The Hamilton Project was launched this year to advance an economic strategy to restore America’s promise of opportunity, prosperity, and growth, and inject new policy options from leading thinkers across the country into the national economic debate. At a forum on September 15, 2006, the Project examined the issue of economic security in a changing world. The forum was cosponsored by The New Republic.
Four panel discussions focused on income instability among American families, economic security and growth, and new proposals for progress. The first panel featured a Hamilton Project discussion of a new strategy paper exploring the link between economic security and economic growth and three discussion papers focusing on reform of the unemployment insurance system and a new proposal for “universal insurance.”
The next three panels further explored the concept of economic security and how it relates to overall economic growth, concluding with a discussion of the effectiveness of education and what the United States can learn from other nations’ strategies for providing economic security.
Agenda
Panel Discussion: Hamilton Project Forum on Economic Security and Economic Growth
Jacob S. Hacker
Yale University
Jeffrey R. Kling
The Brookings Institution
Howard Rosen
Trade Adjustment Assistance Coalition and The Institute for International Economics
Moderator: Peter R. Orszag
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution
Panel Discussion: Can We Increase Economic Security Without Harming Economic Growth?
Jacob S. Hacker
Yale University
Brink Lindsey
Cato Institute
Peter R. Orszag
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution
Moderator: Franklin Foer
The New Republic
Panel Discussion: What Single Policy Change Would Best Promote Broad-Based Economic Growth?
Kevin Hassett
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Robert Kuttner
The American Prospect
Gene B. Sperling
Center for American Progress
Moderator: Glenn H. Hutchins
Silver Lake Partners
Panel Discussion: Economic Security in a Changing World: A Discussion
Roger C. Altman
Evercore Partners
Peter R. Orszag
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution
Robert E. Rubin
Citigroup, Inc.
Laura D’Andrea Tyson
London Business School
Moderator: Jonathan Chait
The New Republic
