Paul Krugman To Participate in Today's Jobs Panel

Unemployed or underemployed?

Frustrated by the response from Washington?

The public is invited to a free panel discussion today about the job crisis.

The event will be held at 2 p.m. at Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street.

Panelists include Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner and Woodrow Wilson School Professor of Economics; Larry Hamm, state chair of the People’s Organization for Progress; and Carol Gay, president of the NJ Industrial Union Council.

“I think this is a national crisis and don’t feel Princeton is excluded, even if may not be in dire straits like other cities,” said Myrna Fichtenbaum a volunteer with the Mid-Jersey MoveOn Council who helped organize Sunday’s program.

Attendees will have an opportunity to learn from the panel, ask questions and be offered specific action items, including communications with lawmakers in Washington, Fichtenbaum said.

The event is part of the American Dream Movement’s national campaign to focus the conversation on the number-one problem facing our community and the nation---the jobs crisis.

The movement was inspired by protests in Wisconsin. MoveOn.org, along with the AFL-CIO and dozens of other organizations, have joined the American Dream Movement to fight to ensure that Americans have the opportunity to find a decent job, afford to go to college, and secure a future for our children.