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Expanding Employment Opportunities: Event Photos

March 11, 2015 Employment & Wages

On March 11, The Hamilton Project hosted a forum at the National Press Club in Washington, DC focusing on how the U.S. economy can be strengthened by expanding labor market opportunities. United States Vice President Joe Biden delivered remarks. The forum included two panel discussions focused on three new Hamilton Project papers proposing ways to strengthen labor market opportunities for all workers. The first panel discussed a new proposal by Morris Kleiner of the University of Minnesota, suggesting four major reforms to occupational licensing policies. The second panel discussed two papers, by Adriana Kugler of Georgetown University and Michael Barr of the University of Michigan, that seek to strengthen unemployment insurance and increase the rates of minority entrepreneurship.