Category: Constituents

The Jobs and Human Rights Task Force: Jobs For All’s Connecticut Arm

by Sarianna Sabbarese In Connecticut, soaring wealth and deep poverty are practically neighbors.  A microcosm of the income and wealth inequality that negatively impacts so many Americans, Connecticut has become an important site for the National Jobs for All Network (NJFAN) to begin laying state-level groundwork for a Federal Job Guarantee.  The CT Jobs and… Read More The Jobs and Human Rights Task Force: Jobs For All’s Connecticut Arm

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Review of The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, ILR Press, 2022

by Trudy Goldberg According to Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, our future would be a lot brighter and our democracy much healthier if collective bargaining were much more widespread and applied to economic encounters beyond the workplace.  Smiley is Executive Director of Jobs with Justice, and Gupta is currently the Ford Foundation’s Vice President of… Read More Review of The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, ILR Press, 2022

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NJFAN’s Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force Expands Outreach:  Former Social Work Interns Join Staff as Organizers

The Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force is the outcome of a 2021 virtual New Haven Town Hall meeting to raise consciousness of the problem of unemployment in Connecticut and the need for sustainable jobs that meet human needs. Building on a model initiated in Dayton Ohio and later implemented in Memphis Tennessee by… Read More NJFAN’s Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force Expands Outreach:  Former Social Work Interns Join Staff as Organizers

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New Leadership for Columbia Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity

Raúl Carrillo and Mark Paul, two outstanding young leaders in movements for economic, social, and climate justice, were recently elected co-chairs of the Columbia Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity.* The Full Employment Seminar was founded in 1987 by Columbia Professor Sumner Rosen and other academics and activists who would go on to… Read More New Leadership for Columbia Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity

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