Jobs, Investment, and Rebuilding America: Session 1
Channel: New America
Date: 14/11/2013

Jobs, Investment, and Rebuilding America
An Economic and National Security Agenda

Session 1: A Jobs-Investment-Security Agenda

While Congress fiddles, America burns. Jobs remain scarce, foreclosures rampant, mortgages under water, pensions fragile, wages too low. Our infrastructure remains in decay. And we are still not meeting the economic or national security challenges that we have inherited from a decade of frustrating global failures. 

On Tuesday, November 12, Economists for Peace and Security and the Economic Growth Program of the New America Foundation present a symposium on jobs, investment, and security - and why they should trump today's disastrous preoccupations with budget balance, spending cuts, sequestration, and the debt ceiling.
 
The symposium's keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jason Furman, Chair, Council of Economic Advisers. The conversation will also feature panel discussions with many of America's most distinguished policy economists, journalists, and security specialists.

Chair
Michael Lind
Policy Director, Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation

Economic Performance in Perspective
Allen Sinai
Chief Economist and Strategist, Decision Economics

The State of the Middle Class Now
Michael Tomasky
Special Correspondent, The Daily Beast

Jobs and Investment
Sherle R. Schwenninger
Director, Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation
 
Raising the Minimum Wage
Ron Unz
Publisher, The American Conservative
 
Comments by Greg Ip 
US Economics Editor, The Economist (invited)

http://www.newamerica.net/events/2013/jobs_investment_and_rebuilding_america