Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’
CSI BOARD MEMBER ROGER CLAY ON “SPOTLIGHT ON POVERTY”
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
CSI Board Member Roger Clay will being appearing on a panel moderated by Tavis Smiley tonight from 6:30-9:00 PM Eastern on a live broadcast on C-SPAN to discuss solutions for restoring America’s prosperity.
The panel,which also includes Michael Moore, Suze Orman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, and others, will react to a new Indiana University paper that examines the “new poor” and how the face of poverty in America has changed.
The conversation can also be viewed on C-SPAN and will be rebroadcast in three segments on the Tavis Smiley Show on PBS beginning Monday, January 16 through Wednesday, January 18.
For more information, please go to http://www.tavistalks.com/remakingamerica/?page_id=9It
We hope you will be able to watch.
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NEW CSI REPORT SHOWS THAT STATES CONTINUE TO FEEL THE RECESSION’S TOLL AND PEOPLE OF COLOR FEEL THE BRUNT OF THE BURDEN
Thursday, April 14th, 2011“The recession is over!” Or so economists and politicians like to claim. That statement is true if we define the term “recession” by the growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But when we define recession by its impact on the economic and social wellbeing of states, a very different story emerges. And while families across the nation continue to take a recessionary pounding, families of color are feeling even greater pain. The recession is not over – it is just hitting its stride.
The so-called “end of the recession” has dominated the conversation, providing the impetus and justifications for the latest round of cuts in the 2011 federal budget and proposed cuts in state budgets across the country even as people continue to suffer. Many of these proposed cuts are to the very programs that have helped people weather the storm: education, healthcare, food programs, and unemployment benefits.
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