ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Daisy Pitkin has spent more than twenty years as a community and union organizer, working first in support of garment workers around the world, and then for U.S. labor unions organizing industrial laundry workers. Her essays have been awarded the Montana Prize, the DISQUIET Literary Prize, the New Millennium Award, and the Monique Wittig Writer’s Scholarship. She grew up in rural Ohio and received an MFA from the University of Arizona. Pitkin lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she works as an organizer with an offshoot of the union UNITE. Find her at daisypitkin.net.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Pauline Boss, PhD, is emeritus professor at University of Minnesota. She is known worldwide for developing the theory of ambiguous loss and as a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of family stress management. Dr. Boss is the author of Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss in addition to The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Host-Documentarian-Senior Cato Fellow Johan Norberg is available on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 (10am – 12:30pm ET) to discuss his timely new documentary, Corporate Welfare: Where’s the Outrage?

Inspired by the book, Welfare for the Rich: How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires’ Pockets–And What You Can Do About It, host Johan Norberg looks at examples of tax exemptions, subsidies, regulations and bailouts, which leads viewers to the obvious: is this the thorn in the side of local businesses and communities nationwide?

A follow up to 2018’s widely-acclaimed Work & Happiness: The Human Cost of Welfare,

Corporate Welfare: Where’s the Outrage  

rolls out on public TV stations nationwide starting Saturday, August 28, 2021 and is also available for streaming beginning Monday, August 30, 2021.

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