Full Committee Hearing: "Building an Economic Recovery Package: Creating and Preserving Jobs in America"

Friday, October 24, 2008

This hearing examined strategies – including investments in rebuilding crumbling infrastructure – to create good-paying jobs in order to put the nation’s stalled economy on the road to recovery. More than 2.2 million American workers have lost their jobs in the past 12 months and millions more are still looking for permanent employment.

Chairman Miller's Opening Statement »

Archived Webcast »

Witness Testimony:

Panel 1:

Hon. Charles E. F. Millard
Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Panel 2:

Jared Bernstein
Director of the Living Standards Program
Economic Policy Institute

Ron Blackwell
Chief Economist
AFL-CIO

Christopher Hansen
President and CEO
AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association)

Robert Pollin
Professor of Economics
Founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute
University of  Massachusetts at Amherst

Dana Stevens
Unemployed Worker
Thorofare, New Jersey

William W. Beach
Director
Center for Data Analysis
The Heritage Foundation

Items Submitted for the Record :

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Schedule of Investment Income/Loss For Fiscal and Calendar Years 2006-2008

Alan Blinder »
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Princeton University

Allen Sinai »
Chief Global Economist and President
Decision Economics, Inc.

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