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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
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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:20260525T041209
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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:20260525T041209
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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:20260525T041209
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
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T110000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
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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:20260525T041209
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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:20260525T041209
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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
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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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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:20260525T041209
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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:20260525T041209
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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:OH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T150000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
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:OH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
CREATED:20210803T142104Z
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:OH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T150000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
CREATED:20210722T114449Z
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:OH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
CREATED:20210804T171332Z
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:OH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
CREATED:20210803T142059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T211157Z
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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:OH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T150000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
CREATED:20210803T142057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T211619Z
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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:OH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
CREATED:20210803T173125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210927T213356Z
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SUMMARY:Welcome to EARNConversations: Transformative Investments in Workers\, Communities\, and Job Quality
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register for EARNCon!\n  \nSpeakers \n\nNaomi Walker (Moderator)\, Director of EARN\, Economic Policy Institute\nMelissa Boteach\, Vice President for Income Security and Child Care/Early Learning\, National Women’s Law Center\nKitty Richards\, Director of State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds\, U.S. Treasury Office of Recovery Program\nBranden Snyder\, Executive Director\, Detroit Action\nAmy Sugimori\, Director of Policy and Legislation\, 32BJ SEIU\n\n\n  \nSession Description \n\nIn this session\, speakers will reflect on critical learnings from the pandemic and discuss how they should be used to shape future policy. We will discuss ways state and local governments can make transformative investments in public infrastructure\, high-quality jobs\, public health systems\, and worker supports using unprecedented levels of Federal support. Speakers will address how state and local recovery fund impact advocates and organizers\, how resources can be leveraged to improve wages and working conditions\, the need for investments in human capital\, and strategies to engage in the political process to use federal funds.
URL:https://earn.us/event/opening-plenary/
LOCATION:OH
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
CREATED:20210722T125955Z
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SUMMARY:EARNConversations 2021
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to continue EARNConversations again this year and provide a week-long series of virtual discussions that lift up state and local policy research from across the Network and provide you with the ideas and resources you need to better advocate for racial\, gender\, and economic justice. \nThis is a pivotal moment during which we have an opportunity to make transformative investments in our communities and reforms to the standards and supports that for too long have left many working people struggling to get by. EARNConversations will bring together researchers\, advocates\, and grassroots organizers to strategize how states and localities can act on the lessons of the past year and use an unprecedented supply of resources to build worker power and improve the well-being of working families. \nLike last year\, registration is free. We hope this will enable a diverse coalition of local\, state\, and national partners to join in the conversation. Please share the link with key allies and coalition partners. Register for EARNConversations 2021 by Friday\, September 17 to receive the full agenda\, resources\, and session login details. Select the “Full Conference” ticket to receive event updates and meeting login information for all sessions or select tickets for the individual events you wish to join. \nWhen you register for EARNConversations this year\, you will gain access to two pre-EARNCon sessions and a week of strategic discussions and workshops starting Monday\, September 27 at 3:00 pm ET / 12:00 pm PT. Here is the full list of offerings: \n\nVirtual Meet Up – Monday\, September 20 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET / 11:00 am – 12:00 pm PT. Connect with EARN’s local\, state\, and national partners and allies for lively discussion and networking.\nEARN 101:  – Wednesday\, September 22 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET / 11:00 am – 12:00 pm PT. For new staff to learn about the network\, meet key EARN contacts at the Economic Policy Institute\, explore EARN’s online data tools and resources\, and gain insight into key economic concepts\, data sources\, and common analytical strategies for EARN work.\nWelcome to EARNConversations: Transformative Investments in Workers\, Communities\, and Job Quality – Monday\, September 27 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm ET / 12:00 – 2:00 pm PT.   In this session\, speakers will reflect on critical learnings from the pandemic and discuss how they should be used to shape future policy. We will discuss ways state and local governments can make transformative investments in public infrastructure\, high-quality jobs\, public health systems\, and worker supports using unprecedented levels of Federal support.\nState of the National Economy – Tuesday\, September 28 from 1:30 – 3:00 pm ET / 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PT. In this session\, EPI economists and researchers share their take on the current economic trends\, federal policymaking\, and where they think we’re heading in the coming year. Economist AMA (Ask Me Anything) breakouts will enable participants to engage directly in conversation with EPI experts on everything from inflation fears and wage trends to care work standards and policies to achieve racial equity. Bring your questions!\nEconomic Recovery & Worker Justice for All: Growing the Economy Through Antiracist Policy – Tuesday\, September 28 from 3:30 – 5:00 pm. Every 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.\nHow We Organize\, How We Win: State-Level Action to Gain Labor Rights and Build Worker Power – Wednesday\, September 29 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm ET / 12:00 – 2:00 pm PT. This session will introduce EARN’s new Worker Power Project and provide a comparative look at how strategic state campaigns to expand workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain are advancing racial\, gender\, and economic justice. Participants will come away with a shared understanding of how state labor policies critically shape the well-being of women and workers of color\, and current opportunities to advance labor rights in specific sectors.\nData Bootcamp: Develop important skills and learn key techniques of economic and statistical analysis for use in your work evaluating\, designing\, and advocating for economic policies that empower workers.\n\nData Bootcamp: Intro to Stata – Thursday\, September 30 from 1:30 – 3:00 pm ET / 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PT.\nData Bootcamp: Intro to R – Thursday\, September 30 from 3:30 – 5:00 pm ET / 12:30 – 2:00 pm PT.\nData Bootcamp: Next Steps in Stata – Friday\, October 1 from 1:30 – 3:00 pm ET / 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PT.\nData Bootcamp: Next Steps in R – Friday\, October 1 from 3:30 – 5:00 pm ET / 12:30 – 2:00 pm PT.\n\n\n\nFor regular updates about EARNConversations\, continue checking out the EARNConversations website page . If you have questions\, please feel free to direct them to Lea Woods at lwoods@epi.org. We hope to see you at EARNConversations 2021 starting this September 27!
URL:https://earn.us/event/earnconversations-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T150000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
CREATED:20210804T160945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210804T171338Z
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SUMMARY:EARN 101
DESCRIPTION:For new members to meet the network\, learn about EARN’s data tools and other online resources\, and develop key concepts and tools in Excel.\n\n\nClick Here to Register for EARN 101!\nFor new members to meet the network\, learn about EARN’s data tools and other online resources\, and develop key concepts and tools in Excel. \nEARN 101 is a foundational workshop for people who are new to the network\, who are new to state and local policy analysis\, or who are interested in getting more mileage out of EARN’s data tools and online resources along other good data sources for state and local analyses and key concepts and common analytical tools in Excel.
URL:https://earn.us/event/earn-101/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210920T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210920T150000
DTSTAMP:20260525T041209
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210809T172312Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Meet Up
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register for a Pre-EARNCon Virtual Meet Up!\nConnect with EARN’s local\, state\, and national partners and allies for lively discussion and networking. \nEARN 101 is a foundational workshop for people who are new to the network\, who are new to state and local policy analysis\, or who are interested in getting more mileage out of EARN’s data tools and online resources along other good data sources for state and local analyses and key concepts and common analytical tools in Excel.
URL:https://earn.us/event/virtual-meet-up/
LOCATION:OH
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