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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.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the United States led the world in the share of the population that completed a college degree; by 2008 that lead had essentially vanished.
The Hamilton Project hosted a forum focused on the economics of immigration. A panel of economic experts helped distinguish economic reality from myth in the current debate — with particular regard to the impact of immigration on the wages of middle-class and lower-income workers, the living standards of Americans, and the demand for, and availability of, visas for highly skilled workers.
America is issuing a declining number of visas for high-skill workers.
The United States experienced two waves of immigration over the last century. The first peaked in 1910, while the second stemmed from immigration reform in 1965 and continues today.
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Melody Barnes' remarks at the Crossing Borders: From Myth to Sound Immigration Policy event with introduction by Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Roger Altman.
Panel 2 audio from the Crossing Borders: From Myth to Sound Immigration Policy event.
Immigrants and the U.S.-born have similar fiscal footprints, paying more in taxes than they consume in services over their lifetime.
Panel 1 audio from the Crossing Borders: From Myth to Sound Immigration Policy event.
Immigration may have a modest positive effect on the average wage of U.S.-born workers.
Educational attainment of foreign-born workers in the American workforce varies widely.
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Melody Barnes on common sense and immigration reform at the Crossing Borders: From Myth to Sound Immigration Policy Hamilton Project event.
Pulbic Strategies Vice Chairman Mark McKinnon moderates panel discussion entitled, "Immigration Policy: Impacts on Workers, Employers, and America’s Future" at the Crossing Borders: From Myth to Sound Immigration Policy Hamilton Project event.
Council on Foreign Relations Co-Chair and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin opens the Hamilton Project event Crossing Borders: From Myth to Sound Immigration Policy. Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone moderates panel discussion on the economic evidence on immigration.
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.
Then-Vice President and Director of Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution Lael Brainard asks if the growth of China and India are generalizable at the Economic Growth Strategies for Developing Countries in an Era of Global Uncertainty Hamilton Project and Commission on Growth & Development event.
Council on Foreign Relations Co-Chair and Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin on the necessity to change the infrastructure of the global economy at the Economic Growth Strategies for Developing Countries in an Era of Global Uncertainty Hamilton Project and Commission on Growth & Development event.
Together with the Commission on Growth & Development Commission, the Hamilton Project hosted a policy roundtable on the role of economic growth in reducing poverty in developing nations. A panel of experts discussed policies to help developing nations move forward in this era of global uncertainty.
Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University Lawrence Summers explains the two basic views to consider when examining the growth of emerging nations in a global economy at the Economic Growth Strategies for Developing Countries in an Era of Global Uncertainty Hamilton Project and Commission on Growth & Development event.
Economic Growth Strategies for Developing Countries in an Era of Global Uncertainty full event audio
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