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.

EARNCon Plenary: Voices from the frontlines of new union organizing: Worker power, state policy, and racial, gender, and economic justice

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

This session 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.

Tracking the demands of the civil rights movement from the 1960s till today

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

This 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. 

EARNCon Session: Joining the fight for economic justice, racial justice, and abortion access

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

This session, led in coordination with the National Women's Law Center, will address the ways in which work toward income security, worker justice, and economic justice is deeply intertwined with the fight for abortion access, particularly for Black and Brown women.

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