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 FINANCIAL ISSUES AND PRIVATIZATION
“Financial Aspects of the Social Security ‘Problem’” Stephanie Bell, C-FEPS, University of Missouri - Kansas City
“Privatizing Social Security to Inflate Stock Market Prices” Michael Hudson, Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends
11:30am “Seven Good Reasons Not To Privatize Social Security” Barbara R. Bergmann, American University and University of Maryland
12:30pm LUNCH (free for those who pre-register - call 816-235-1153)
1:30pm NEOLIBERAL ATTACKS AND PROGRESSIVE SOLUTIONS
“Globalization, Neoliberalism and the Attack on Social Security” Christopher Niggle, University of California - Redlands
“A Progressive Agenda for the Future of Social Security” Thomas I. Palley, AFL-CIO
2:30pm “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. For more information, please call 816-235-1153. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20011031/a0fe0bdd/attachment.htm>