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The original documents are located in Box 53, folder "1975/11/22 - Robert Goldwin
Seminar on Jobs and Unemployment" of the James M. Cannon Files at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 53 of the James M. Cannon Papers at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 19, 1975
LUNCHEON-SEMINAR
Saturday, November 22, 1975
11:15amto 1:00 p.m. (lunch at 12:00)
The Solarium
FROM:
Robert A. Goldwin
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I. PURPOSE
A discussion of jobs and unemployment viewed from the
social and economic perspectives, with two economists
(one conservative and one liberal), three social
scientists (of differing backgrounds and disciplines),
and several members of the Administration.
II. BACKGROUND, PARTICIPANTS AND PRESS PLAN
A. Background: The five invited outside guests are all
studying the problem of jobs and unemployment in new
and valuable ways. Feldstein and Perry consider such
economic aspects as whether unemployment insurance adds
to unemployment and whether anything corrective can be
done. Glazer, Sviridoff, and Hamilton consider attitudes
of persons at the low end of the economic and social scale
to see whether those attitudes contribute to unemployment
and, if so, whether anything can be done to improve
attitudes toward work and job-seeking.
B. Participants:
1. Secretary F. David Mathews
2. Richard Cheney
3. James Cannon
4. James Lynn
5. Alan Greenspan
6. Robert Goldwin
7. Martin Feldstein,* Professor of Economics,
Harvard University
Paye 2
8. George L. Perry, * Economist and Senior Fellow,
The Brookings Institution
9. Nathan Glazer, * Professor of Education and
Social Structure, Harvard University
10. Charles Hamilton, * Professor of Government,
Columbia University (on leave this year as
Director of the Metropolitan Applied Research
Center, Inc., of New York)
11. Mitchell Sviridoff, * Vice President, Division of
National Affairs, The Ford Foundation
*Biographical information attached
C. Press Plan: Meeting to be announced. White House
Photographer only.
III. TALKING POINTS
1. This is the sixth small gathering put together by
Bob Goldwin as part of my effort to encourage a steady
flow of fresh thinking from outside the White House. I
appreciate your willingness to give up a Saturday morning
to share your thoughts with me.
2. I understand that Martin Feldstein and George Perry
disagree on the significance of unemployment insurance
as a factor in unemployment, so perhaps we ought to
start on that question.
3. I am also interested in analysis of the unemployment
figures, what they reveal and what they conceal. Who
gets unemployment benefits? Who pays? What is the extent
of suffering? And similar questions.
4. I suppose this should lead us quite naturally to the
social aspects, who the enemployed are at the lowest end,
who might not even be getting unemployment benefits,
and what might be done in a practical way to help them
find jobs.
5. My concern is that any way one regards it, unemployment
is too high, and even when we get it down to 5 per cent
it will be too high. We can't devise a complete program
today, but we can get a better understanding of what the
true unemployment problem is.
MARTIN FELDSTEIN: Dr. Feldstein is Professor of Economics
at Harvard University. He received his doctorate from the
University of Oxford in 1967 and has taught at Harvard since
then. He specializes in social security and tax matters.
Among his numerous publications are a 1972 report to the
Joint Economic Committee on "Lowering the Permanent Rate of
Unemployment," and a 1975 article for the Harvard Business
Review entitled "Unemployment Insurance: Time for Reform.
GEORGE L. PERRY: Dr. Perry is a Senior Fellow, The Brookings
Institution, and is co-editor of Brookings Papers on Economic
Activity. He specializes in inflation and labor market
theory, economic policy and analysis of business conditions.
He was Senior Economist, President's Council of Economic
Advisers, 1961-63 and Professor of Economics, University of
Minnesota, 1963-69. He received his Ph.D. in economics from
MIT in 1961. Dr. Perry is the author of Unemployment, Money
Wage Rates and Inflation and numerous professional articles.
He is a director of the State Farm Mutual Automobile Association.
NATHAN GLAZER: Professor Glazer is Professor of Education
and Social Structure, Harvard. His research has been wide-
ranging in problems of society and education. He received
his Ph. D. degree from Columbia, and taught at the University
of California at Berkeley, Bennington College, and Smith
College. He has been a close associate of Pat Moynihan's
and is the author or co-auther of numerous books and articles,
including (with Moynihan) Beyond the Melting Tot 1963, and
Ethnicity, 1975.
CHARLES V. HAMILTON: Professor Hamilton is the Walter S.
Sayre Professor of Government, Columbia University, on leave
of absence this year as a Guggenheim Fellow and as President
of the Metropolitan Applied Research Center in New York
City. He has a law degree and doctorate in political science
from the University of Chicago. His many publications
include a book on Black Power with Stokeley Carmichael as
co-author. Professor Hamilton was Vice President of the
American Political Science Association in 1972-73. He is
also on the Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund.
MITCHELL SVIRIDOFF: Mr. Sviridoff is Vice President, Division
of National Affairs, The Ford Foundation. He was Administrator
of the Human Resources Administration in New York City from
1966-67. He has had extensive experience in trade union
affairs as Director of the Connecticut United Auto Workers
Union and President of the AFL-CIO in Connecticut from 1947-
61. He was also President of the New Haven Board of Education
from 1955-62, and he is currently a trustee of Wesleyan
University.
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