The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work Presents “Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor” by Katherine S. Newman, Ph.D. and Elisabeth Jacobs, Ph.D.

What happens when jobs are plentiful, and workers are hard to come by? The authors discuss positive consequences of tight labor markets along with the downside of overheated economies and offer a call to implement policies that will improve job prospects and life chances of our most vulnerable households.

Sponsored By the Department of History, Department of Music, Department of Political Science, Department of Psychological Sciences, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work, Department of Theatre and Dance, School of Communication and Journalism, World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, and the College of Liberal Arts