House Committee on Education and Labor Holds Hearing on Job Creation
On Friday, October 24 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and Labor will hold a hearing in Washington, DC to focus on the nation’s severe unemployment outlook and strategies to spur job growth, as part of efforts to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive economic recovery and job creation program.
The witnesses will be
*Hon. Charles E. F. Millard, Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
*Jared Bernstein, Director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute
*Ron Blackwell, Chief Economist for the AFL-CIO
*Christopher Hansen, President and CEO of AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association)
*Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics and Founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
*Dana Stevens, an unemployed worker from Thorofare, New Jersey
*William W. Beach, Director of Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation
Watch the live webcast of the hearing.
Read more from the National Employment Law Project’s Unemployed Workers initiative.
