Michael Fabricant is a faculty member at Hunter College and First Vice President of the 25,000 member faculty staff union of the City University of New York, the PSC. He has also served as the Treasurer of the National Coalition of the Homeless and President of the Elizabeth Coalition for the Homeless. With Steve Brier he has recently completed the book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Higher Education. He is the author of nine other books and numerous articles on the reassembly of the welfare state, degradation of public goods and organizing campaigns to both resist and reverse present trends of public disinvestment.
