Our guest today is Allison Duwe, the Executive Director of the Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ) in Buffalo. Along with UB Law Professors Sara Faherty, Sam Magavern, and Martha McCluskey, she was a co-organizer of the recent conference, The High Road Runs Through the City: Advocating for Economic Justice at the Local Level. For more information on that event, see http://highroad.wikispaces.com. Duwe moderated the panel, New Frontiers for the Living Wage, and was a speaker on the panel Now Comes the Hard Part: Implementing and Enforcing Living Wage Ordinances and Worker Protection Laws.
Ms. Duwe has been a leader in CEJ’s effort to pass and enforce Buffalo's living wage ordinance. Currently the Coalition is also working to reform economic development subsidies, advocating for legislation to improve transparency and fairness in New York State’s Empire Zone programs and Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs). Join us for a conversation with Allison Duwe as she talks about her work in the CEJ with UB law students Jose Velez, Emily Dillon, and Eduardo Machado.
Our guest today
is Joel Rogers, Professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of COWS (Center on
Wisconsin Strategy). Rogers is the author of numerous books,
including Metro Futures: Economic Solutions for Cities and Their
Suburbs (1999, with Daniel D. Luria and Joshua Cohen), The Forgotton
Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters (2001, with Ruy
A. Tuixiera; On Democracy (1983, with Joshua Cohen). Rogers also is
a contributing editor at The Nation and Boston Review and writes
widely for popular media on questions of economic policy. He has
helped create numerous public interest organizations, including
Center for State Innovation and the Apollo Alliance, and was honored
with a MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellowship.
Professor Rogers
visited Buffalo recently to participate in the conference The High
Road Runs Through the City: Advocating for Economic Justice at the
Local Level, organized by UB Law Professors Sara Faherty, Sam
Magavern, and Martha McCluskey, and hosted by UB’s Baldy Center
on Law and Social Policy, Cornell University ILR School, and the
Coalition for Economic Justice. Rogers, who developed the concept of
“high road” economic development spoke about changing
economic policy on the panel, Making it Last: Building Progressive
Movements into Local Institutions. He also spoke as part of a
keynote address on Deep Economics, in response to author and
environmentalist Bill McKibben (author of Deep Economy: The Wealth
of Communities and a Durable Future). For more information on the
conference, see http://highroad.wikispaces.com/.
Join us for a
conversation with UB Law Professor Martha McCluskey and Joel Rogers
discussing his ideas and leadership in developing economic policies
that provide better jobs, better cities, and environmental
sustainability.
