[URPE] Columbia University Seminar on Full Employment

[Matthew S Winters]

The Columbia University Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity 
(#613)

DATE: Monday 6 March - 7:15 p.m. - Faculty House
  (Optional buffet dinner at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House)

SPEAKER:  Mark Levitan, Community Service Society of New York

TOPIC:  Out of School, Out of Work... Out of Luck?  New York City's
  Disconnected Youth 

The problem of disconnected youth--16 through 24 year olds who are neither at 
school nor in the labor force--is a significant issue in New York City city 
because the city's disconnected rate is relatively high and the price of 
prolonged disconnection is a lifetime of low-earnings and long bouts of 
joblessness.  The first part of the talk will lay out trends in the city over 
time and compare them to trends in the nation at large.  The second part will 
focus on Black male youth and explore some hypotheses as to why their rates of 
employment are so low.  The talk will conclude with a discussion of the policy 
implications.

Mark Levitan, whose Ph.D. in Economics is from the Graduate Faculty of the New 
School for Social Research, has been a Senior Policy Analyst at the Community 
Service Society (CSS) since 1997.  There he has authored several 
reports including: Out of School, Out of Work... Out of Luck? New York City's 
Disconnected Youth; A Crisis of Black Male Employment: Unemployment and 
Joblessness in New York City, 2003; Mothers' Work: Single Mothers' Employment, 
Earnings and Poverty in the Age of Welfare Reform; and More Work, More School, 
More Poverty? The Changing Face of Poor Families in New York City.  

Dr. Levitan who is on the advisory boards of the Fiscal Policy Institute and 
the Center for an Urban Future, chaired the Working Group on New York City's 
Low-Wage Labor Market--which issued a major report entitled Building a Ladder 
to Jobs and Higher Wages-- and is on the adjunct faculty af Cornell's New York 
State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.  He has also worked for 
the Labor Resource Center of Queens College and the New York State Department 
of Economic Development.

To access a copy of the report on which the talk is based, please go to
http://www.cssny.org/pubs/special/2005_01_disconnectedyouth/2005_01_disconne
ctedyouth.pdf

RSVP to Matt Winters (msw22 at columbia.edu) by Friday 3 March.

Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.  Enter via the 
gate on the east side of Broadway at 116TH STREET; go through campus and cross 
AMSTERDAM AVE.  Continue on West 116th past the Law School and turn left 
through the gate, turn right beyond Wein Hall on the right and go down the ramp 
to Faculty House.  Purchase a ticket for dinner ($19) at the ticket window on 
the first floor, and then the dinner buffet is in the DeWitt Clinton Dining 
Room on the fourth floor.

The seminar is at 7:15 p.m. in a room that will be announced in the Faculty 
House lobby.  Please look for a bulletin board posting.

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University Seminar on Full Employment #613

____ I will     ____ I will not attend the meeting on Monday 6 March.
____ I will     ____ I will not join the group for dinner ($19).

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The seminar on Full Employment is chaired by Helen Lachs Ginsburg, 
helenginsburg at yahoo.com, Sheila Collins, sheila.collins3 at verizon.net, and Trudy 
Goldberg, trudygoldberg at msn.com.