Not Clearly Pro or Con
to the question "Should the Big Three car manufacturers be bailed out by the US government?"
Reasoning:
"There was a joke about this when they were talking about bailing out the banks...This is Goldman Sachs socialism, we basically take the risk on the public's shoulders without getting any say over what happens at the top. And I think that we really need to turn that around. I mean, if we're going to take a stake in these companies we need to take effective control of them and I think that means really pushing the factories in the midwest to be doing a very, very different set of things... but that's not going to happen if we leave the decisions in the hands of the people who got us into this mess."
"Mark Brenner Tackles the Auto Industry Bailout," 620 AM KPOJ interview, Nov. 13, 2008
Experts
Individuals with JDs, PhDs, other relevant advanced degrees, CEO's of major car manufacturing companies, and government officials with significant involvement in, or related to, automotive, business, and bankruptcy issues. [Note: Experts definition varies by site]
Involvement and Affiliations:
Director, Labor Notes, 2005-present
Former Faculty Member, Murphy Institute, City University of New York (CUNY)
Founding Member, Coalition of Allied Student Employees, University of California at Riverside
Former Researcher, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Former Member, Massachusetts Teachers Association, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Former Staff Economist, Real Cost of Prisons Project
Former Consultant, United Nations Development Program
Former Consultant, International Labor Organization
Fulbright Scholar, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, 1988
Education:
PhD, Economics, University of California at Riverside, 2000
MA, International Development, American University
Cowritten with Jane Slaughter, "End of the Road: If the Auto Industry Is Dead What Does That Mean for Workers?" Labor Notes, Nov. 20, 2008
Cowritten with Robert Pollin, Jeannette Wicks-lim, and Stephanie Luce, A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States, 2008
"Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!: Using Meditation to Teach Clinical Practice," paper presented at the 2007 Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, San Francisco, CA
