The Social Security 'Crisis': Critical Analysis and Solutions
November 12, 2001 8:30am-5:00pm
University of Missouri - Kansas City - University Center - Room 106
Conference Schedule
9:00am REPORTS AND PROJECTIONS: SOME CRITICAL ANALYSES
"Killing Social Security Softly with Faux Kindness: The Draft Report by the President's Commission on Social Security Reform"
L. Randall Wray, C-FEPS, University of Missouri - Kansas City
"What Happened to the Social Security Surplus? - An Examination of the Trustees' Projections"
Max J. Skidmore, University of Missouri - Kansas City
10:30am PRIVATIZATION
"Privatizing Social Security to Inflate Stock Market Prices"
Michael Hudson, Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends
"Seven Good Reasons Not To Privatize Social Security"
Barbara R. Bergmann, American University and University of Maryland
12:00pm LUNCH (free for those who pre-register - call 816-235-1153)
1:00pm FINANCIAL ISSUES AND GLOBALIZATION
"Financial Aspects of the Social Security 'Problem'"
Stephanie Bell, C-FEPS, University of Missouri - Kansas City
"Globalization, Neoliberalism and the Attack on Social Security"
Christopher Niggle, University of California - Redlands
2:00 SOLUTIONS: SOCIAL SECURITY AND SOCIAL POLICY
"Making Social Security Even Better: A Progressive Reform Agenda"
Thomas I. Palley, AFL-CIO
"After Social Security: A Postindustrial Ethic for Social Policy"
Sanford F. Schram, Bryn Mawr College
3:30pm SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE ELDERLY
"Aging and the Market in the United States"
Ellen Frank, Emmanuel College
"Careless Words: How the Misleading Debate Over Social Security Will Bring Us Ham & Eggs in the 21st Century"
Daniel J. B. Mitchell, University of California - Los Angeles
The conference is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please call 816-235-1153, or email pinkhamk at umkc.edu