Sat. Sept. 29, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

OUTLAW ECONOMICS WORKSHOPS UMKC Student Union

Max Skidmore: Is Social Security Too Expensive? Room 302
Max J. Skidmore is University of Missouri Curators Professor of Political Science and Thomas Jefferson Fellow. He teaches at UMKC. Skidmore has been Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer to India and Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong. He is a prolific author whose recent work has dealt with the politics of Social Security, Medicare, and U.S. health care. He is the editor-in-chief of Poverty and Public Policy: A Global Journal of Social Security, Income, Aid, and Welfare.

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John Henry: What Does a Job Mean? Room 402

John Henry is the author of John Bates Clark and The Making of Neoclassical Economics. Most of his teaching career was spent at California State University where he won the teaching and service awards and presented the annual Livingston Lecture, considered to be the highest faculty honor at that institution. He also taught at Staffordshire University, England, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. He is a visiting professor at UMKC.

Kelly Pinkham: Subverting the Great American Experiment Room 419

Kelly Pinkham is Asst. Dir. of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Research Assoc. in the Dept. of Economics at UMKC. Hes presented research findings to the US Congress, state legislatures and at conferences. The founding and on-going development of our countrys governmental and economic systems has been called the American Experiment. Kelly will show how our heritage is profoundly threatened by the insidious power of todays oligarchic economic elites.

Doug Bowles: The Libertarian Fallacy Room 302

Doug Bowles is the assistant director of the Center for Economic Information at UMKC.

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Mitch Green: The Debt Debacle Room 419

Mitch Green is a Ph.D. student in the Economics Department at UMKC. He is a frequent contributor to the widely respected New Economic Perspectives blog.

Fadhel Kaboub: Government Can Create Jobs Room 402

Fadhel Kaboub is an assistant professor at Denison University in Ohio and research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, and the International Economic Policy Institute. He is also a regular contributor to the social justice column published by Street Speech, a newspaper of the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless. He teaches classes on macroeconomics and monetary theory.

Noon-1 p.m. LUNCHMusical EntertainmentVictor & Penny

June Carbone: What Really Happened to the Family? Room 302
June Carbone is the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at UMKC. She is the author of From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law, the third and fourth editions of Family Law with Leslie Harris and Lee Teitelbaum and Red Families v. Blue Families with Naomi Cahn.

John Henry: Putting America Back to Work: Lessons from the WPA Room 402

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John Henry is the author of John Bates Clark and The Making of Neoclassical Economics. Most of his teaching career was spent at California State University where he won the

teaching and service awards and presented the annual Livingston Lecture, considered to be the highest faculty honor at that institution. He also taught at Staffordshire University, England, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. He is a visiting professor at UMKC.

Mary Lindsay: Democracy for Sale: The Corrupting Influence of Citizens United Room 419

Mary Lindsay is the spokesperson for the Kansas City affiliate of Move to Amend, a national, nonpartisan coalition of organizations committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to people, not corporate interests. She believes the Supreme Courts disastrous Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision demands a herculean response.

Pat Hayes: The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class Room 302

Pat Hayes is an award-winning writer, editor, and autoworker. A member of UAW Local 249 at the Ford Motor Kansas City Assembly Plant, he edits the UAW publications First Local News and the Region 5 Report. He has a masters degree from UMKCs Professional Writing Program.

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Jeremy Al-Haj and Mike Enriquez: Defeating Racism and Fighting for Economic Equality Room 419

Jeremy Al-Haj and Mike Enriquez are veterans of the Occupy Movement in Kansas City. Leaders of KC99, they are currently organizing to raise the minimum wage. Gwendolyn Grant is president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City. She is a strong advocate for social and economic opportunity for African Americans and other minorities. Grant is the first woman leader in the organizations 92-year history..

Gwendolyn Grant: Last Hired, First Fired: Jobs and the African American Community Room 402