KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 15, 2016 \u2013 The University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium has brought in a new speaker for this evening\u2019s installment of \u201cInequality and the American Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n
The originally scheduled speaker, Gerry Hudson, secretary treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, is unable to speak tonight because of a last-minute conflict.<\/p>\n
Instead, Mark Levinson, the chief economist for the union, will speak about inequality in the labor force at the free public lecture at 7 p.m. in Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road.<\/p>\n
Levinson earned his doctorate in economics from the New School for Social Research. He previously worked as chief Economist for UNITE HERE and UNITE and as an economist at the United Automobile Workers and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees. His writings on economic policy, the global economy and labor rights have been published in The New York Times,<\/em> The Nation,<\/em> The American Prospect<\/em>, Dissent <\/em>(where he is also book review editor), New Labor Forum<\/em> and Boston Review<\/em>. In 2002-03 Levinson was a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. In 2005-06 he was the co-director of the Economic Policy Institute\u2019s Agenda For Shared Prosperity.<\/p>\n Sponsors<\/p>\n URI Office of the President \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Office of the Provost \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0The Mark and Donna Ross Honors Colloquium Humanities Endowment \u00a0\u2022 The Thomas Silvia and Shannon Chandley Honors Colloquium Endowment \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of Arts & Sciences \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of Pharmacy \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Gender and Women\u2019s Studies Program \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Multicultural Student Services Center \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Theatre Department \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of Engineering \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of the Environment and Life Sciences \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of Health Sciences\u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0URI College of Business Administration \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of Nursing \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Division of Student Affairs \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Department of Communications and Marketing \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Department of Publications and Creative Services \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI ITS Instructional Technology and Media Services \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Feinstein College of Education and Professional Studies \u00a0\u2022 URI Charles T. Schmidt, Jr. Labor Research Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 15, 2016 \u2013 The University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium has brought in a new speaker for this evening\u2019s installment of \u201cInequality and the American Dream.\u201d The originally scheduled speaker, Gerry Hudson, secretary treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, is unable to speak tonight because of a last-minute conflict. Instead, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}