Featured Event Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis: A Hamilton Project Policy Discussion Friday, March 14, 2008Falk Auditorium, The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
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With house prices down, many Americans now owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth – a problem referred to as “negative equity.” In addition, interest rate resets on select subprime and traditional loans will result in even higher mortgage payments for many families already struggling to make ends meet. The results of these conditions are already apparent, with foreclosures in January 2008 up 57 percent from the year before. On Friday, March 14, The Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted a discussion on proposed policy responses to the mortgage-foreclosure problem.
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Past Events
- Economic Growth Strategies for Developing Countries in an Era of Global Uncertainty
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The Hamilton Project at Brookings and the Commission on Growth & Development hosted a discussion on the role economic growth in reducing poverty in developing nations. Special attention was given to the impacts of recent financial market turmoil on global development.
- Easing the Traffic Jam Through Congestion Pricing
April 1, 2008
Brookings’ Hamilton Project and Metropolitan Policy Program released a preliminary draft of a new paper by David Lewis, "America’s Traffic Congestion Problem: Toward a Framework for Nationwide Reform," and hosted a discussion on the merits and potential barriers to congestion pricing as a tool for combating urban gridlock.
- If, When, How? Prospects for Fiscal Stimulus in the U.S. Economy
January 10, 2008
The Hamilton Project released a briefing paper and convened a discussion on what economists know about fiscal stimulus - if it is appropriate, when should it be implemented, and how should it be done.
- Facilitating and Rewarding Work
December 12, 2007
The Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted a two-part forum at the National Press Club on ways to encourage, facilitate and reward work. Besides the release of a new Hamilton Project strategy paper, the forum highlighted four new and forthcoming discussion papers.
- A Climate of Change:
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October 30, 2007
The forum highlighted two new discussion papers on how to best design market mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and included proposals to expand -and possibly restructure-the federal research and development program to better promote the development of new greenhouse gas reducing technologies.
- Recent Financial Market Disruptions: Implications for the Economy and American Families
September 26, 2007
As the nation faces what might be the worse liquidity crisis around housing in 50 years, The Hamilton Project brought together former and current Treasury officials and Wall Street experts for a free-flowing discussion on the risks to the economy and to individual home owners.
- A New Social Contract
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A luncheon discussion hosted by The Hamilton Project and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. (Transcript | Listen)
- Who's Got the Cure?
July 17, 2007
A forum on health-care reform and a release of four alternative policy proposals for achieving the goal of universal health care coverage for all Americans.
- Reforming Taxation in the Global Age
June 12, 2007
A two-part forum and release of a new set of policy proposals that address the challenges of reforming the U.S. tax system.
- Evolving Beyond Traditional Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
May 02, 2007
Discussions featuring recent Hamilton Project papers.
- Health-care Reform Reconsidered: Options for Change
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April 10, 2007
Discussions featuring recent Hamilton Project papers.
- The Role of Education in Promoting Opportunity and Economic Growth
March 29, 2007
Discussions featuring recent Hamilton Project papers.
- Promoting Opportunity and Growth Through Science, Technology, and Innovation
December 5, 2006
A Hamilton Project paper release and discussion.
- Economic Security in a Changing World
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A joint briefing by The Hamilton Project and The New Republic.
- Meeting the Challenge of a Global Economy: Trade, Economic Security, and Effective Government
July 2006
A Hamilton Project paper release and discussion.
- Warm Hearts and Cool Heads: Promoting Growth and Opportunity in a Globalizing Economy
June 2006
Keynote speech at the AIPAC Symposium on Socio-economic disparity.
- Restoring America's Promise of Opportunity, Prosperity and Growth
April 2006
The Hamilton Project launch.
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