YOU NEED A RAISE! Fighting Growing Income Inequality and the Policies that Foster It

~ A Public Policy Forum Featuring:

·        
Hedrick
Smith, Pulitzer-Prize winner, author of “Who Stole the American Dream?”  (Book sales/signings in lobby from 6-7 p.m.)

·        
Thea
Lee, deputy chief of staff, AFL-CIO President's Office

·        
Dean Baker,
co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research

·        
Lori
Wallach, director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch

·        
Lawrence
Mishel, president, Economic Policy Institute

·        
Moderator: Solon Simmon, interim dean, George
Mason University School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution

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Chair: Sandra Klassen, National Affairs
Committee, Fairfax County Democratic Committee

~ For most Americans, income has stagnated over the last 30
years while the incomes for the top one percent have sky rocketed. Recovery
from the recession has been slow. Most Americans have not participated in the

recovery, and policies have not been implemented that reverse this trend.

To discuss the
causes and the cost of income inequality and policy recommendations to address
the problem, a coalition of labor,
policy, faith-based, and political organizations will cosponsor a policy forum
on October 17 featuring Hedrick Smith, Dean Baker, and other experts.

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Host sponsor:
National Affairs Committee, Fairfax County Democratic Committee.

Cosponsors:  Virginia AFL-CIO; Economic Policy Institute
Policy Center; Center for Economic and Policy Research; Northern Virginia Labor
Federation; Virginia Progressive Caucus; Fairfax County NAACP;  Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans of
Virginia; Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice in the National Capital

Region; the Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax City, Fairfax County, Prince William

County, 2nd 8th and 11th Congressional District Democratic Committees;

Progressive Democrats of America – Virginia; Northern Virginia Move to Amend;

and Herndon Voices.