Word: laborer
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Roughly 50 senior black labor leaders, intellectuals and policy experts from Harvard and across the nation will convene beginning today for the African American can Labor Leaders' Economic Summit...
...will be a big a success, I think, if everyone goes away with just one new idea--if we come away thinking [the labor leaders] have ideas and knowledge and can contribute, and they go away thinking that we are not all a bunch of ivory tower characters," said Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman, one of the summit's organizers...
...hope that we will go beyond the extremes and be constructive in ways that we can improve the international economic system to benefit labor as well as other groups," said Rodrik, who has authored the book Has Globalization Gone TooFar...
...Labor leaders have real knowledge tocontribute," Bernard said. "They should be part ofthe discussion on public policy...
...Labor leaders] also recognize thatinstitutions of higher learning like Harvard playan important part in public policy analysis andidea generation. And so the labor leaders see itas an opportunity to bring some of their ideas andinsights and to broaden the discussion of publicpolicy at this institution," she said...