Economists Joseph Stiglitz and Joelle Gamble

Perkins Center webinar to discuss Ending Economic Inequality: New Pathways to Shared Prosperity

Wed, 02/15/2023 - 8:00am
Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute. (Photo courtesy Frances Perkins Center)
Joelle Gamble, Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. (Photo courtesy Frances Perkins Center)
Allison Beck, Frances Perkins Center Board Member. (Photo courtesy Frances Perkins Center)

    Register for the Frances Perkins Center’s online webinar, Thursday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m., with two leading American economists who work to solve the issues causing today’s high cost of economic inequality. Joseph Stiglitz and Joelle Gamble will discuss dynamic proposals and financial strategies to shape a stronger, more equitable, and healthier nation.

    Stiglitz is the Frances Perkins Center’s 2023 FPC Intelligence and Courage Award honoree and the Nobel Prize-winning Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute.

    Gamble, the Center’s 2017 FPC Open Door Award honoree ,is Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.

    FPC Board Member Allison Beck, former General Counsel of the Machinists Union and Director of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service FMCS under President Obama will moderate.

    An audience Q&A will be offered.

    For information and to register, visit www.FrancesPerkinsCenter.org

     

    About Frances Perkins

    Frances Perkins (1880-1965), the first woman to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet, was Secretary of Labor (1933-1945) for the entire tenure of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Perkins was the driving force behind many of the groundbreaking New Deal programs on which Americans still rely – Social Security, unemployment insurance, the 40-hour work week, and the minimum wage. Born in Boston, educated in the public schools of Worcester, and a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, she spent summers throughout her life at her ancestral family homestead in Newcastle, Maine, now a National Historic Landmark owned by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Frances Perkins Center.

    About the Frances Perkins Center

    The Frances Perkins Center is dedicated to honoring and preserving the legacy of the woman behind the New Deal by continuing Frances Perkins’ work for social justice and economic security and by preserving for future generations her nationally significant family homestead in Newcastle, Maine. The Homestead is currently undergoing a major restoration project and will open to the public in 2023.

    To learn more about the Frances Perkins Center, call (207) 563-3374, email info@francesperkinscenter.org, or visit www.FrancesPerkinsCenter.org.

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