Full Committee Hearing

Wall Street vs. Workers: How the Financial System Hurts Workers and Widens the Racial Wealth Gap

Date:   Thursday, March 4, 2021 Time:   10:15 AM Location:   Remote

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THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS will meet REMOTELY to conduct a hearing entitled, “Wall Street vs. Workers: How the Financial System Hurts Workers and Widens the Racial Wealth Gap.” The witnesses will be: Ms. Abbye Atkinson, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Law School; Dr. Darrick Hamilton, Founding Director, Institute on Race and Political Economy, The New School; and Professor Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, Brown University.

Pursuant to guidance from the CDC and OAP, Senate office buildings are not open to the public other than official business visitors and credentialed press at this time. Accordingly, in-person visitors cannot be accommodated at this hearing. We encourage the public to utilize the Committee’s livestream of the hearing, available on the website at http://www.banking.senate.gov.

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Member Statements

  1. Chairman Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio)

Witnesses

  1. Ms. Abbye Atkinson
    Assistant Professor
    UC Berkeley Law School
  2. Dr. Darrick Hamilton
    Founding Director
    Institute on Race and Political Economy, The New School
  3. Professor Glenn Loury
    Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics
    Brown University