Friday, October 05, 2018
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
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Friday, October 05, 2018
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
In 2017. nearly two million new jobs were created and the unemployment rate fell to a 17-year low of 4.1 percent. However, those numbers don't tell the whole story - and jobs and job creation remain a leading concern for legislators, corporate leaders, and Americans alike.
As we continue to move through the digital age, the dialogue around jobs...
Sunday, April 09, 2017, 12:50 p.m.
In 2014 an unarmed 18-year-old African-American named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. This was the final straw for black residents, caught in a decades-long struggle with an oppressive police force known...
Saturday, April 08, 2017, 10:35 a.m.
“Si se puede” was the familiar battle cry of the National Farm Workers Association long before President Obama adopted the English version (“yes we can”) for his presidential campaign slogan. Little do most people know that powerful call-to-action came from...
Friday, April 07, 2017, 3:10 p.m.
FilmForum: Requiem for a Running Back
Director Rebecca Carpenter’s father Lew Carpenter had an illustrious ten-year career in the NFL playing for Cleveland and Detroit and winning three NFL Championships with Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers. When he died in 2010, his brain was studied by...
Friday, April 07, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
Trump’s Ohio Win, the New Resistance, and 2018
Donald J. Trump's election capped off a series of defeats for Democrats that began during Barack Obama's presidency. From 2008 to 2016, the Democrats lost 1,000 seats in state legislatures along with dozens of congressional and governors' seats, putting them...
Thursday, April 06, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
Ron Book is an extremely powerful lobbyist from Florida. When he found out his daughter was molested by her nanny, he used his political capital to pass some of the harshest laws against abusers. They’ve actually rendered some former offenders...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the World: Free Speech and Censorship in Turkey
The past decade has seen Turkey veer from the path of a democratizing Muslim nation to authoritarian consolidations of power under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Beginning with the police crackdown on protests over the razing of Gezi Park in 2013...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017, 5:50 p.m.
Headlines can prevent us from seeing the actual lives affected by catastrophe. One such life is a beautiful eight-year-old named Evlin. When ISIS attacked her village of Kobane in Syria, she and her family fled across the border to Turkey....
Tuesday, April 04, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
Embracing Civil, Human, and Women's Rights under a New Administration
During Barack Obama’s presidency, the Department of Justice was aggressive in pursuing the broadest interpretation of civil rights law, with government lawyers addressing cases involving transgender students, juvenile prisoners, gay rights, policing, and criminal justice, among others. President Donald J. Trump’s...
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