<BODY BGCOLOR="#80ffff">Center for Full Employment and Price Stability 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.</HTML>