Co-Conveners

ALIGN: The Alliance for a Greater New York  • Citizen Action of New York • Communication Workers of America • Community Voices Heard • Demos  • Drum Major Institute • Service Employees International Union Local 1199 • Fiscal Policy Institute • Make the Road New York • National Employment Law Project • New Deal for New York • The Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council • Progressive States Network • Public Policy and Education Fund • Strong Economy for All Coalition • Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ • VOCAL-NY

Agenda

8:30-9:00    Registration

9:00-9:30    Welcome

• Dave Palmer, Executive Director, Center for Working Families
• Council Members Brad Lander and Melissa Mark-Viverito, Co-Chairs of the New York City Council Progressive Caucus

9:30-11:00   Plenary

Job Creation and Fair Share Taxation

• Opening Remarks: Bob Master, Legislative and Political Director, Communications Workers of America District One
• Hon. Karim Camara, NYS Assembly and Chair of the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus
• Steven Kest, Fight for a Fair Economy, SEIU
• Brenda McPhail, Community Voices Heard
• James Parrott, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute: NY’s Unemployment Crisis and Income Polarization

11:00-12:00  Concurrent Panels

Green Jobs are Real: Next Steps for New York

• MODERATOR: Anthony Ng, Green & Equitable Economies Strategist, Center for Working Families
• Miranda Massie, Legal Director, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
• Jackson Morris, Senior Policy Advisor, Pace Energy & Climate Center: The New York Solar Jobs Act
• Hon. Kevin Parker, New York State Senate and ranking member, Committee on Energy and Telecommunications
• Devashree Saha, Senior Policy Analyst, The Brookings Institution - Metropolitan Policy Program: Sizing the Clean Economy - A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment
• Elizabeth Yeampierre, Executive Director, United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park (UPROSE)

The Right to Retire: How to Win Pensions for All New Yorkers

• MODERATOR: Chloe Tribich, Communications Director, Center for Working Families
• John Adler, Retirement Security Campaign Director,  SEIU
• Teresa Ghilarducci, Director, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) at the New School: Reinventing Retirement Security
• Hon. Rory Lancman, New York State Assembly and member, Committee on Labor

How Public Banking Could End the Credit Crunch & Fuel Job Growth in New York

• MODERATOR: Sunshine Ludder, Senior Economic Policy Strategist, Center for Working Families
• Richard Brodsky, Senior Fellow, Demos
• Barbara Dudley, Co-Chair, Oregon Working Families Party
• Ben Geyerhahn, Director of Special Projects, Small Business Majority
• Frank Mauro, Executive Director, Fiscal Policy Institute
• Hon. Michael Miller, New York State Assembly and member, Committee on Banks
• Resource: Banking on America - How Main Street Partnership Banks Can Improve Local Economies - Report by Heather McGhee and Jason Judd of Demos (April 2011)

Taking Stock of New York’s Health Care Exchange

• MODERATOR: Jessica Wisneski, Legislative Director of Citizen Action of New York and the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York
• Elisabeth Benjamin, Vice President of Health Initiatives, Community Service Society: New York State Insurance Exchange
• Hon. Richard Gottfried, NYS Assembly and Chair, Committee on Health
• Hon. Liz Krueger, New York State Senate and ranking member, Committee on Finance
• Celia Wcislo, Assistant Division Director, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East: Massachusetts Health Care Reform

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:15   Plenary

How to Beat Back the Big Bucks: The Opportunity for “Voter-Owned” Public Financing in New York State

• MODERATOR: Jeannette Galanis, National Field Director, Public Campaign
• Pete Grannis,  First Deputy Comptroller, Office of the State Comptroller
• Michael Malbin, Executive Director, Campaign Finance Institute: Should NYC’s Campaign Finance System be a Model for NY State (and others)?
• Hon. Gary Holder-Winfield, Connecticut General Assembly
• Hon. Gustavo Rivera, New York State Senate

2:15-3:00     Closing Keynote: Barbara Ehrenreich

• Introduction: Sunshine Ludder, Senior Economic Policy Strategist, Center for Working Families
• Closing: Joe Rappaport, Policy Director, Center for Working Families

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