Featured Event
May 12, 2008, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Reuters/Fredy Amariles
Last month, President Bush submitted the Colombia free-trade agreement to Congress, but leaders in the House of Representatives have delayed a vote on ratification. Brookings hosts Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Kit Bond (R-Mo.) for a discussion of the economic and national security implications of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Read More
Trade,
Latin America
May 12, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Reuters
Energy issues are among the most important strategic challenges facing America and the world. On May 12, the Opportunity 08 project at Brookings hosts a discussion on the big energy questions facing the next president. From ethanol subsidies to trade policy, energy may well dominate policy and political discussions this summer.
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May 13, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Corporation for National
and Community Service,
Office of Public Affairs
Since the launch of AmeriCorps in 1994, more than a half million Americans have served in the program and helped support local nonprofits and communities in activities across a range of issues, including education, poverty alleviation and disaster support. On May 13, the Brookings Institution and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) will host a forum with leading policy and public service experts about the role of AmeriCorps in helping to create future public service leaders.
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May 13, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
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Mexican Indian coffee-picker
collects beans near Tuzamapa.
Juarez earns about $2 per day
for the work.
The Wolfensohn Center for Development will host a discussion with Santiago Levy, nonresident senior fellow and former deputy minister of finance of Mexico. Along with a panel of leading experts, Levy will discuss his new book, which recommends that in order to help bring Mexico’s poor out of poverty the country’s social programs should be improved to increase productivity, workers’ wages, and overall economic growth.
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May 15, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
On May 15, the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings (CUSE) will host Fareed Zakaria for a discussion on his new book The Post-American World (Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2008).
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May 16, 2008,
House Ways and Means Subcommittee Hearing Room, Washington, DC
The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center and the Center on Children and Families at Brookings Institution are cosponsoring a series of three seminars to share the lessons learned to date from research and the experience of over 300 healthy marriage and relationship programs located across the USA serving diverse populations. In this seminar on May 16, researchers, program administrators and program participants will focus on key lessons learned about the economic factors that affect couples' lives.
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May 16, 2008,
Johns Hopkins/SAIS, Washington, DC
How could America's sophisticated financial system go so wrong and cause so much damage? Martin Baily, Douglas Elmendorf and Robert Litan answer that question in a new paper to be released at a May 16 forum. The authors, following opening remarks by FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, will put forward a specific agenda of policy actions to reduce the chance that history repeats itself.
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May 21, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Drawing on social science research from the U.S. and abroad, Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation (Brookings, 2008), explores ways to define, measure and detect fraud, and makes recommendations for reform. On May 21, the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project will host a discussion with the book’s editors, R. Michael Alvarez of Caltech, Thad Hall of the University of Utah and Susan Hyde of Yale University.
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June 11, 2008,
Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Reuters/Gus Ruelas
On June 11 and 12, the Brookings Institution and Google.org will host a conference on electric vehicles, their potential to reduce oil dependence and the role of federal policy in promoting them.
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June 12, 2008,
The Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
On the evening of June 11 and all day on June 12, join us for a National Summit and help us design a new federal agenda that leverages the assets of metropolitan areas—the engines of America’s prosperity. Learn about new federal policy ideas. Meet other local and regional innovators.
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