State Roads to Economic Recovery: Panel 2: Tools for Efficient State Investment
Full audio of Panel 2: "Tools for Efficient State Investment" from the event State Roads to Economic Recovery: Policies, Pavements, and Partnerships.
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Full audio of Panel 2: "Tools for Efficient State Investment" from the event State Roads to Economic Recovery: Policies, Pavements, and Partnerships.
Full audio of Panel 1: "Building the Next Economy in Today’s Fiscal Climate" from the event State Roads to Economic Recovery: Policies, Pavements, and Partnerships.
State and local governments provide most of the funding for critical infrastructure systems, but spending has declined over the last 50 years.
Michael Greenstone discusses looming decisions for state and local budgets at The Hamilton Project and Metropolitan Policy Program event State Roads to Economic Recovery: Policies, Pavements, and Partnerships.
Metropolitan Policy Program Director Bruce Katz on the pressures facing states to rebalance their budgets and transform their economies at the State Roads to Economic Recovery: Policies, Pavements, and Partnerships Hamilton Project and Metropolitan Policy Program event.
McKinsey & Co. Associate Principal Tyler Duvall on difficulties with public-private partnerships at the State Roads to Economic Recovery: Policies, Pavements, and Partnerships Hamilton Project and Metropolitan Policy Program event.
Former Governor Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) on the necessity of government investment at both the federal and state level at the State Roads to Economic Recovery: Policies, Pavements, and Partnerships Hamilton Project and Metropolitan Policy Program event.
Employment gaps created during the 1980-1982 recessions still remain today.
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.
Full audio of Panel One: "Reforming Low-Income Housing Assistance" from the event The Future of Housing and Credit Markets
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.
Then-Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair on the affect of credit distress on banks at The Future of Housing and Credit Markets Hamilton Project event.
Full audio of Panel Three: "The State of Housing and Financial Markets" from the event The Future of Housing and Credit Markets
Full audio of Panel Two: "New Mortgage Ideas" from the event The Future of Housing and Credit Markets
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.
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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.
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