EARNCon Session: Stratification Economics: Policy Framework for a Post-COVID America
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesOur discussion will highlight ways to view the intersection of economic and public health outcomes, and how these perspectives can be brought together to design better policy in a post-COVID America.
EARNCon Session: Prioritizing equity, job quality, and climate goals in state and local uses of federal infrastructure funds
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThis 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.
EARNCon Session: A fairer economy: Uniting unions, advocates, policy groups, and local communities to fight for progressive policies
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesIn 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.
EARNCon Session: Rebuilding the Public Sector: Understanding the state and local jobs shortfall and what it means for communities, public budgets, and equity
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesIn this session, EPI experts will lead a discussion among researchers, public sector union representatives, and EARN groups talking to lawmakers and community leaders, to figure out what is happening beneath the headline numbers; how it’s affecting public services; what lawmakers and advocates can do about it; and what it all means with the threat of recession and austerity looming.
EARNCon Session: Unemployment Insurance Reform is a Racial Equity Imperative
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesIn 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.
EARNCon Session: Good Jobs, Green Jobs, and Climate Justice
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThis session will focus on three examples of victories that combine good paying jobs, racial equity, and tackling climate change.
EARNCon Session: Narrative strategy: Advancing workers’ rights through communications campaigns
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThis 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.
EARNCon Session: Creating a Care Economy: Advancing Racial and Gender Justice by Building a Care Infrastructure in the States
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThis 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.
EARNCon Session: EARN in the South Barriers to Employment Action Fair
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThis 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.
Immigrant worker rights, organizing, and excluded workers
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesJoin 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.
EARNCon 2023
Marriott at the Renaissance Center Renaissance Center, 400 Renaissance Drive, Detroit, MI, United StatesEARNCon 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.
EARNCon 2024
Virtual: ZoomDue to Tropical Storm Francine, EARNCON 2024 will no longer be an in-person event. Virtual offerings for some of the conference content are listed below. Details, including Zoom links, have […]
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- 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