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CRY WOLF WORKSHOP
January 15, 2011
University of California, Santa Barbara
This workshop is sponsored by the San Diego-based Center on Policy Initiatives and funded by a grant from the Public Welfare Foundation. Donald Cohen of CPI, Peter Dreier of Occidental College, and Nelson Lichtenstein of UC Santa Barbara constitute the ad hoc committee now administrating this initiative.
Peter Dreier is E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy program, at Occidental College. He is coauthor of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century and The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City. He writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and American Prospect. From 1984-92 he served as senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn. He is chair of the Horizon Institute, an LA-based think tank. He also serves on the boards of several organizations, including the LA Alliance for a New Economy , the Liberty Hill Foundation, the National Housing Institute, and the Southern CA Assn for Nonprofit Housing.
Donald Cohen is the co-founder and president of the Center on Policy Initiatives, a San Diego-based research, and policy center. Cohen has over 30 years of experience in campaigns and organizations dedicated to economic justice, healthcare reform, education reform, environmental protection, and international human rights. He is the former Political Director of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO. He is a founding board member of the Partnership for Working Families, a national federation of metropolitan-based research, policy and action centers. He is a founding board member of the Horizon Institute, a progressive Los Angeles-based think tank.
Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation Chair in History at UC Santa Barbara and Director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy. He is the author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor and Walter Reuther: the Most Dangerous Man in Detroit.
Working Policy Briefs
Philip Ashton: "Community Reinvestment Act &Responsible Lending" and "Community Reinvestment Act's Revisionist Historians"
Stephanie Luce: "Living Wage Ordinances," "Minimum Wages," and "It’s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage"
Stephanie Luce, “Crying Wolf Over Higher Wages in a Time of Need,” Huffington Post, posted December 9, 2010
Laurence Glickman: "Public Spending: An Idea in Need of Revival" and "Reviving a Public Spending Agenda"
Jason Scott Smith: "Public Investment in Infrastructure" and op-ed
Joseph McCartin: “Scapegoating Government Workers” and "Public Sector Unions v. Taxpayers: The Potent Revival of a Long-Running Trope"
Joe Thorndike: "The Estate Tax: Making the Nation’s Tax System Fair and Progressive"
Joseph Thorndike, “What’s the Estate Tax Supposed to Do, Anyway?,” Huffington Post, posted December 16, 2010
Ellie Shermer: "Insuring the Unemployed for Stimulus, Stability, and Recovery"
Peter Dreier and Elizabeth Shermer, “Screwing the Jobless: Are Republicans Heartless or Just Playing Politics?,” Huffington Post, posted July 20, 2010
Links to other Policy Briefs
Donald Cohen and Peter Dreier, “Darrell Issa Invites His Capitalist Cronies to Cry Wolf,” Huffington Post, posted January 5, 2011
Peter Dreier and Donald Cohen, “Ignore the Fear-Mongering on Social Security,” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2010
Steven Pearlstein, “’'Job-killing' regulation? 'Job-killing' spending? Let's kill this GOP canard,” Washington Post, January 6, 2011
David Rosner and Gerald Markovitz, “OSHA at Forty,” Huffington Post, posted January 4, 2011
Harold Meyerson, "Dangerous outcomes from a culture of paranoia," Washington Post, Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Madeline Janis, "California Dreaming in the Worst Way," Los Angeles Business Journal, September 27, 2010
