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Location: Virtual

The national launch of Workforce Realigned: How New Partnerships Are Advancing Economic Mobility, a book from the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Philadelphia and Social Finance, will be a 90-minute virtual program. The event will explore the emergence of a new generation of cross-sectoral partnerships focused on better outcomes for workers. It will draw on examples from the recently released book (and beyond) and highlight efforts to build a better workforce system through shared accountability, aligned incentives, and a more careful and thoughtful allocation of financial risks across workers, employers, and governments.


Transcript

Agenda

0:00 Introduction

2:05 Welcome, Sarah Miller, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

4:12 Opening Remarks, Raphael Bostic, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

13:17 Video, Worker Voices

16:17 Nicholas Kristof, Columnist, New York Times, The State of Inequality in America

26:32 Tracy Palandjian, Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder, Social Finance, Overview of Workforce Realigned

34:39 Panel Discussion, moderated by Tracy Palandjian.
Panelists: Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, Department of Commerce; Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation; Brian Moynihan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America.

1:26:49 Closing, Patrick Harker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

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