Keeping Alive the Dream: The Seminar on Full Employment,Social Welfare, and Equity (#613), by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and Sheila D. Collins, with Helen Lachs Ginsburg From: A Community of Scholars, edited by Thomas Vinciguerra, a book published as part of the 75th– anniversary celebration of the founding of the University Seminars. The book brings together essays… Read More Keeping Alive the Dream (2020)
by Trudy Goldberg As advocates of Jobs for All we are deeply indebted to Coretta Scott King for her spirited and sustained leadership in the quest for full employment. In 1974, Scott King and Murray Finley, head of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, founded the National Committee for Full Employment/Full Employment Action Council… Read More Celebrating Black History Month 2026: Honoring Coretta Scott King
In case you missed it… Sixty-two years ago, 250,000 people convened in Washington, DC to demand “meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages” for all workers. The March on Washington was not merely a moral appeal to the nation, but also an economic one. Today, that dream of full employment remains unfulfilled. The Center on Economic… Read More CEPR Webinar: Is Black Full Employment Possible Without Affirmative Action and DEI?
Professor June Hopkins We are pleased to present a summary of Professor June Hopkins’ presentation to the Columbia Seminar Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity (May 12, 2025): “A Social Worker’s Fight for Full Employment.” Professor Hopkins is the granddaughter and biographer of New Deal Relief Administrator and Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins. Attending the presentation were June Hopkins’… Read More Harry Hopkins, A Social Worker’s Fight for Full Employment
University of Chicago Press, 2023. Reviewed by Trudy Goldberg In this ambitious, important book–especially for advocates of economic justice—economist Mark Paul “offer[s] a comprehensive prescription that aims to address the problem of persistent economic insecurity in America, one based on an expanded notion of American freedom and grounded in an alternative model of economic thought.”… Read More Book Review: The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights, by Mark Paul
