Find Out What the Biden Administration Can Do To Make Sure Public Dollars Support Good Jobs Instead of Enriching Wealthy CEOs and Wall Street. The next two years provide a critical opportunity to catalyze public investments to move us away from a financialized economy rife with overpaid Wall Street executives and CEOs and underpaid workers, and toward an equitable, racially just, and sustainable economy. A quarter of private sector workers are employed in companies that contract with the federal government. Congress recently passed three stimulus bills totaling over $1.6 trillion in public investment. Much of that investment will flow to for-profit corporations. It’s essential that this public money achieves public goals, and is not siphoned off by Wall Street. The Biden Administration has already taken critical steps to ensure public funds further the public good. Join us to talk about how they can do more using executive action to ensure public investments serve the public good.
Featuring Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal as the keynote speaker, other speakers will include: Sarah Anderson, Global Economy Project Director and Inequality.org Co-editor, Institute for Policy Studies Zoe Lipman, Deputy Director, AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council Mike Lawliss, Senior Policy Coordinator, Jobs to Move America Jess Newman, Deputy Political Director, United for Respect Britni Cuington, Fiber technician at AT&T, CWA Member Anastasia Christman, Senior Policy Analyst, National Employment Law Center
Moderated by Natalia Renta, Senior Policy Counsel for Corporate Governance and Power, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund.
Live webinar took place on Monday, January 30th, 2023