February 17, 2006
CEPR made the front page of the Detroit News! “Auto Cuts Slam Blacks” (Feb. 16, 2006) highlighted our recent report, “The Decline in African-American Representation in Unions and Auto Manufacturing, 1979-2004,” and its effect on local auto manufacturing employees. The report, by John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer, coincided with Ford’s announcement of layoffs and has picked up a lot of media coverage. John has appeared on several radio shows, including WGNU in St. Louis and WBAI in New York.
In other news, John Schmitt is guest lecturing at Johns Hopkins University for a class in the Masters Degree in Public Health this afternoon. He will be talking about economic inequality in the United States and the economic and political forces contributing to it.
