Webinar, April 29 2021

“A Great American Idea Whose Time Has Come, Again:

 The National Infrastructure Bank”



Pennsylvania Representative Mary Jo Daley, New Jersey Assemblyman Robert Karabinchak, and Public Banking Institute Chair Ellen Brown engage in discussion on how to pay for infrastructure, and why they support the National Infrastructure Bank (NIB). The NIB will pay for all of the nation’s infrastructure. It will build new roads, bridges, high speed rail, broadband, water projects and the rest, just like its predecessors.

Speakers:

* Alphecca Muttardy, Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund, 25 years (ret.), Virginia

* Rep. Mary Jo Daley, Democratic Chair, Committee on Committees, Pennsylvania

* Asm. Robert Karabinchak, Chair, Special Committee on Infrastructure and Natural Resources, New Jersey

* Asm. Felix Ortiz, Assistant Speaker, State Assembly (ret.), New York

* Ellen Brown, JD, Founder and Chair, Public Banking Institute, California

* James Sauber, Chief of Staff, National Association of Letter Carriers, Washington, DC

* Julie Olsen, Democratic Party Executive Committee, Small Business Owner, Alaska

* Moderator: Jack Hanna, former Treasurer and Interim Chairman, Democratic Party, Pennsylvania



Webinar, April 9 2021

“The National Infrastructure Bank 'Moonshot': Hiring and Training a Workforce

for 21^st Century Jobs”

Ohio Representative Lisa Sobecki and Pennsylvania Representative Joe Ciresi were joined by a distinguished panel for a webinar on April 9 entitled “The National Infrastructure Bank 'Moonshot': Hiring and Training a Workforce for 21st Century Jobs”.
 
The webinar focussed on the challenge of assimilating tens of millions of new employees into high-paying jobs in infrastructure projects.
 
Complementing the Biden jobs plan announced March 31, a new National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) will create 25 million new jobs and launch a training program not seen since the Great Depression and the WWII economic mobilization. The NIB will pay Davis-Bacon wages and collaborate with trade unions and other institutions to create a skilled workforce on a par with any other nation. That workforce will be able to immediately handle entry-level positions in construction and repair and be quickly upgraded to work on the most advanced projects including High-Speed Rail, transmission lines, broadband implementation, water desalination, and power projects. Let's shoot for the moon!
 
Please join this provocative and educational webinar.
 
Speakers:

*Rep. Joe Ciresi, Pennsylvania legislature
* Rep. Lisa Sobecki, Ohio legislature
* Rep. Darisha K. Parker, Pennsylvania legislature

* James ”Lou” Spencer, Senior Apprentice Training Expert, Camp Springs, MD
* Bill Leyden, Business Rep., Elevator Constructors Local 52, Apprenticeship Training Expert, VA

* Erika White, President CWA Local 4319; Vice-President NW Ohio AFL- CIO

* Pamela Hacker, Construction Electrician, PA 

* Alphecca Muttardy, Macroeconomist, 25-year Senior Economist, IMF
* Moderator: Robert Lynn, United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters, Local 50 (ret.) OH

Presidents' Day-February 15, 2021

"National Infrastructure Bank: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"

Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt established national banks to confront the crises of their times. This Presidents' Day webinar explores their national banking programs and how President Joe Biden’s administration can stand on their shoulders to create a new national infrastructure bank to revitalize our nation and create 25 million jobs without increasing taxes or the federal debt. 

Speakers:

* Alphecca Muttardy, former Senior Economist IMF

* Jack Hanna, Oregon Democratic Party state central committee; former treasurer and interim chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party  

* Ellen Brown, J.D., Founder and Chair of the Public Banking Institute; author of twelve books, including Web of Debt and The Public Bank Solution; co-host of radio show program on PRN.FM, “It’s Our Money”  

* Carl Holland, South Carolina regional field director of the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign; U.S. Representative Barbara Lee staff member, 2013-15  

* Governor Roy Barnes, Esq., 80th Governor of State of Georgia; Awarded the Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Library for his success while Governor of minimizing the Confederate battle emblem on the Georgia state Flag

* Representative Kyle Mullins, Pennsylvania House of Representatives 112th District

* Representative Lisa Sobecki, Ohio House of Representatives 45th District

* Moderator: Robert Lynn, organizer of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 50, Ohio (ret)

Webinar, January 14, 2021- "The Better Angels of Our Nature"

In the spirit of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt join with elected officials and labor leaders to make the National Infrastructure Bank the basis of a bi-partisan collaboration to unify and rebuild our nation.

On the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank sponsored a webinar urging congress to create a $5 trillion National Infrastructure Bank. This Bank would establish the needed new bi-partisanship and build everything the nation has foregone over the past decades and create 25 million new, high-paying, jobs in the process. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt utilized similar institutions to address comparable crises. State legislatures and city governments across the country are now convening and sending resolutions to congress in support of this policy. It is time for congress, both parties concurring, to do their part and start the reconstruction. 

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” President Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

Moderator---Robert Lynn, Organizer United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 50(ret) Toledo OH

Speakers:

*Jack Hanna, Oregon Democratic Party State Central Committee; former Interim Chairman Pennsylvania Democratic Party   

* Alphecca Muttardy, Macroeconomist, twenty-five years IMF   

* Sen. Louis DiPalma, Rhode Island State Senate   

* Rep. Lisa Sobecki, Ohio State House of Representatives   

* Jason Parker, President Virginia State Building and Construction Trades Council

* Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives 

* Catherine Borgia, Westchester County Board of Legislators, Ossining, NY

* Erika White, President CWA Local 4319 Toledo; Vice-President NW Ohio AFL-CIO

* Councilwoman Janet Diaz, Lancaster City Council, Lancaster, PA

* Peter Taylor, Chair, Political Action Committee and Past President, Central Georgia Labor Council

* Ryan Snow, Chairman California State Legislative Board, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen/IBT   

Webinar, January 7, 2021- " 'Nothing to Fear': What the Biden Administration Must Learn from FDR’s First 100 Days"

Award-winning author Steven Fenberg joins distinguished historian Dr. June Hopkins for a timely webinar comparing the “First Hundred Days” of President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration with the potential of the Biden administration. Accompanying them was senior economist Alphecca Muttardy. The "Nothing to Fear" webinar explores the success of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the role of Harry Hopkins—Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) leader—and the indispensable and overlooked contributions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). The webinar shows how the vital success of the RFC can be adapted today in a new National Infrastructure Bank, which is embodied in HR 6422, “The National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2020.”

Speakers:

*Steven Fenberg, Author, "Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the Common Good" and Emmy award-winning film writer and executive producer, "Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?" 

*Dr. June Hopkins, Professor of History, Emerita, Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus; Author, "Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer" 

*Alphecca Muttardy, Macroeconomist, over two decades at the International Monetary Fund

Moderator: Jack Hanna, Oregon Democratic Party State Central Committee; former Treasurer and Interim Chairman Pennsylvania Democratic Party

Webinar: November 19, 2020- "Build Back Best: The National Infrastructure Bank and

 a U.S. Industrial Recovery"

A distinguished panel of Elected officials, Labor leaders, and Economic experts outline an aggressive program to build our nation's infrastructure and restart our industrial economy.

As spelled out in HR 6422, "The National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2020," this event demonstrates how to create 25 million high paying jobs and pay for it, with no new federal money!

The $4 trillion National Infrastructure Bank will help fix our crumbling roads, bridges, and schools, build new broadband and high-speed railroads, and construct the factories in the United States to supply the projects.

Speakers:

* Sen. Louis DiPalma, Rhode Island 

* Alphecca Muttardy, Macroeconomist

* Kate Schroder, Democratic Candidate for Congress, OH District One

* Bob Lynn, Secretary, Jobs with Justice, UA Local 50 (retd), Toledo

* Dr. Alexander Metcalf, High-Speed Rail Economics Expert; TEMS, Inc., President   

* Assemblyman Robert Karabinchak, New Jersey 

* County Councilwoman Anita Prizio, Allegheny, PA   

* Andy Kunz, President, US High Speed Rail Association 

* Jason Parker, President, Virginia State Building and Construction Trades Council 

* Vance Ayres, Director, Government Affairs, Elevator Constructors (IUEC) 

* Erika White, President CWA Local 4319; Vice-President NW Ohio AFL-CIO 

* Dr. Robert Cesario, Missouri, Phelps Co. Dem Committee 

* Stan Forczek, Infrastructure Consultant, Former Director of Finance, Northeast Corridor, Amtrak Corp.

* Moderator: Jack Hanna, Former Treasurer and Interim Chair, Pennsylvania Democratic Party

Webinar:  October 7, 2020 - H.R. 6422, "The National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2020"

Will Unite the Nation

This webinar addresses H.R. 6422 and partisanship. With $4 Trillion in lending capacity, the Bank has the power to repair and build all our infrastructure needs including, roads, bridges, rail, water, broadband, and more. This is not a partisan issue. The webinar emphasizes the unifying effects this policy will have.

Speakers:

* Steven Fenberg, Author, "Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good,” Writer and Executive Producer of the Emmy Award-winning documentary "Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?"   

* Alphecca Muttardy—Macroeconomist; Economic Policy Director, Coalition for the National Infrastructure Bank

* Stanley Forczek--Infrastructure expert, former executive Amtrak Corporation., former Director of Finance for Amtrak's Northeast Corridor 

* Lisa Hicks-Clayton---Dearborn Hts., Michigan City Council 

* Dale Lehar, retired business executive, Pacific Northwest   

* William Leyden, Business Mgr, Local 52, International Union of Elevator Constructors, Norfolk, VA 

* Jack Hanna---Moderator, former Treasurer and Interim Chairman, Pennsylvania Democratic Party 

Panel 1 - National Infrastructure Bank - Past and Present

Webinar at the Democratic National Convention