Hearing Tomorrow: Building an Economic Recovery Package

By Betsy Miller Kittredge on 10-23-2008, 01:26 PM in

On Friday, October 24 at 10:00 a.m., the Committee will hold a hearing examining 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.

“Building an Economic Recovery Package: Creating and Preserving Jobs in America”
Scheduled on October 24, 2008 at 10 a.m. in room 2175 Rayburn H.O.B.

Witnesses:

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

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