Sessions
Session 1 | Holes in the Safety Net and Goals Yet to be Achieved
Tuesday, March 2: 11:45 AM ET / 8:45 AM PT
What holes exist today? Who is falling through the gaps and why?
SPEAKERS
Sharon Dietrich, Litigation Director and Managing Attorney – Employment Unit, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia
Shelly Nortz, Deputy Executive Director for Policy, Coalition for the Homeless
Tammy Seltzer, Director, DC Jail and Prison Advocacy Project, Disability Rights DC at University Legal Services
Additional speakers TBA
Session 2 | The Contemporary State of Needs
Tuesday, March 2: 1:05 PM ET / 10:05 AM PT
Focusing on the findings of the Academy’s Economic Security Study Panel, this session will examine several data points to begin a discussion of how a bolder, more coordinated effort across policy areas might address the needs of specific communities and improve the economic security of all Americans.
SPEAKERS
Jessica Bartholow, Chief of Staff, Senator Nancy Skinner, California State Senate
William A. Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
Kathryn Edwards, Economist, The RAND Corporation and Principal Investigator, Economic Security Study Panel
Additional speakers TBA
Session 3 | Restructuring and Bolstering the Existing System
Wednesday, March 3: 11:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM PT
This session will focus on opportunities to simplify, align, and improve existing programs. What can be achieved within the constraints of the current system (social insurance and social assistance programs)?
SPEAKERS
Bethany Lilly, Director of Income Policy, The Arc
Rebecca Vallas, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Additional speakers TBA
Session 4 | Foundations for a New System
Wednesday, March 3: 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT
This session will unpack how cash payments directly to individuals/households would be helpful to a variety of communities. How would a new system of cash payments fit within the current ecosystem of programs, and what might it accomplish for stakeholders that current programs cannot? What are the drawbacks?
SPEAKERS
Greg Kauffman, Contributing Writer, The Nation
Aisha Nyandoro, CEO, Springboard to Opportunities
Additional speakers TBA
Session 5 | Assuring Economic Security for All
Wednesday, March 3: 1:30 PM ET / 10:30 AM PT
Designed to build on earlier sessions of the conference, Session 5 will focus on how combined approaches – using guaranteed income policies and other ways to improve current programs – might form contemporary pathways to economic security. Stakeholders will also discuss lessons learned from past efforts, and where we must be careful moving forward.
SPEAKERS
Charleigh Flohr, Research Manager, Public Education and Research Program, Human Rights Campaign
Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, The New School
Samuel Hammond, Director of Poverty and Welfare Policy, Niskanen Center
John Taylor, Immediate Past President, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (United Kingdom)
Session 6 | Financing Assured Income
Thursday, March 4: 11: 45 AM ET / 8:45 AM PT
This session will discuss equitable options to raise tax revenues to finance new income security spending, and the implications for economic security of certain tax policies. What tax policies might be feasible?
SPEAKERS TBA