PAST EVENT
Friday, January 11, 2008
Charleston, South Carolina
The morning after the South Carolina GOP debate, and just a week before the state’s Republican presidential primary, Brookings, The Post and Courier, South Carolina ETV and the College of Charleston hosted an Opportunity 08 forum featuring national economic policy experts and leading political analysts. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz, Christopher Geissler and Robert Puentes, January 2008, The Brookings Institution
America’s bridges, roads, rails and web of channel communications form the connective tissue that we call infrastructure. When these underpinnings start to crumble, so does the economic competitiveness of the nation. The third Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Competitiveness explored the challenges and opportunities for new infrastructure investment. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Douglas W. Elmendorf and Jason Furman, January 10, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Congressional leaders are now discussing the shape of an economic stimulus bill, while President Bush prepares to unveil his own plan. In a new Hamilton Project paper, Jason Furman and Doug Elmendorf explain why tax or spending changes that are timely, targeted and temporary may be a useful complement to further monetary stimulus because they can boost economic activity more quickly. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Martin Neil Baily, November 16, 2007, Fall CEPS Symposium on Off-Shoring: Opportunity, Threat, or Both?, Princeton University
Deregulation, new technologies and expanded international trade and investment have intensified global competition. Martin Neil Baily explained at a recent symposium that this trend may be a cause for concern, but—given the current U.S. trade surplus in services—it may be a positive thing for employment. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Washington, DC
At this forum, featuring a panel of innovative business, philanthropic, government and university leaders, Brookings launched Blueprint for American Prosperity, a multi-year initiative to promote an economic agenda for the nation that builds on the assets—and centrality—of America’s metropolitan areas. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard, June 06, 2007, Senate Committee on Finance
In testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Lael Brainard discussed trade and globalization. She argued that trade adjustment assistance is the core program for addressing dislocation associated with globalization. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard, June 05, 2007, The Hill
To understand how the new global economy is affecting American workers, look no further than Dave Bevard from Galesburg, Ill. Bevard recently testified to a congressional committee about the devastating effects of losing his job: "[We] believed that if you worked hard, played by the rules and made a quality product, you would be rewarded for your efforts. Instead . . . we were given a pink slip and told that our plant would close and move to Mexico . . . " Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jeffrey R. Kling, March 29, 2007, Testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support
In testimony before the House
Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, Jeff Kling argues that the introduction of wage insurance would increase economic security by reducing unemployment for American workers displaced by offshoring.
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard and Wing Thye Woo, 2007, Opportunity 08
China’s growth in economic and military power has presented both challenges and opportunities to U.S.-China relations and to the global economy. In an Opportunity 08 paper, Lael Brainard and Wing Thye Woo examine five elements to a successful approach to trade with China. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jason E. Bordoff, Peter R. Orszag, Robert E. Rubin and Roger C. Altman, April 2006, A Hamilton Project Strategy Paper
Americans' long-held belief that education and hard work advances each generation's outlook has provided a powerful incentive for industrious activity, spurring the unprecedented economic growth that the United States has enjoyed for more than two centuries. Yet the fundamental principle that all citizens should have an opportunity to succeed is at risk today because the nation is neither paying its way nor investing adequately in its future. The Hamilton Project at Brookings advances innovative policy ideas for improving our nation's economic policy. Read More
UPCOMING EVENT
Thursday, June 12, 2008
8:00 AM to 4:30 PM
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. Read More
UPCOMING EVENT
Thursday, May 15, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2008). Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Karen G. Mills, Elisabeth B. Reynolds and Andrew Reamer, April 22, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Regional industry clusters—geographic concentrations of interconnected firms and supporting organizations—represent a potent source of productivity at a moment of national vulnerability to global economic competition. For that reason, the federal government should establish an industry clusters program that stimulates the collaborative interactions of firms and supporting organizations in regional economies to produce more commercial innovation and higherwage employment. Read More
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