Municipal Bonds & Public Capital Finance
Workshop Description:
LAPTOP RECOMMENDED
In this session, we will cover more advanced topics of public capital budgeting and finance, with a special focus on the primary source of public sector capital funds: municipal bonds. You will learn what bonds are and how they work, who the key players in the municipal bond market are, and how they intersect with the public agencies overseeing the communities where our members live and work. We will cover how to find data on municipal bonds and analyze bond statements. And we will close with a strategy discussion around possibilities for intervention in capital finance decisions for local agencies.
Workshop Leader:
Justin McBride, PhD, is the Program Manager of the UCLA Labor Studies Strategic Research Lab, and a former Campaign Manager for the AFL-CIO’s organizing department. Prior to coming to UCLA, Justin spend 15 years as a union organizer and strategic campaigner with UNITE, SEIU Local 1, and the AFL-CIO. He originally came to Los Angeles to support the CLEAN Carwash Campaign, a multi-organizational initiative dedicated to changing working conditions in the Los Angeles carwash industry and assist carwasheros in forming a union. Under Justin’s leadership, CLEAN eventually signed over 40 collective bargaining agreements with local carwash owners. At UCLA, Justin studied urban public finance and has published several articles on unionization drives, local sectoral bargaining policies, and local government and NGO finances. Justin now works with the UCLA Labor Studies Program and has been one of the co-organizers of the annual UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference from its inception.
