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SUMMARY:EARNCon 2025
DESCRIPTION:It was great seeing you at EARNCon 2025!\nStay tuned for EARNCon 2026 details \n  \n\nEARNCon 2025: Conference Agenda\nLast updated 11.4.25 (Agenda is subject to change) \n \nDAY 1: Wednesday\, November 12\, 2025 \n\n\n\n8:00 AM – 12:00 PM: (Optional) Pre-Con Activities\n\n○ Additional information about pre-conference opportunities are available in Swapcard.\n\n\n1:00 – 7:00 PM: Registration\n1:00 – 4:00 PM: Bootcamps & Meetings\n\n○ Building Power Outside the Statehouse and City Halls: How Organizing Can Boost Your Advocacy Game\n○ State of Working X: Data Bootcamp\n○ EARN Executive Directors Meeting\n\n\n5:00 – 7:00 PM: Opening Plenary Session and Dinner\n\n○ Keynote: Julie Su\n○ Welcome to New Orleans\n\n\n\n7:00 – 9:00 PM: Welcome Reception\n\n\n \nDAY 2: Thursday\, November 13\, 2025 \n\n7:30 – 8:30 AM: Breakfast\n8:30 – 9:30 AM: Plenary Session\n\n○ Navigating the Trump Economy: What the Administration’s Actions Mean for Workers and Their Families\, and How States Can Respond\n\n\n9:45 – 11:00 AM: Workshop Sessions\n\n○ Countering Pro-Business Narratives and Building Public Solidarity\n○ Community and Worker Power in Infrastructure and Beyond\n○ Centering Black Children and Families in State Policy Work: Early Lessons from the ECOSYS Initiative\n○ Taking Care of Each Other: How Researchers\, Advocates\, and Grass Roots Organizations are Resisting the Deportation Regime and Fighting to Change the Narrative\n\n\n11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Lunch/Break\n12:30 – 2:00 PM: PREE Plenary Session\n\n○ We’ve Been Here Before: Project 2025 as White Supremacist Backlash\n\n\n2:15 – 3:30 PM: Workshop Sessions\n\n○ Progress & Tensions at the Intersection of Labor\, Environmental\, and Climate Justice\n○ Defending the Public Sector\n○ Building an Economy for the Many\, Not the Few: State Campaigns to Fight Corporate Concentration and Build Economic Power\n○ Building Living Wages One Block at a Time: Industry-Level Strategies for Increasing Wage Floors\n\n\n3:45 – 5:00 PM: Networking\, Roundtable\, and Open Houses\n\n\n \nDAY 3: Friday\, November 14\, 2025 \n\n7:30 – 8:30 AM: Breakfast\n8:30 – 9:45 AM: Workshop Sessions\n\n○ Building the Right Way: Creating Abundance for Workers and Communities\n○ Protecting Public Schools from Existential Threats\n○ Defending Democracy: How Researchers and Advocates are Protecting Ballot Initiatives and Fighting Back Against Preemption\n○ PREE: Black Cities\n\n\n10:00 – 11:15 AM: Workshop Sessions\n\n○ Leveraging State Tax & Budget Fights to Build Power and Advance Economic Justice\n○ PREE: The Growing Cost of Policing and the Carceral State\n○ New Technology\, Old Ideology: The Use of AI to Advance a Longstanding Corporate Agenda and How Advocates Are Fighting Back\n○ Community Benefits Agreements and Community-Labor Coalitions: How to Create Virtuous Cycles for Workers and Families Through Local Economic Development\n\n\n11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Lunch\n12:30 – 2:00 PM: Closing Plenary Session\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are thrilled to host EARNCon in partnership with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race\, Ethnicity\, and the Economy (PREE)\, at the Loews Hotel in New Orleans\, LA from November 12–14\, 2025. \nNew 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.This year’s conference will center around the theme “Community\, Solidarity\, Resistance: Building multi-racial worker power in the states” and feature content aligned with EPI’s strategic priorities. At EARNCon 2025\, we will lay the groundwork needed for an equity-enhancing\, worker-centered\, state and local research and policy agenda for 2026 and beyond. \nAdditional conference information will be available here in the coming weeks. If you have any questions or concerns about registration or the conference\, please email earnconference@epi.org. \n\nHelp build the foundation to win state and local policies that advance racial\, economic\, and gender justice – become an EARNCon sponsor today! Learn more
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2025/
LOCATION:Loews New Orleans Hotel\, 300 Poydras Street\, New Orleans\, 70130\, United States
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SUMMARY:EARNCon 2026
DESCRIPTION:Registration is Open!\nRegister \n3-day full conference tickets are now available at our general registration rate until August 31st. \nAnnually hosted by EPI’s Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) and Program on Race\, Ethnicity and the Economy (PREE)\, EARNCon brings together a rich community of researchers\, policy advocates\, labor leaders\, and grassroots organizers committed to a worker-centered research and policy agenda that advances racial\, gender\, and economic justice at the state and local level. \nThis year’s EARNCon will take place September 30-October 2\, 2026\, in Washington\, D.C. \nEARNCon 2026 will bring state and local movement leaders together in the nation’s capital at a moment when our country is marking its 250th anniversary but its core values and institutions are in deep crisis. This year’s conference will celebrate our conviction that the country will never achieve the highest ideals of its founding until we truly center people\, equity\, and collective action. \nTogether\, we will affirm our collective commitment to racial and gender equity\, economic justice\, and democracy\, while sharpening state policy and organizing strategies that deliver an economy that works for all. With discussions on topics such as strengthening unions and workplace protections\, building and sustaining robust public programs that safeguard economic security\, and how community-labor organizing that can drive local policy change\, EARNCon 2026 will be a place to learn\, inspire\, and unite against current threats while—from the ground up—setting a clear course towards a more perfect union. \nDuring EARNCon 2026\, we are celebrating Economic Policy Institute’s 40 years as the working people’s think tank. Thursday\, October 1st will include workshops and two plenaries followed by a reception reflecting four decades of the cutting-edge research centering the lives of working people. \nYour purchase of a 3-day EARNCon ticket or a Thursday-only ticket includes all EPI40 sessions and the evening event. If you would like to purchase a ticket to the EPI40 reception only\, please visit EPI40 Reception registration page. \nAlready registered? Don’t forget to reserve a room at the conference hotel. Reservations for the Mayflower Hotel can be made until September 8th (or until the room block is full): Book Here! \nEARN member organizations: Executive Directors should have received specific EARN Group registration information. Please reach out if your team has not received it. \nIf you have any questions please email earnconference@epi.org. \nCancellation / Refund Policy: Cancellation and refund requests may be made by reaching out to earnconference@epi.org. Refund requests received on or before August 31\, 2026\, are eligible for a refund\, minus applicable processing fees. \n\nHelp build the foundation to win state and local policies that advance racial\, economic\, and gender justice – become an EARNCon sponsor today! Learn more
URL:https://earn.us/event/earncon-2026/
LOCATION:The Mayflower Hotel\, 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20036\, United States
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