First Tuesdays is a series of public policy events on a wide variety of current topics. Drawing from Institute researchers and area experts, these lunchtime discussions offer authoritative analysis and audience interaction on topics ranging from social services and politics to faith well-being.
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Audio Recordings of Past Events
Are You Better Off? Changing Risks and Rewards in Modern America (June 3, 2008)
Dollars for Defense: War, Taxes, and Sacrifice
May 6, 2008
Can Tax Credits Be a Linchpin for Health Reform? Lessons from the Factory Floor
April 1, 2008
iCame, iSaw, iCrime: Exploring the Personal Technology-Violent Crime Connection
March 4, 2008
When Interconnected Needs Confront Fragmented Services: Are There Better Ways to Help Children with Disabilities?
February 5, 2008
Special-Needs Housing for the Frail Elderly and Homeless
January 8, 2008
Who Will Hire Me When I'm 64? Challenges in increasing the employment of older workers
December 4, 2007
Houston, Do We Really Have a Problem Here? A new look at science and engineering in America
November 6, 2007
Next Steps in Providing Benefits to Low-Wage Workers
October 2, 2007
Can Tax Policy Slow Global Warming?
June 5, 2007
Who Will Pay for Boomers' Long-Term Care?
May 1, 2007
Workforce Development Policy and the Economy: Looking to the Future
April 3, 2007
Immigrants and the Low-Wage Economy
March 6, 2007
Rebuilding a Devastated Arts and Culture Community: How Can New Orleans Recover?
February 6, 2007
Increasing the Minimum Wage: Implications and Effects
January 2, 2007
The New Congress and the Budget: Perspectives From Three Former CBO Directors
December 5, 2006
Making Taxes and Welfare Work Together
November 7, 2006
Immigrant Student Success: Lessons from Abroad for U.S. Policy
June 6, 2006
Health Insurance Tax Incentives: The Cure or the Disease?
May 2006
Police at the Prison Gates: Law Enforcement and Prisoner Reintegration
April 2006
Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men
March 2006
Productive Aging: Boon or Burden?
February 2006
Transcripts from previous First Tuesdays
June 1998 to March 2006
