Friday, January 15, 2010
8:45 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
This conference was cosponsored by
The Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy
and the Urban Institute
A level of economic distress unknown for generations has prompted a major increase in federal domestic spending and an aggressive federal policy response with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. But what next? Experts will discuss the lessons learned during the recession, the performance of current programs, and the ARRA experience, and offer their views on the next steps to reduce poverty and economic distress for Americans. Panelists -- researchers, senior federal and state officials, and leading policy experts -- will propose and debate concrete policy ideas for the administration and Congress to take up in the coming months.
Panel 1. Weathering Financial Instability and Building Long-term Security
- "The Great Recession, Unemployment Insurance and Poverty," Wayne Vroman, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
- "Asset-Building Strategies in Tough Times: Resiliency Behaviors in Diverse Low-Wealth Families and Communities," Barbara Robles, Senior Policy Research Liaison, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
-John Dorrer, Director, Center for Workforce Research and Information, State of Maine Department of Labor (discussant)
-Derek Hyra, Associate Professor in Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (discussant)
-Margaret Simms, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute (panel chair)
Panel 1 bios
Panel 2: Skills and Jobs
- "Postsecondary Education Is Not Enough," Anthony Carnevale, Director, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
- "Publicly-Funded Jobs: An Essential Strategy for Reducing Poverty and Economic Distress throughout the Business Cycle," Cliff Johnson, Director, Institute for Youth, Education, and Families, National League of Cities (presenter), and Amy Rynell, Director, Social IMPACT Research Center, Heartland Alliance, and Melissa Young, Associate Director, National Transitional Jobs Network, Heartland Alliance (co-authors)
--Gerri Fiala, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor (discussant)
-David Socolow, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (discussant)
-Harry Holzer, Faculty Director, Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy (panel chair)
Panel 2 bios
Lunch Presentation
Guy Molyneux, Partner, Hart Research Associates
Guy Molyneux bio
Panel 3: Children and Families
- "Low-Income Children, Their Families and the Great Recession: What Next in Policy after the ARRA?" Larry Aber, Distinguished Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University (presenter), and Ajay Chaudry, Director, Labor, Human Services, and Population Center, Urban Institute (co-author)
- "Promising Antipoverty Strategies for Families," Maria Cancian, Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison (presenter), and Daniel Meyer, Professor, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deborah Reed, Mathematica Policy Research (co-authors)
-Ruth Friedman, Senior Education Policy Advisor, House Committee on Education and Labor (discussant)
-Wade Horn, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP (discussant)
-Olivia Golden, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute (panel chair)
Panel 3 bios
Panel 4: Income Maintenance Programs
-"Creating a Safety Net that Works When the Economy Doesn’t: The Role of the Food Stamp and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Programs," Dottie Rosenbaum, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (presenter), and LaDonna Pavetti, Director, Welfare Reform and Income Support, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (co-author)
-"Supplemental Security Income for the Second Decade," Michael Wiseman, Research Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
-David Hansell, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (discussant)
-Sheri Steisel, Federal Affairs Counsel and Senior Director, Human Services Committee, National Conference of State Legislatures (discussant)
-Sheila Zedlewski, Director, Income and Benefits Policy Center, Urban Institute (panel chair)
Panel 4 bios
Panel 5: States and Localities
-"Reducing Poverty and Economic Distress After ARRA – Potential Roles for Place-Conscious Strategies ," Margery Austin Turner, Vice President for Research, Urban Institute (presenter) and Manuel Pastor, Professor of Geography and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California (co-author)
-"Laboratories of Underfunding? State Financing for Anti-poverty Efforts after the Recession," Nicholas Johnson, Director, State Fiscal Project, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
-Martha Coven, Special Assistant to the President for Mobility and Opportunity, The White House Domestic Policy Council (discussant)
-Anthony Williams, former mayor, District of Columbia (discussant)
-Peter Edelman, Faculty Director, Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy (panel chair)
Panel 5 bios
For questions about the event, please contact Karina Fortuny at
kfotuny@urban.org.
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