Tag: EARNCon 2022

EARNCon Session: Unemployment Insurance Reform is a Racial Equity Imperative

Speakers

  • Kyra Miller (Moderator), National Women’s Law Center (NWLC)
  • Victor Sanchez, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
  • Tiffany Ferrette, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
  • Erika Washington, Make It Work Nevada

 

Session Description

In 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. The session will provide EARN groups opportunities to share and learn from each other’s recent experiences and strategies on state-level unemployment insurance reform and provide information about further opportunities for state UI advocates to connect.

EARNCon Session: Prioritizing equity, job quality, and climate goals in state and local uses of federal infrastructure funds

Speakers

  • Chandra Childers (Moderator), Economic Policy Institute
  • Leland Bass, Columbus Urban League/Columbus Building Futures
  • Ian Elder, Jobs to Move America
  • Joe Snyder, Communications Workers of America
  • JB Tengco, BlueGreen Alliance

 

Session Description

Federal funds now flowing to state and local governments for infrastructure projects provide historic opportunities to create good union jobs, strengthen labor standards, and increase equity in apprenticeship training and job access for women and workers of color. But these outcomes aren’t automatic, and important policy choices lie ahead.

This 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. Successfully leveraging infrastructure funding available in coming years will require high levels of engagement and collaboration among on-the-ground partners as well as familiarity with federal agency funding mechanisms, processes for drawing down funds, and how federal funds flow through states, local governments, or other entities.

EARNCon Session: Creating a Care Economy: Advancing Racial and Gender Justice by Building a Care Infrastructure in the States

Speakers

  • Kyra Miller (Moderator), National Women’s Law Center
  • Victor Sanchez, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
  • Tiffany Ferrette, Center for Law and Social Policy
  • Erika Washington, Make It Work Nevada

 

Session Description

This 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. Panelists will discuss equitable implementation of remaining relief dollars, state best practices on CCDBG and other care investments, campaign to improve care provisioning and working conditions in nursing facilities in Los Angeles County, narrative change work to position child care and home and community-based services as public goods, and long-term base-building work with a growing care movement centering racial and gender justice.

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

Speakers
  • Staci Fox, Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
  • Andrea Johnson, National Women’s Law Center
  • Sean O’Leary, West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Beulah Osueke, New Voices for Reproductive Justice (OH and PA)
  • Kyra Roby, One Voice Mississippi
Session Description
The 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.