Events

BOOK-AND-AUTHOR RECEPTION

With HEATHER BOUSHEY, ROBERT KUTTNER, MEIZHU LUI, JAMES LARDNER, BETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT and others. Cosponsored by United for a Fair Economy and Demos.

4:30 - 6:30 pm. in the atrium of the historic Mary Baker Eddy Library of the Christian Science Center, 200 Massachusetts Avenue. in the Back Bay neighborhood. For more information, call 617-423-2148 x113.

THE GROWING ECONOMIC DIVIDE

JAMES LARDNER will speak on the causes and far-reaching consequences of more than a quarter century of rising inequality in America. Cosponsored by Demos and the All Souls Task Force on Housing.

1:00 – 2:30 pm at the Unitarian Church of All Souls (Fellowship Hall), 1157 Lexington Avenue at 79th Street. Tel 212-535-5530.

SOUNDING THE ALARM: THE GROWING ECONOMIC DIVIDE IN MINNESOTA AND AMERICA

A public forum with co-authors JAMES LARDNER and MILES RAPOPORT, plus KAREN KELLEY-ARIWOOLA, Vice President of Community Philanthropy at The Minneapolis Foundation; MARY BRAINERD, President and Chief Executive Officer of HealthPartners and member of the Itasca Project; and NAN MADDEN, Minnesota Budget Project Director at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. Cosponsored by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, Demos, the Citizens League, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, The Itasca Project, the Midwest States Center and the Minneapolis Foundation.

2:30 - 4:30 p.m. at Children's Home Society & Family Services, 1605 Eustis St., St. Paul. Free parking is available in adjacent lots. No charge, but please RSVP to Stephanie Haddad at stephanie@mncn.org or 651-642-1904, ext. 227.

MAKING INEQUALITY MATTER: HOW TO TALK ABOUT AMERICA'S GROWING ECONOMIC DIVIDE

With ROBERT M. FRANKLIN JR., Presidential Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University; MICKEY KAUS, columnist, blogger, author of “The End of Equality"; CELINDA LAKE, political consultant and president of Lake Research Partners; JAMES LARDNER, founder of Inequality.org and co-editor/contributor, “Inequality Matters”; and DAVE 'MUDCAT' SAUNDERS, co-Author, Foxes in the Henhouse. Moderated by DEREK DOUGLAS, Associate Director for Economic Policy, Center for American Progress.

12:30 - 2:00 pm at the Center for American Progress, 1333 H Street, NW - 10th Floor.

Jan 31
New York City

NEW SCHOOL

PAUL KRUGMAN will speak at a forum on a quarter century of growing economic inequality in America. LAURA FLANDERS will moderate a panel discussion with co-authors JAMES LARDNER and MEIZHU LUI and others. Cosponsored by the New Press and Demos.

7:00 - 9:00 pm at the Tishman auditorium of the New School for Social Research, 66 West 12th Street.

(The New School Box Office is closed for the holidays and university winter recess until Sunday, January 22, 2006. Reservations for upcoming events can be taken by phone at 212.229.5488 or via email at boxoffice@newschool.edu and messages will be checked. As of January 23, the box office will be open Mon.-Thurs. 1-8 p.m., Fri. 1-7 p.m.)

Mar 22
Raleigh-Durham NC

NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER

A forum organized by the Budget and Tax Center (NC Justice Center) in partnership with Demos. North Carolina Justice Center. Details to be announced. Speakers include JAMES LARDNER, co-editor and co-author of Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences; HEATHER BOUSHEY, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) as well as a contributor to the book; JOHN QUINTERNO, Research Associate at the NC Budget and Tax Center; and MEUZHU LUI, Executive Director of United for a Fair Economy and contributor to the book.

1:30 – 4:30pm at the Natural History Museum in Raleigh-Durham.

Mar 23
Chapel Hill NC

CENTER ON POVERTY, WORK AND OPPORTUNITY

Lunchtime talk by MILES RAPOPORT and JAMES LARDNER. 1st day of 2-day conference on "New Policies to Fight Poverty." Co-authors Meizhu Lui and Heather Boushey will also be speaking of the conference.

12-1:30 Alumni Center, UNC Chapel Hill

Mar 23
Raleigh/Durham NC

QUAILRIDGE BOOKSTORE

Bookstore Talk & Q&A with co-authors JAMES LARDNER and MEIZHU LUI.

6:15-7:00pm - Reception. 7:00-8:00pm - Talk/Q&A. Quailridge Bookstore in Raleigh-Durham, NC.

Apr 10
Cleveland
OH

CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY

4-5:30 pm - A public forum on the growing economic divide and its effects at the national and local level. Cosponsored by the Levin College Forum, Policy Matters Ohio, the Center for Community Solutions, and Demos. Speakers include JAMES LARDNER and MILES RAPOPORT

Apr 29
Melbourne
FL

SPACE COAST PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE

THE GROWING ECONOMIC DIVIDE IN FLORIDA AND AMERICA. Public forum with JAMES LARDNER, LAURA GOODHUE, TERRY EBERLE, JEZZE ZERMENO, CHARLES PETERS, SAM DETTRA, DR. WLLIAM GABRENYA. Co-sponsored by Demos and the Space Coast Progressive Alliance.