The recent and controversial public debates attached raising the federal debt ceiling not only to balancing the budget, but also to cutting spending, especially on entitlement programs, said McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English. "Although we hope to explore the broad implications of the politics of the debt ceiling, we are especially concerned to have panelists address the racial implications of the debt-ceiling debate," Woodson Institute director Deborah McDowell said. alumna who chairs the political science department at the University of Richmond, will join the panel. Robinson and politics professor James Savage.Ĭlarence Lang, associate professor of African-American Studies and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Andrea Simpson, a U.Va.
panelists include Derrick Alridge, a professor in the Curry School of Education's Department of Leadership, Foundations and Policy law professor Mildred R. and elsewhere, is part of the Woodson Institute's occasional series, "Currents of Conversation." The series aims to bring together members of the University and broader community to offer perspectives on topics plucked from the headlines that stimulate sustained public debate. The panel discussion, which will include leading scholars from U.Va. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, part of the College of Arts & Sciences. The event – free and open to the public – is organized by the University of Virginia's Carter G.
These and other questions will be tackled during a panel discussion, "The Politics of the Debt Ceiling Crisis," to be held Sept. SeptemIf there is a cap on eligibility for unemployment benefits, who will feel the impact and its reverberations most acutely? If food stamps are reduced, who will feel the greatest impact? And what about Pell Grants for education? Or health insurance for the children of the poor and the working poor?
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