It's Called Foster Care!

Thanks to the generosity of the Russell Sage Foundation, the Economic Policy Institute is pleased to present a two-event series of forums on the negative consequences of persistently high unemployment. Please join us on November 18 for the concluding event:

The Scarring Effects of Persistently High Unemployment: Children's suffering can last generations

It's called foster care!

"Failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child is called child abuse and neglect."

In this the second of a two-part series examining the impact of alarmingly high and long-term unemployment, the Economic Policy Institute, in partnership with the Russell Sage Foundation, invites you to join us as we explore the impact of parental unemployment on the development of a child.

An unemployed worker is clearly affected when they lose their job, but a child who grows up in a family impacted by the extended unemployment of a parent will feel those effects compounded through their adult life. Speakers will discuss the long-term effects of a parent's job loss on child development, from academic development to health outcomes to future earnings.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Economic Policy Institute

1333 H St., NW, Washington, DC 20005

Refreshments will be served.

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Agenda

Keynote Speaker

Peter Edelman is the Faculty Director, Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy at the Georgetown University Law Center. His distinguished career includes service in the federal judicial, legislative and executive branches. He is recognized as one of our foremost authorities on poverty, constitutional law, and issues about children and youth.

Panelists

Rucker Johnson, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances, including low-wage labor markets, the societal consequences of incarceration, and the socioeconomic determinants of health disparities over the life course.

Ariel Kalil, PhD, is a professor in the Harris School and director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. She is a developmental psychologist who studies how economic conditions affect child and family functioning.

Ann Huff Stevens, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis. Her past research has included study on the impact of long-term unemployment in the US and how job displacement affects the well-being of workers' children.

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Heidi Shierholz, PhD, EPI Labor Economist, will moderate the forum.

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About this Series

"Recently, June 2009 was declared the official end of the Great Recession, yet workers are hurting now more than ever. Unemployment is currently at 9.6%, with forecasters predicting an unemployment rate of over 8% through 2012. Of unemployed workers today, over 40% have been unemployed for longer than six months, and roughly 30% have been unemployed for longer than a year. To the American worker, this recession is far from over, and the scarring effects of such crippling unemployment have far-reaching consequences. The first forum, on November 5, 2010 examined the health outcomes induced by job displacement.

Video of both forums as well as supplementary material will be available at www.epi.org.