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Friday, November 1, 2013 at 6:30pm to 6:30pm
Red Bank, NJ Red Bank, NJ, Red Bank, New Jersey
Cornell Club of Monmouth/Ocean Counties: Faculty Dinner featuring Professor Adam Seth Levine '03
on
"The Political Consequences of Economic Insecurity"
Join your fellow Cornellians and guests for a dinner and lecture with Adam Seth Levine '03, Assistant Professor in the Department of Government.
Over the past generation the foundation of economic security for many American families has crumbled. The threat of job loss is higher. Family income is more volatile from year-to-year. Health care is more expensive and one of the leading causes of personal bankruptcy. Retirement income is more insecure, as defined-contribution plans such as 401(k)'s have largely replaced defined-benefit pensions. Higher education is also more expensive at the same time that young people are graduating into a tumultuous job market (and this was true even before the Great Recession).
Based on public opinion polls, Americans have certainly taken note. Yet, curiously, there has been very little large-scale political pressure to stem the tide. Why would that be? In this talk Proffesor Levine identifies and discuss several possible reasons.
Bio :
Adam Seth Levine '03 is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell. He received a Bachelor's degree from Cornell in 2003 and then completed a joint Ph.D. in Political Science and M.A. in Applied Economics at the University of Michigan in 2010. He spent one year as a Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University from 2010-2011 and then joined the Cornell faculty in 2011. The work he will be presenting comes from a book manuscript currently under review that is based on his dissertation, which won the 2011 E. E. Schattschneider Prize. This prize -- for the best dissertat
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