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Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, gives featured remarks on the Obama Administration’s efforts to reform America’s broken immigration system and why that is an economic imperative.
Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Edward Alden moderates a discussion between former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Silver Lake Co-Founder Glenn Hutchins, National Council of La Raza President and CEO Janet Murguía, and UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm on many of the broader issues surrounding today’s immigration reform debate.
Former Treasury Secretary and Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Robert E. Rubin welcomes the crowd at The Hamilton Project event "U.S. Immigration Policy: The Border Between Reform and the Economy."
Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, gives featured remarks on the Obama Administration’s efforts to reform America’s broken immigration system and why that is an economic imperative.
Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Edward Alden moderates a discussion between former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Silver Lake Co-Founder Glenn Hutchins, National Council of La Raza President and CEO Janet Murguía, and UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm on many of the broader issues surrounding today’s immigration reform debate.
UC Davis Economist Giovanni Peri presented a new proposal for a market-based approach to immigration reform, followed by a discussion of the proposal with National Public Radio Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos, 3M Senior Vice President Legal Affairs and General Counsel Marschall Smith and Ocean Mist Farms Director of Human Resources Jorge Suarez, moderated by Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone.
Former Treasury Secretary and Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Robert E. Rubin welcomes the crowd at The Hamilton Project event "U.S. Immigration Policy: The Border Between Reform and the Economy."
On May 15, The Hamilton Project at Brookings held a forum exploring the challenges and opportunities for immigration reform in today’s political and economic climate. Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, gave featured remarks on the Obama Administration’s efforts to reform America’s broken immigration system and why that is an economic imperative.
In the first panel, UC Davis Economist Giovanni Peri presented a new proposal for a market-based approach to immigration reform. A panel of experts representing a range of perspectives discussed details of the proposal. A second panel of thought leaders discussed many of the broader issues surrounding today’s immigration reform debate. Participants included: former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Silver Lake Co-Founder Glenn Hutchins, National Council of La Raza President and CEO Janet Murguía, and UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm.
The Hamilton Project tracks the monthly “job gap,” which is the number of jobs that need to be created in order to return to pre-recession employment levels while still absorbing the workers entering the labor force each month.
Council on Foreign Relations Co-Chair and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin's opening remarks and panel on proposals for improving skills and creating jobs at The Future of American Jobs, Part II Hamilton Project and Center for American Progress event.
On December 3, The Hamilton Project and the Center for American Progress hosted the second of two conferences addressing the long-term challenges of creating quality jobs in the United States, and preparing American workers for the jobs of the future. U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis joined former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta, former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, business leader and philanthropist Penny Pritzker, Nobel Laureate Michael Spence, and other experts in a two-panel discussion on the future of American jobs.
Center for American Progress President and Chief Executive Officer John Podesta moderates a panel discussion on the future of American jobs at The Future of American Jobs, Part II Hamilton Project and Center for American Progress event.
Today's out-of-work Americans are experiencing longer spells of unemployment than in any recent recession. In October 2010, half of all unemployed workers had been unemployed for more than 21 weeks.
On October 13, Governor Jennifer Granholm joined former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin, New York City Deputy Mayor Steve Goldsmith, and other experts in a Hamilton Project forum focused on policy solutions for renewing American communities.The Hamilton Project released a strategy paper and three new proposals that provide a range of options for helping communities and workers recover from recent economic shocks.
Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) gives keynote remarks at the Hard Times, Solid Policies to Renew American Communities Hamilton Project event.
Council on Foreign Relations Co-Chair and Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin moderates discussion on perspectives from the front lines of American communities at the Hard Times, Solid Policies to Renew American Communities Hamilton Project event.
Evercore Partners Founder and Chairman Roger C. Altman gives opening remarks at The Hamilton Project event Hard Times, Solid Policies to Renew American Communities. Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates panel discussion on possible solutions for growth and regeneration.
The fall in employment from the 2007-2009 Great Recession is the most severe fall during a recession since World War II.
Charlie Rose moderates discussion between Lawrence Summers and Mayor Michael Bloomberg at The Hamilton Project and Center for American Progress event The Future of American Jobs. Introductory remarks by Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Roger Altman.
MIT Professor of Economics David Autor presents his paper on the state of the U.S. labor market. Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone and Center for American Progress Senior Economist Heather Boushey join Autor to discuss the paper and further challenges to the labor market at The Hamilton Project and Center for American Project The Future of American Jobs event.
Center for American Progress President and Chief Executive Officer John Podesta and Council on Foreign Relations Co-Chair and Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin give opening remarks at The Future of American Jobs event, co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress and The Hamilton Project.
Reuters Global Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland moderates discussion on economic growth and job creation at The Future of American Jobs Hamilton Project and Center for American Progress event.
The Economist U.S. Economics Editor Greg Ip moderates roundtable discussion on the American Worker at The Hamilton Project and Center for American Progress event, The Future of American Jobs.
The Hamilton Project partnered with the Center for American Progress to host a forum on the country’s employment situation. The event featured a discussion with New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and NEC director Lawrence H. Summers, moderated by PBS host Charlie Rose.
Federal debt as a percentage of GDP continues to grow in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
This figure from the 2010 Hamilton Project strategy paper "From Recession to Recovery to Renewal" illustrates changes in the male and female nonemployment to population ratio between 1945 and 2010.
Between 1975 and 2008, income inequality in the United States has risen, with households in the 95th percentile of income making disproportionate gains.
Three different GDP growth scenarios show potential growth scenarios for the next twenty years.
New York City Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda I. Gibbs on the necessity for practitioners for a new poverty measurement system at the Improving the Measurement of Poverty Hamilton Project event.
American Enterprise Institute scholar Douglas J. Besharov on the benefits of the current poverty measurement system at the Improving the Measurement of Poverty Hamilton Project event.
U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.) gives keynote remarks on the importance prisoner reentry reform at the From Prison to Work: Overcoming Barriers to Reentry Hamilton Project event.
Council on Foreign Relations Co-Chair and Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin says putting former inmates into productive jobs is an important economic issue at the From Prison to Work: Overcoming Barriers to Reentry Hamilton Project Event.
Harvard University Professor Bruce Western offers an overview of his Hamilton Project paper on prison reentry followed by roundtable discussion among experts with on-the-ground work in the field at the From Prison to Work: Overcoming Barriers to Reentry Hamilton Project event.
Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University, on the lessons of the S&L crisis for the housing and credit crisis at The Future of Housing and Credit Markets Hamilton Project event.
Then-Hamilton Project Director Douglas W. Elmendorf on new mortgage ideas to the reduce risk that homeowners will not repay their mortgages at The Future of Housing and Credit Markets Hamilton Project event.
Vice President and Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program Bruce Katz says a disproportionate number of poor Americans are in rental housing and paying over 50 percent of their income in rent at The Future of Housing and Credit Markets Hamilton Project event.
Full audio from Panel One: "How Markets Can Create New Opportunities for Individuals" from the event Missing Markets: Fostering Market-Based Solutions to Major Risks
Full audio of Panel Two: "How Markets Can Help Communties Manage Financial Risk" from the event Missing Markets: Fostering Market-Based Solutions to Major Risks
Council on Foreign Relations Co-Chair and Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin on the uncertainty in credit markets and the need for substantial additional action in the mortgage area at the Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis Hamilton Project event.
NeighborWorks America CEO Kenneth Wade discusses the sub-prime mortgage crisis the disproportional affect it has on people of color at the Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis Hamilton Project event.
The Hamilton Project hosted a conversation on proposed policy responses to the mortgage-foreclosure problem. Many Americans now owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth however which policy provides the most effective remedy to the problem remains unanswered.
Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University Lawrence H. Summers on how serious and prolonged the recession will be at the Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis Hamilton Project event.
Full video from the Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis Hamilton Project event.
The Hamilton Project released a briefing paper and convened a discussion among key economic thinkers on what economists know about fiscal stimulus — if it is appropriate, when should it be implemented, and how it should it be done.
Full audio from the event If, When, How? Prospects for Fiscal Stimulus in the U.S. Economy
Then-Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Rebecca M. Blank on bringing low-skilled men into the workforce and providing additional mental health services for women not currently receiving public assistance at the Facilitating and Rewarding Work Hamilton Project event.
STRIVE Co-Founder Robert Carmona offers a practitioner's perspective on the lack of male involvement in the workforce at the Facilitating and Rewarding Work Hamilton Project event.
The Hamilton Project convened a discussion with experts to help frame the challenges currently facing housing and the financial markets — where we are, what it means for the U.S. economy, possible next steps for recovery, and ways to minimize future problems.
Full audio from the event Recent Financial Market Disruptions: Implications for the Economy and American Families
The Hamilton Project co-sponsored an event with The New Republic featuring four panel discussions focused on income instability among American families, economic security, and growth, and new proposals for progress.
Photos from Restoring America's Promise of Opportunity, Prosperity, and Growth, The Hamilton Project's launch event on April 5, 2006.
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