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<p class="gmail-Body" style="line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Tonight’s Shifting
Landscapes program:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Body" style="line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif;color:black;border:medium none"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">A
Mixed Economy, </span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">presented by Jeff Madrick.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-Body" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">In tonight’s Shifting
Landscapes program the author of <i>Invisible
Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty</i> and a former New York Times
economic journalist, Jeff Madrick will examine issues of childhood poverty
including its conditions, causes and costs.<span>
</span>He’ll discuss how he thinks the nation can eradicate it and why it
should.<span> </span>According to Columbia
University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy, the monthly child poverty
rate increased from 12.1% in December 2021 to 17% in January 2022, the highest
rate since the end of 2020.<span> </span>The 41%
increase means 3.7 million <b>more</b>
children are living in poverty. The recent increase is due to the expiration of
the monthly Child Tax Credit payments. And 11.8% of households with children
did not get enough to eat in October 2021, according to the Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Body" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">From the start of the
pandemic to the inequities observed from the murder of George Floyd to the
revelations about housing, healthcare, employment, and supply chain concerns,
multiple economic topics have long been “hiding in plain view.” Shifting
Landscapes considers three of these topics.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Body" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">In these times of
both tremendous upheaval and opportunity for transformation, Shifting
Landscapes hopes exploring economic theories, past merits of a mixed economy,
and how we might proceed in the future will help each of us consider how we
might build an even more successful nation in the decade ahead.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Body" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On April 11,
political scientist Amy Lerman will explore how “good enough for government”
moved from being a statement of excellence to disparagement. In the third and
final session on April 18, political scientist Paul Pierson will </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:rgb(10,10,10);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">trace the economic and political history of the
United States over the last century. He’ll show how a viable mixed
economy—where both government and business each have their own roles while also
working collaboratively—has long been the dominant force of America</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif;color:rgb(10,10,10);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:rgb(10,10,10);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="IT">s prosperity.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Body" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><span> </span>Economics is the sixth and final topic in the
Shifting Landscapes series.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Body" style="text-indent:0.5in;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif;color:black;border:medium none"><span class="gmail-None"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Events are free, live or by
Zoom. Tickets are not necessary, but registration is helpful. To register:
mcdl.pub/sl-register. To simply join the Zoom presentation, go to <a href="http://mcdl.pub/SL-zoom" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://mcdl.pub/SL-zoom</a>. The link will be
live about 6:45 pm this evening. A recording will be available later this week
and a link will be sent to those that have registered.<span></span></span></p>
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been funded by grants from Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and
Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.</span></span><span></span></p>
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