{"id":14702,"date":"2025-08-22T08:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/?p=14702"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:20:39","slug":"8-27-wed-1-pm-webinar-is-black-full-employment-possible-without-affirmative-action-and-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/8-27-wed-1-pm-webinar-is-black-full-employment-possible-without-affirmative-action-and-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"8\/27 WED @ 1 PM Webinar > Is Black Full Employment Possible Without Affirmative Action and DEI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/90107efdf8a83009f7945ac63\/images\/4ca50f77-4b13-d1b3-e46c-23c220061537.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"475\" align=\"center\" data-file-id=\"7030856\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/90107efdf8a83009f7945ac63\/images\/4ca50f77-4b13-d1b3-e46c-23c220061537.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sixty-two years ago, 250,000 people convened in Washington, DC to demand &#8220;meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages&#8221; for all workers. The March on Washington was not merely a moral appeal to the nation, but also an economic one.\u00a0 \u00a0Today, that dream of full employment remains unfulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>Join the Center for Economic Policy Research&#8217;s webinar &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cepr.net\/events\/is-black-full-employment-possible-without-affirmative-action-and-dei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/cepr.net\/events\/is-black-full-employment-possible-without-affirmative-action-and-dei\/\">Is Black Full Employment Possible Without Affirmative Action and DEI?<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; on August 27 at 1 PM EST as we explore how to achieve the economic justice goals of the March on Washington.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/MOW62\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/MOW62\">Register today.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Expert researchers and advocates will discuss current challenges to Black employment, union density, policy solutions for good jobs and living wages, and pathways to economic opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>This conversation is more urgent than ever as Black employment conditions worsen nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dedrick Asante-Muhammad<\/strong>, President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Algernon Austin<\/strong>, Director for Race and Economic Justice, CEPR<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hayley Brown<\/strong>, Research Associate, CEPR<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chandra Childers<\/strong>, Senior Policy and Economic Analyst, Economic Analysis and Research Network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moderator:\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Chuck Bell<\/strong>, National Jobs for All Network<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/cepr.net\/events\/is-black-full-employment-possible-without-affirmative-action-and-dei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/cepr.net\/events\/is-black-full-employment-possible-without-affirmative-action-and-dei\/\">Center for Economic Policy Research<\/a>, National Jobs for All Network and Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-two years ago, 250,000 people convened in Washington, DC to demand &#8220;meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages&#8221; for all workers. The March on Washington was not merely a moral appeal to the nation, but also an economic one.\u00a0 \u00a0Today, that dream of full employment remains unfulfilled. Join the Center for Economic Policy Research&#8217;s webinar&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/8-27-wed-1-pm-webinar-is-black-full-employment-possible-without-affirmative-action-and-dei\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">8\/27 WED @ 1 PM Webinar &gt; Is Black Full Employment Possible Without Affirmative Action and DEI?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,48,6,52,25,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-leaders","category-concerned-citizens","category-constituents","category-measuring-unemployment","category-policy-makers","category-solutions","category-unemployment-data"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14703,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions\/14703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}