UPCOMING EVENT
Friday, December 05, 2008
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
On December 5, The Hamilton Project will host a policy discussion on the challenges of prisoner reentry featuring remarks by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and a keynote address by U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.). The event will also feature a policy roundtable with a diverse group of experts on the need for a national prisoner reentry strategy. Read More
VIDEO
Jeffrey R. Kling, November 07, 2008
President-elect Obama held his first press conference today, focusing on the economy. Kling commented on Obama’s address saying the nation needs two rounds of stimulus to kick-start the economy—the first to stem recent job losses and help homeowners, and then to focus on longer-term growth.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ron Haskins, September 2008, First Focus
Ron Haskins offers ways policymakers could create an entitlement to housing assistance that would more fairly distribute housing benefits and convert housing into a more effective element in the nation’s work support system. The goal of reform would be to get the most out of the resources now devoted to housing by providing at least some benefit to all eligible families that want a housing subsidy. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jack Keane and Michael E. O'Hanlon, July 06, 2008, The Washington Times
Michael O'Hanlon and Jack Keane assess a major private initiative called Welcome Back Veterans. The program, they write, is designed to complement government efforts to create new jobs for veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
In the context of the recently released Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007 and the Trafficking in Persons Report 2008 by the United States Department of State, the Brookings Doha Center, a Project of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, organized a policy discussion with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Erica Barks-Ruggles, to speak on the subject of human rights in the Gulf. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Washington, DC
On April 8, the American Assembly and the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings held a forum to discuss how the nation’s government, business, civic and community leaders can develop and implement new policies to revitalize older industrial areas. The strategies were based on the findings of the Brookings Institution Press book Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America’s Older Industrial Areas. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard, Spring 2008, Democracy Journal
Despite profound economic changes over recent years, America’s job-transition, or worker adjustment, program remains one of the weakest among advanced economies. Lael Brainard proposes fundamental changes in the nation’s programs in order to provide enhanced training and financial support to help American workers compete. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Harry J. Holzer and Michael Stoll, December 31, 2007, The Brookings Institution
An analysis of workers and jobs in the central cities and lower- and higher-income suburbs of the largest 150 metropolitan areas finds that growing concentrations of residents and jobs in higher-income suburbs indicate that local labor market policy should better maximize access to good jobs and skill-building opportunities for all workers throughout metropolitan regions. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
John Karl Scholz, December 2007, Hamilton Project Discussion Paper
To address a few problems with low-income families, John Karl Scholz proposes a two-part policy designed to increase the return to work. He argues that increasing the return to work for childless low-skilled workers will lower unemployment rates and will improve other social benefits. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Harry J. Holzer, December 2007, Hamilton Project Discussion Paper
Hamilton Project's expert Harry J. Holzer proposes a new federal funding stream to identify, expand, and replicate the most successful state and local initiatives designed to spur the advancement of low wage workers in the United States. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Hans Bos, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian and Heather D. Hill, December 2007, Hamilton Project Discussion Paper
Hans Bos, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian and Heather D. Hill make the case for a national program offering the kind of work supports that were part of the New Hope program, a policy experiment that operated for three years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the mid- to late-1990s. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jeffrey R. Kling, September 19, 2007, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the House Committee on Ways and Means
Jeff Kling testified that more permanent job loss with large wage losses requires the nation to modernize the unemployment system. 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