Over at the Tax Policy Center: The View from The Roasterie LXXXII: January 24, 2014
Tax Policy Center: 50 Years in LBJs War on Poverty:
8:30 AM – Breakfast
9:00 AM - Introduction by Sarah Rosen Wartell, President, Urban Institute
9:10 AM -10:40 AM – The Tax Code as a Safety Net
- Rebecca Blank, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and former Acting Secretary of Commerce
- Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office
- Chris Howard, Pamela C. Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy, College of William & Mary
- Elaine Maag, Senior Research Associate, Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute
- David Wessel, Director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution (moderator)
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM – Reducing Poverty through Work Incentives and Community Development
- Ingrid Gould Ellen, Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, NYU ; Co-Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
- Michael Rich, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Emory University
- Brett Theodos, Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute
- Nancy Pindus, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute
- Howard Gleckman, Resident Fellow and TaxVox editor, Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute (moderator)
12:00-1:30 PM – Lunch Speaker - Jason Furman, Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Presentations: Rebecca Blank, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Michael Rich, Brett Theodos
