Directors’ Strategy Meeting

The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United States

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.

Pre-conference Session: Data Bootcamp

The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United States

In this session, participants will use CPS data to perform analyses in statistical software packages Stata and R.

EARNCon Plenary: Welcome and introductions, Keynote address: Liz Shuler, and Panel discussion: Rebuilding worker power and civic engagement in Ohio

The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United States

During this plenary, speakers will welcome EARN groups to the conference and set the stage for what is to come. Panelists will discuss the history of the labor movement in Cleveland and draw parallels between unionization campaigns in Ohio and the rest of the country.

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