{"id":14771,"date":"2025-09-19T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/?p=14771"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:37:17","slug":"cepr-webinar-is-black-full-employment-possible-without-affirmative-action-and-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/cepr-webinar-is-black-full-employment-possible-without-affirmative-action-and-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPR Webinar: Is Black Full Employment Possible Without Affirmative Action and DEI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/93vMX2cx9vc?si=HuxFoHHB0xJzCYYH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it&#8230;<\/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>The Center on Economic and Policy Resarch (CEPR) webinar\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=93vMX2cx9vc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=93vMX2cx9vc\">Is Black Full Employment Possible Without Affirmative Action and DEI?<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong>\u00a0explored how to achieve the economic justice goals of the March on Washington.\u00a0 Expert researchers and advocates discussed current challenges to Black employment, declining union density, policy solutions for good jobs and living wages, and pathways to economic opportunity.\u00a0 \u00a0This conversation is more urgent than ever as Black employment conditions worsen nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderator<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Bell, National Jobs for All Network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Panelists<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies<\/li>\n<li>Algernon Austin, Director for Race and Economic Justice, CEPR<\/li>\n<li>Hayley Brown, Research Associate, CEPR<\/li>\n<li>Chandra Childers, Senior Policy and Economic Analyst, Economic Analysis and Research Network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WgITp-6_yzQ?si=Om7API5LAmXPk4sM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also from CEPR:\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WgITp-6_yzQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WgITp-6_yzQ\">Mostly Economics Podcast #18: Beyond &#8220;I Have A Dream&#8221;: The Forgotten Economic Demands of 1963<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dean Baker speaks with historian Dr. William P. Jones about his book &#8220;The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement.&#8221; They explore how the famous march began as a protest for jobs and economic justice, the crucial role of labor unions in organizing the event, and why the economic demands\u2014including full employment and a living minimum wage\u2014have been largely erased from popular memory. The conversation also examines how these economic justice goals remain unfulfilled today, from the decline of union power to recent spikes in Black unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>See also:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cepr.net\/publications\/martin-luther-kings-call-for-subsidized-jobs-the-black-jobs-deficit-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/cepr.net\/publications\/martin-luther-kings-call-for-subsidized-jobs-the-black-jobs-deficit-2024\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1758391445082000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Y-HUKiIkQC9ESjjA9P7xC\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/cepr.net\/publications\/martin-luther-kings-call-for-subsidized-jobs-the-black-jobs-deficit-2024\/\">Martin Luther King\u2019s Call for Subsidized Jobs: The Black Jobs Deficit, 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it&#8230; 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. The Center on Economic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/cepr-webinar-is-black-full-employment-possible-without-affirmative-action-and-dei\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CEPR Webinar: 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":[44,14,33,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-on-employment-unemployment","category-full-employment-history","category-unemployment","category-videos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771","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=14771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14775,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions\/14775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}