What:"Putting Research To Work: Improving Low-Wage Jobs and Public Policies to Support Vulnerable Workers"Who: Leading experts on low-wage jobs and their public policy implicationsWhen:8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 7, 2009Where:School of Social Service Administration, 969 E. 60th St., University of Chicago
The symposium will bring together many of the nation's top social work and social policy scholars and practitioners to discuss the implications of the changing labor market on low-income working families. The symposium is designed to engage participants in a discussion of different avenues for improving low-wage jobs and public policies intended to support vulnerable workers and their families.
The day's sessions will:
- Consider the realities of low-wage jobs under changing labor market conditions;
- Engage in solution-focused discussions about promising public policy and employer-based interventions;
- Identify strategies for translating knowledge into public policy and employer practice;
- Highlight social work's longstanding commitment to addressing work-family issues among disadvantaged populations.
Julia Henly and Susan Lambert, both Association Professors at the School of Social Service Administration, organized the symposium. At 12:30 p.m., Sheldon Danziger of the University of Michigan and Margaret Simms of the Urban Institute will deliver the keynote address, which will focus on the social policy challenges of the Obama administration.
Reporters interested in attending the symposium should contact William Harms, University of Chicago News Office, (773) 702-8356; w-harms@uchicago.edu.For more information on the symposium, visit http://ssacentennial.uchicago.edu/events/.