[Mitai-announce] The Path to Full Employment: One Week from Today

[Daniel E. Pritchard]

*The Path to FULL EMPLOYMENT
Thursday, February 24th
4:30–6:00 pm
*MIT E14-633 (in the MIT Media Lab Complex)
75 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA

Full Employment was once a policy goal in the United States for both sides
of the aisle. But the idea of putting all people to work has been put aside
for decades. Today the global economy continues to reel from the financial
and housing crises, and unemployment remains rampant in the United States.
What is the solution? How do we get back on the path?

Economist *Robert Pollin*, AFL-CIO chief economist *Ron Blackwell*, and MIT
Professors *David Autor* and *Thomas Kochan*, revive the critical but
long-dormant debate. Moderated by MIT Political Science Chair Richard Locke,
and based on the Forum feature in the Jan/Feb issue of *Boston
Review*<http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.1/ndf_employment.php>
.

This event is free and open to the public, and the discussion will be
followed by a Q&A with the audience. "The Path to Full Employment" is part
of the *Ideas Matter* lecture series, co-sponsored by *Boston Review* and
the MIT Political Science Department. For more information, visit
www.bostonreview.net/ideasmatter or find this event on
Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185078464855459>
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*--- About the Speakers* ---

*Robert Pollin* is Professor of Economics at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst and coauthor of *A Measure of Fairness: The Economics
of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States*.

*David Autor* is Professor of Economics at MIT and Editor-in-Chief of *The
Journal of Economic Perspectives*.

*Ron Blackwell* is Chief Economist at the AFL-CIO and former Academic Dean
at the New School.

*Thomas A. Kochan* is George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at MIT
and author of *Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families’ Agenda for
America*.

*Richard Locke* is the Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and
Management at MIT, and coauthor of * Working in America: A Blueprint for the
New Labor Market*.


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