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Public Affairs Discussion Group
"The Case for Issue 2: Raising the Ohio Minimum Wage from $5.15
Per Hour, to $6.85 Per Hour"
October 6, 2006
Guilford House, Guest Lounge
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Amy Hanauer
Executive Director of
Policy Matters Ohio
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Dear Colleagues:
On top of the elections for statewide office, this
year’s Ohio election also includes a major policy
question: whether to raise the state minimum wage.
Issue 2 would raise the minimum from $5.15 per hour, to
$6.85 per hour. One of the endorsing organizations is
Policy Matters Ohio, a Cleveland area think tank
supported by many of the major local foundations to
conduct research on economic issues of importance to
low- and moderate-income workers in Ohio. On Friday,
October 6, Amy Hanauer, Executive Director of Policy
Matters Ohio, will join us at the Friday Lunch to
explain the case for Issue 2 and discuss the questions
that can be raised about the proposal. Since she helped
found Policy Matters in January of 2000, the
organization has issued over 100 research reports. (For
reports on the minimum wage see
http://www.policymattersohio.org/room_to_grow_2006.htm).
The public affairs lunch discussion is from 12:30 p.m.
to 1:30 p.m. on every Friday on which classes are held
during Fall and Spring semesters. It will be meeting
during this academic year in the Guilford Lounge, on the
first floor of Guilford House. Guilford House is on
Bellflower, across from the parking lot for the
Cleveland Institute of Art, and just down the street
from the Peter B. Lewis building. It’s the yellow
building with the nice porch.
The public affairs lunch is open to all. Lunch is brown
bag, but beverages are provided courtesy of the Office
of University Communications and cookies are provided
courtesy of generous souls.
Best regards,
Joe White
More About Our Guest
Amy Hanauer is the founding Executive Director of
Policy Matters Ohio, a non-profit, non-partisan policy
research institute dedicated to examining issues that
matter to working families in Ohio. Since the group
started in January of 2000, Policy Matters has produced
more than 100 reports, generated more than 1,000
newspaper stories, and begun to change the economic
debate in Ohio. Amy has a Master's of Public
Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and a BA from Cornell University. She has previously
done research and policy work in Wisconsin, Colorado and
Washington D.C. For Policy Matters, in addition to
running the organization, Amy does research on work,
wages, tax policy, energy policy and other issues.
Fall Semester Schedule
Sept 1: Ken Ledford,
Associate Professor of History and Law, hosts Jon Entin,
Professor of Law and Political Science, to discuss the
first year of the Supreme Court with John Roberts as
Chief Justice.
Sept 8: Leonard Lynn, Professor and Chair of the
Department of Policy and Management at the Weatherhead
School of Management, on what U.S. leadership in
engineering could mean with the rise of India and China.
Sept 15: Mark Naymik, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, on
this year’s statewide elections in Ohio.
Sept 22: Greg Eastwood, Interim President of Case
Western Reserve University, on “The Interim Period:
Tasks for Today and Ideas for the Future.”
Sept 29: Alan Weinstein, Professor and Director, Law and
Public Policy Program, Cleveland-Marshall College of the
Law, "Eminent domain: State Legislative Responses to Kelo vs. New London: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.”
Oct 6: Amy Hanauer, Executive Director, PolicyMatters
Ohio, on raising the minimum wage
Oct 13: Marty Kress, Executive Director of the National
Space Science and Technology Center, University of
Alabama at Huntsville, on Organizing NASA for Space
Exploration. NOTE: Tentative room change to Mather House
100.
Oct 20: Michael Wager, Vice Chair and Chair Elect of the
Port Authority, on its role in local economic
development issues.
Oct 27: Pete Moore, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, on whatever is happening in the Middle East at
the time.
Nov 3: Justin Buchler, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, and Andrew Lucker, Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Political Science: Midterm Election forecast.
Nov 10: Eric J. Topol MD, Professor of Genetics, on
concerns about conflicts of interest in medical
research.
Nov 17: Norman Robbins, Emeritus Professor of
Neurosciences, on class bias in who gets to vote.
Nov 24: THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec 1: Jerome Liebman MD, Emeritus Professor of
Pediatrics, on National Health Insurance
Dec 8: Terry Wolpaw MD, Associate Dean for Curricular
Affairs, School of Medicine, on the new demands on or
expectations of medical education.
Parking: For
those people who seek to make special arrangements about
parking, the contact person now will be Fay Alexander.
Her phone number is 368-4440, and her e-mail is
fabrienne.alexander@case.edu.
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