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1:00pm: Key Features of the 2018 Federal Budget

            Congressional Discretionary Budget Priorities – Lindsay Koshgarian: National Priorities Project

            Increasing Inequality for Families and Students - Josh Hoxie: Institute for Policy Studies

            Impacts on MIT – Prof. Maria T. Zuber: Vice President for Research 

2:00pm:  Impacts on Housing and Healthcare

            Suzanne Curry: Health Care for All

            Prof. Randy Albelda: UMass Boston

            Richard Krushnic: Cambridge Residents Alliance

            PANEL CHAIR: Prof. Ceasar McDowell: MIT Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning

2:45pm  Coffee Break

3:00pm    Education and Research:

            Lisa Guisbond: Citizens for Public Schools

             Prof. Jonathan King: MIT Biology

3:30pm Transit, Energy and Environment

            Fred Salvucci: Former State Secretary of Transportation, MA; MIT Transit Lab; MIT Department of Urban Sutdies and Planning

            Mike Connolly: State Representative, 26th District, Middlesex

            Quinton Zondervan; Cambridge City Councilor

            Phineas Baxandall: Mass Budget and Policy Center

4:15pm Resisting and Responding

            Cole Harrison: The People’s Budget Campaign      

            Savina Martin: Poor Peoples Campaign 

            Rand Wilson: Our Revolution

            Dr. Michael Van Elzakker: Peace Action: Michael is a postdoctoral research fellow in neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital who became interested in peace issues               through his study of PTSD.

5:15 Adjourn.

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