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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.
Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between Business Roundtable President and former Michigan Governor John Engler; Center for American Progress Chair and Counselor John Podesta; NBER President and CEO James Poterba; and Brookings Senior Fellow Alice Rivlin at The Hamilton Project event "Economic Facts About Taxes: Rates, Revenues and Reform Options."
Hamilton Project Policy Director Adam Looney provides an over of the new document “A Dozen Facts About Tax Reform” at the event "Economic Facts About Taxes: Rates, Revenues and Reform Options."
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.
Former Treasury Secretary and Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Robert E. Rubin welcomes the crowd at the event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages." He then leads a moderated discussion with White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Alan B. Krueger.
Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between Georgetown University Professor of Public Policy Harry J. Holzer, Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership Vice President Rhandi Berth, Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program Executive Director Maureen Conway, and Walla Walla Community College President Steven VanAusdle at the event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages."
Evercore Partners Founder and Chairman Roger C. Altman moderates a discussion with Siemens President and CEO Eric A. Spiegel at the event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages."
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) provides remarks at the event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages."
Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between New Horizons Economic Research President Louis S. Jacobson, Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership Vice President Rhandi Berth, AFL-CIO Legislative and Policy Specialist for Workforce Issues Daniel Marschall, and Walla Walla Community College President Steven VanAusdle at the event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages."
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The Hamilton Project at Brookings held forum and released new policy proposals on training programs geared toward the needs of today’s workforce. In a rapidly- changing global economy, the skills of some workers have become less valuable, while other skills are in short supply. By collaborating with industry partners and drawing on evidence about what works, training programs can better prepare workers for jobs in growing industries. A diverse group of policy leaders, stakeholders and training experts participated in the forum to share a range of perspectives, including White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Alan Krueger, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Siemens President and CEO Eric Spiegel.
It is critical that worker training programs be rigorously evaluated so that scare training resources can be targeted toward the most effective programs.
Evercore Partners Founder and Chairman Roger C. Altman moderates a discussion with Siemens President and CEO Eric A. Spiegel at the event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages."
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) provides remarks at the event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages."
Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between New Horizons Economic Research President Louis S. Jacobson, Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership Vice President Rhandi Berth, AFL-CIO Legislative and Policy Specialist for Workforce Issues Daniel Marschall, and Walla Walla Community College President Steven VanAusdle at the event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages."
Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates a panel discussion between Georgetown University Professor of Public Policy Harry J. Holzer, Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership Vice President Rhandi Berth, Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program Executive Director Maureen Conway, and Walla Walla Community College President Steven VanAusdle at the event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages."
Federal spending on job training programs by the U.S. Department of Labor has gradually fallen since the 1980s, aside from a bump in 2009 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin leads a moderated discussion with White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Alan B. Krueger at The Hamilton Project event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages."
Retraining in technical fields provides higher returns for workers than retraining in non-technical classes.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin welcomes the crowd and presents Harry J. Holzer with the 2011 Hamilton Project Policy Innovation Prize at the event "Training America’s Workforce for the Future: New Policies to Boost Employment and Wages."
Recent research suggests that hardship for dislocated workers extends beyond periods of unemployment. Once reemployed, workers typically earn significantly less than they did prior to job loss.
Over the last 35 years, the opportunity gap for children whose parents are at different ends of the earnings distribution has grown. Children at the 90th percentile of the distribution of family earnings have experienced a 45 percent increase, while children at the 25th percentile have experienced a decline of over 20 percent.
While all states have lost jobs during the Great Recession, these losses have not been equally shared across the nation.
In the past 40 years, as the pace of innovation has slowed, American workers have experienced lower growth rates of productivity and compensation.
Median wages for the American family have increased over the last twenty-five years, but these incresase are largely due to additional hours worked.
Full audio of OIRA Administrator Cass Sunstein's remarks on President Obama’s Regulatory Review Process from the event PhDs, Policies, and Patents: Innovation and America's Future.
Full audio of Panel Three: "A Path Forward — The Future of Innovation in the U.S." from the event PhD's, Policies, and Patents: Innovation and Amerca's Future.
Full audio of Panel Two: Panel 2: "Obstacles and Opportunities for American Science and Innovation" from the event PhD's, Policies, and Patents: Innovation and Amerca's Future.
Full audio of Welcome and Panel 1: "The State of Scientific America" from the event PhDs, Policies, and Patents: Innovation and America's Future.
Despite continued debate over the value of a college education, data shows that higher education has a much higher rate of return than any other investment.
In today’s economy, those young adults with a college degree are more likely to be employed and earn higher wages than their peers with a high school diploma only or less.
Earnings have declined nearly 28 percent for the median American male worker since 1969.
In addition to the 14 million Americans officially counted as unemployed, there are over 11 million American workers who are underutilized, underemployed, or have given up seeking work.
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the employment-to-population ratio remains 6 percentage points lower and income per person is largely unchanged from the beginning of the decade.
College tuition and fees have risen dramatically during the last 30 years for public and private U.S. institutions and are projected to continue increasing.
Employment of men with only high school diplomas has fallen considerably in recent years, especially when compared to employment of men with a college degree.
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's keynote remarks at the Hard Times, Solid Policies to Renew American Communities event.
Panel 2 audio from the Hard Times, Solid Policies to Renew American Communities event.
Panel 1 audio from Hard Times, Solid Policies to Renew American Communities.
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 hardest hit counties in the 1980-1982 recessions differed dramatically from the hardest hit counties in the Great Recession from 2007-2009.
The hardest hit counties during the 1980-1982 recessions experienced sharper per-capita income declines during the recessions, as well as slower growth following the national recovery.
In communities with large numbers of displaced workers, more-educated workers are more likely to move to a new city of country in search of employment than less-educated workers.
Workers ages 16-24 experienced the most drastic drop in employment during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
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.
Over the past three decades, the wages of college graduates — both men and women — have increased significantly more than the wages of less educated workers.
Over the past 30 years, employment has increased in low-skill and high-skill occupations while at the same time stagnating or decreasing in middle-skill occupations.
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.
The Hamilton Project hosted a two-part forum on ways to encourage, facilitate, and reward work. Jason Furman provided an overview of a strategy paper, which suggested a long-term approach to expanding opportunity, along with specific near-term policies to promote work and reduce poverty.
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.
Full audio from the event From Prison to Work: Overcoming Barriers to Reentry
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.
Full audio of Panel Two: "Enhancing the Social Safety Net" from the event Facilitating and Rewarding Work
Full audio of Panel 1: "Making Work Pay" from the event Facilitating and Rewarding Work
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