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Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute free webinar on Friday August 23, 2019

August 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

Please join us for a free webinar “Building a Better Understanding of Texas Low-Income Communities and Energy” hosted by the Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI) on Friday, August 23rd at 11am CST. RMC’s Dr. Heath Prince is one of the four featured speakers, and the webinar focuses on the results the Texas Low-Income Community Profile Series first installment, The Texas Overview (details below). Heath’s Policy Research Project class at the LBJ School of Public Affairs contributed to the research for TEPRI’s project. You can register here.

Details:
Understanding dynamics at the intersection of poverty and energy affordability is critical to designing strategies to effectively develop lasting energy solutions for low-income communities. In this webinar, we will discuss the interplay between energy poverty and economic hardship, demographic traits, quality of life, energy behaviors, housing type, and household composition. Our speakers will present the results of the Texas Low-Income Community Profile Series first installment, The Texas Overview. The objective of this series is for data and insights to be utilized by members and stakeholders to increase effectiveness of low-income energy programs and reduce barriers to outreach and education.

Key discussion items:

Owner-occupied households are a meaningful energy poverty reduction target
Low-income customers are engaged with energy, just not with programs
Low-income Texans make difficult trade-offs to balance the disproportionate amount that they spend on energy
Energy burden is a useful metric, but not a sufficient signal of energy poverty

Featured Speakers:
John Hall, Director of the Texas Energy Program at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF); Dana Harmon, Executive Director of TEPRI; Jacqui Moss, Research Fellow at TEPRI and the lead author on the Texas Overview Report; and Heath Prince, Director and Research Scientist at RMC.

To view the report being discussed during the webinar, go here. You can also view the PRP class report here.

Investing in America’s Workforce Free Webinar on Thursday July 25, 2019

July 22, 2019 Leave a Comment

Please join us for a free webinar Investing in America’s Workforce: Investing in Systems for Employment Opportunity on July 25, 2019. The one-hour event is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and begins at 3pm EST. Register here today!

Details:
Many workforce development programs and policies have made strides in improving economic opportunities for workers and their employers. However, these initiatives are often small, local in scope and have limited ability to scale to meet the needs in the broader labor force. This webinar will discuss several innovations and frameworks that can provide insight into how to build on these successes through innovations in financing mechanisms, data use, and information processes. In this webinar, two authors will discuss highlights from their contributions to Volume 3 of Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers. The goal of this publication is to reframe workforce development efforts as investments that provide returns to workers, businesses, and communities as a whole.

Presenters include:

Miguel Palacios, from University of Calgary, will discuss obstacles and opportunities for financing human capital development based on his chapter “Financing Human Capital through Income-Contingent Agreements.”
Rachel Zinn, from the City of Baltimore, will draw on her chapter “All Data Big and Small: Using Information to Guide Workforce Development” to explore examples of data being used to improve human capital development policy and practice.
Steve Wandner, from W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, will present examples of how workforce agencies can integrate data into decision-making processes based on his chapter “Research and Evidence-Building Capacity of State Workforce Agencies.”
Heath Prince, from Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, will moderate.

More about the Investing in America’s Workforce Initiative:
Investing in America’s Workforce is a publication of the Federal Reserve System, the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Download a copy of the book today, explore additional related resources, and join the conversation on Twitter at #InvestInWork.

Chris King presents at ILO Centenary Workshop

May 21, 2019 Leave a Comment

Senior Research Scientist Dr. Chris King was invited to present research at the International Labour Organization‘s Centenary Workshop “Debating the Future of Work: Challenges and Prospects” in Sheffield, England on May 28-29, 2019. On the second day of the workshop, he will be joined by Jason Heyes (Centre for Decent Work, University of Sheffield, UK) and Ryuichi Yamakawa (Central Labour Relations Commission and University of Tokyo, Japan) to discuss Governance, Labour Administration, and Social Dialogue. Topics addressed in the presentation include:

Changes in the world have created new challenges for labour adminstration bodies, such as labour inspectorates and public employment services.
How have they responded to these challenges?
How might labour administration be more effective?
What role can social dialogue play in ensuring effective labour governance and inclusive economic growth?

The presentation was made possible with support from the ILO. It has benefited from discussions with colleague Burt Barnow from George Washington University and sources currently or formerly with the US Department of Labor.

L to R: Ludek Rychly (ILO program director), Burt Barnow, Jason Heyes, and Chris King

Ray Marshall interviewed for The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers’ Video History Project

February 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

In 1999, The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers embarked on a video history project to develop a video library dedicated to creating a repository of oral histories of distinguished individuals who played a significant role or who had an opportunity to observe milestone events relating to labor and employment law. All of the full-length video interviews and transcripts are archived at Cornell University’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library.

On November 29, 2018, the College’s producer (Carol Rosenbaum) and crew videotaped an interview with Former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall at the Center. Ana Avendano, Vice President of Labor Engagement for United Way Worldwide, interviewed Secretary Marshall, who spoke animatedly for 4 hours, and never seemed to tire! An excerpt from the interview can be seen below.

Interview topics included:

His childhood in the orphanage
The role of the Labor Secretary
His role in President Carter’s policy-setting
Ensuring OSHA worked as it should
Management attitudes towards safety and health regulations
Programs he developed to assist women and minorities entering the workforce in large numbers for the first time – especially those who wanted to work in male-dominated industries (like coal mining)
Outreach apprenticeships and affirmative action
His efforts to bring African-Americans into construction apprenticeship programs
International matters under Carter
His involvement in international work, including pulling the United States out of the International Labour Organization (because of a disagreement with the Russians)
His work on immigration, including during the Carter administration and with the AFL – CIO 30 years later
The role independent trade unions play in a democracy – and how authoritarian governments are the enemy of labor movements
Strikes during his tenure
Labor unions today
President Trump’s policies

You can view the transcript of the full interview here , and a summary of the transcript can be viewed here. Credit for the video excerpt, transcript, and transcript summary go to The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Investing in America’s Workforce Free Webinar on Thursday July 25, 2019

Chris King presents at ILO Centenary Workshop

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