Date: February 27-28, 2012
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
The Work & Livable Lives Conference addressed current employment-related challenges and how they limit the ability of US households to lead secure and stable lives, raise children successfully, and contribute to the community.
The keynote speaker was Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class
Co-sponsored with Washington University’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work and Social Capital; Center for New Institutional Social Sciences; Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy; American Culture Studies; and the Office of the Provost.