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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