8:00 am Registration and Light Breakfast
485 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
8:20 am Welcome
*Randy Albelda, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston
*Khymi Woo, Scholar, One Family, Inc.
8:30 am Opening Plenary: Introduction to the Project and Findings
Moderator: Liz Chimienti, CEPR
*Heather Boushey, Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research
*Peter Edelman, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
*John Quinterno, Research Associate, North Carolina Justice Center
9:15 amPanel 1: Universal versus Targeted Work Support Debate
Moderator: Heather Boushey, CEPR
*Randy Albelda, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston
*John Bouman, President, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
*Shawn Fremstad, Co-Founder, Inclusion
*Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
*Trudi Renwick, Senior Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute (New York)
10:45 amPanel ends. Audience walks to the Top of the Hill Conference Center (1 Constitution Ave, NE) where the rest of the conference will be held.
11:15 amPanel 2: Are Employer-Provided Benefits a Thing of the Past?
Moderator: John Schmitt, CEPR
*Cecelie Counts, Legislative Representative, AFL-CIO
*Laura Dresser, Associate Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy
*Atiba Madyun, Division Director, National Black Caucus of State Legislators
*Carrie Thomas, Policy Director, JOBS NOW Coalition (Minnesota)
*Aliya Wong, Director of Pension Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
12:30 pmLunch
Moderator: Donna Haig Friedman, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston
*Alice O’Connor, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, will discuss research techniques and their impact on policy outcomes
1:30 pmPanel 3: Federal versus State Solutions Debate
Moderator: Michael Ettlinger, Economic Analysis Research Network, EPI
*Frances Deviney, Texas KIDS COUNT Director, Center for Public Policy Priorities
*Ezra Klein, Writer, The American Prospect
*Ed Lazere, Executive Director, DC Fiscal Policy Institute
*Nathan Newman, Policy Director, Progressive States Network
*Sheila Zedlewski, Director, Income & Benefits Policy Center, Urban Institute
2:45 pmBreak
3:00 pmPanel 4: Finding the Public Will
Moderator: Alan Barber, CEPR
*Meg Bostrom, President, Public Knowledge LLC
*Jen Kern, Director, National Living Wage Resource Center, ACORN
*Phil Sparks, Executive Vice President & Co-Founder, Communications Consortium Media Center
*Ruy Teixeira, Joint Fellow, Center for American Progress & The Century Foundation
4:15 pmClosing Remarks
4:25 pmScreening of “Waging a Living”
An in-depth look at the experiences of three working Americans living in the hardships gap. The full-length version of this 26-minute documentary first aired on PBS in August 2006.