VIDEO
Michael Green and Martha Raddatz, June 30, 2008
The rise of China has created a number of geopolitical and diplomatic challenges. CSIS senior advisor Michael Green tells Martha Raddatz of ABC News that it's likely that our next president will work diligently to maintain good relations with China.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alan Berube and Chris Webber, June 2008, The Brookings Institution
The United Kingdom has moved aggressively at the national level over the past decade to strengthen the performance of its major cities and urban areas. In light of their success, Alan Berube and Chris Webber outline several lessons for American efforts to create a smarter metropolitan policy that will bolster U.S. economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability. Read More
AUDIO
June 12, 2008
This session explored two federal policy proposals that address America’s innovation challenge. Each proposal harnesses the power of the private sector, state and local governments, and metropolitan level institutions. Both are designed to address the innovation needs of all U.S. metropolitan areas, including those with economies based on manufacturing and “low tech” services as well as high technology regions.
AUDIO
June 12, 2008
This panel discussed proposed federal policy reforms designed to: foster greater innovation and entrepreneurship in the provision of elementary and secondary education; stimulate and support community compacts that provide high school graduates with financial guarantees for higher education; and build a stronger platform for post-secondary student success, especially in the urban community colleges that serve much of the nation’s diverse future workforce.
AUDIO
June 12, 2008
Bruce Katz, vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, unveiled a new framework for improving the federal partnership with states and metropolitan areas—a true Blueprint for American Prosperity—to better leverage the great assets of our metropolitan areas.
AUDIO
June 12, 2008
This session explored a new plan to overhaul U.S. transportation policy to meet the needs of the 21st century economy. This included a discussion of the key economic, environmental challenges facing metro areas, the flaws in the current federal policy response and recommendations for a new, unified, and competitive vision for federal transportation policy.
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Washington, DC
Brookings's Metropolitan Policy Program hosted a national Summit for American Prosperity, which launched the next phase of the Blueprint for American Prosperity: Unleashing the Potential of a Metropolitan Nation, an ambitious, multi-year initiative to build long-term U.S. prosperity by reinvigorating the federal role in promoting the health and vitality of America's metropolitan areas. Read More
VIDEO
Bruce Katz, Amy Liu, The Honorable. Edward G. Rendell and The Honorable Greg Nickels, June 11, 2008
The Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution recently launched an ambitious, multi-year initiative to build long-term U.S. prosperity by reinvigorating the federal role in promoting the health and vitality of America's urban clusters. Metropolitan Policy Director Bruce Katz assembled a number of leading voices on the issue at a Washington, D.C. summit to discuss the findings of the critical study.
PAST EVENT
Monday, June 09, 2008
8:15 AM to 6:00 PM
Washington, DC
On June 9, 2008, Brookings convened more than 70 stakeholders for a conference on “Climate Change, Trade and Competitiveness.” The conference was led by Lael Brainard and focused on how climate change presents a new set of challenges for the world trading system and potential strategies to mitigate future conflicts. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard, May 22, 2008, Senate Committee on Finance
In testimony to the Senate Finance Committee, Lael Brainard discussed America’s response to globalization through the lens of trade policies and examines how provisions of the Trade Enforcement Act of 2007 can help America compete more fairly in the growing global marketplace that requires clearly enforced rules. Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, May 15, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Washington, DC
Brookings President Strobe Talbott, author of The Great Experiment, and CUSE Director Daniel Benjamin joined journalist Fareed Zakaria for a conversation about his new book, The Post-American World. This far-reaching discussion reviewed the choices the United States will face as world political and economic power shifts to emerging global powerhouses, such as China and India. Read More
VIDEO
Strobe Talbott and Fareed Zakaria, May 15, 2008
Brookings President Strobe Talbott, author of The Great Experiment, and CUSE Director Daniel Benjamin joined journalist Fareed Zakaria for a conversation about his new book, The Post-American World. This far-reaching discussion reviewed the choices the United States will face as world political and economic power shifts to emerging global powerhouses, such as China and India.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Atkinson and Howard Wial, April 22, 2008, The Brookings Institution
To respond to America’s slipping leadership in commercial innovation the federal government should establish a National Innovation Foundation (NIF)—a nimble, lean, and collaborative entity devoted to supporting firms and other organizations in their innovative activities. By realigning and augmenting the nation’s diffuse present efforts the new entity would help create better jobs in America, not just for highly educated “knowledge workers” but for high school graduates in manufacturing and “low-tech services.” Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz, Amy Liu and Steve Wray, April 14, 2008, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Bruce Katz and his colleagues in a recent opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer urge the federal government to organize their current fragmented investments in transportation and innovation and targeting them where they will provide the greatest return, metropolitan America. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz and Amy Liu, March 31, 2008, The Brookings Institution
In Pennsylvania, the next major presidential primary state, concerns about the economy loom large. A true federal economic agenda for the Commonwealth must empower state and local innovators to leverage the core assets of the nation's economy--innovation, infrastructure, human capital and quality places--where those assets are located: Pennsylvania’s many small and large metropolitan areas. Read More