U.S. Domestic Workshops 2012
       

Workshops Coordinator

Larry Couch
Lobbyist, National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd

With a focus on the impact of the federal budget and economic policies on children, poor people, and other vulnerable populations, the Domestic Workshops will review budgetary priorities; address the issue of taxes and other revenues; examine economic inequality in terms of gender; highlight the scapegoating of immigrants in spite of their contributions to their communities; consider what health care reform means for poor people; give a close look at profits, prisons, and the church; and review the impact of privatization on jobs, accountability, and democracy.


Proposed Workshops

  • The Federal Budget, Inequality, and our Nation's Future

  • Taxes/Federal Revenues

  • Mind the Gap! Economic Inequality in the United States

  • Women and the Economy: Missed Facts and Realities

  • Keep Your State from Being 'Alabama-d': Immigrants Rights & the Economy

  • Privatization: Prisons, Profits and the Church

  • Privatization: Eroding Jobs, Accountability, and Democracy

  • Budget and Policy Injustice that Hurts Children: Poverty, Hunger, and Inequality of Income, Public Education, Enriched Pre-K, and Healthcare

  • What Health Care Reform Means for People Living in Poverty: The Progress and the Challenges– Linda Walling


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Ecumenical Advocacy Days
c/o Church World Service
110 Maryland Ave, NE Suite 404
Washington, DC 20002

Email: coordinator@advocacydays.org

Phone: (202) 543-1126 (Phone service provided by Presbyterian Office of Public Witness)

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