Featured Event
December 05, 2008, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
A new administration presents an ideal opportunity to reshape the nation’s tax code. Improving the equity, simplicity and efficiency of the tax system will help to better prepare taxpayers, businesses and the economy for the challenges that lay ahead. Today, Brookings, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and Tax Analysts co-host a forum that explores timely policy recommendations for the incoming president and his transition team.
Listen to the live webcast: Windows » | QuickTime » Read More
The Presidential Transition,
Taxes,
Tax Reform,
Alternative Minimum Tax,
The Presidency
December 05, 2008,
National Press Club, Washington, DC
Since its inception, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives has drawn unprecedented attention to the issue of social service partnerships between government and religious organizations. Brookings will release a report, Serving People in Need, Safeguarding Religious Freedom, which suggests ways the next president should approach the that office, including whether to keep the office open or how to restructure it.
Read More
December 05, 2008,
The National Press Club, Washington, DC
Reuters/Fred Prouser
On December 5, The Hamilton Project will host a policy discussion on the challenges of prisoner reentry featuring remarks by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and a keynote address by U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.). The event will also feature a policy roundtable with a diverse group of experts on the need for a national prisoner reentry strategy.
Read More
December 09, 2008,
The Phoenix Park Hotel, Washington, DC
On December 9, The Hamilton Project will host a policy forum and release a new discussion paper on the need for a new national poverty measure. In their paper, co-authors Rebecca M. Blank of the Brookings Institution and Mark H. Greenberg of Georgetown University propose a new poverty measure that better reflects the actual economic conditions of low-income Americans. Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Roger C. Altman of Evercore Partners will give welcoming remarks and lead the discussion.
Read More
December 09, 2008,
Embassy of Italy, Washington, DC
On December 9, the Brookings Institution and the Italian Embassy will host a discussion with a keynote address by Joseph S. Nye, Jr., distinguished service professor at Harvard University, on how the forthcoming G8 Italian presidency might provide a stronger impetus towards cooperation on nuclear security—one that begins with civilian nuclear power and also addresses all of the traditional nuclear security questions.
Read More
December 10, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
On December 15, 1978, the United States and China announced the establishment of diplomatic relations between our two countries, ending almost three decades of official estrangement. Since then, the U.S. and China have developed a highly complex and mutually beneficial relationship, albeit with frictions and substantial differences. On December 10, several of the key actors in creating the modern U.S.-China relationship – General Brent Scowcroft, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke -- will speak at Brookings about what the relationship has meant, means, and will mean.
Read More
December 10, 2008,
The Brookings Institution
More than anything, a new administration is an opportunity for restoring confidence in the U.S. economy through greater transparency in how the financial system works and through new regulations that assure that such a crisis will not happen again. On Wednesday, December 10, Brookings Senior Fellow Martin Baily will be on hand to answer questions in a live web chat with Politico about fixing our troubled economy.
Read More
December 10, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
The fight against global poverty has become a fight for global security. But after an awkward entrance into the 21st century, America must redefine its role in the world, including its relations with developing countries. On December 10th, Brookings Senior Fellow Colin Bradford will offer a public memo to the president-elect with recommendations how to modernize U.S. aid efforts and address the global development challenges of the 21st century effectively and with accountability.
Read More
December 12, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
For the last five years, Brookings’ Saban Center for Middle East Policy has hosted an annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum designed to build bridges of understanding. On December 12, the Center’s Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World will host a discussion of The Doha Compact – New Directions: America and the Muslim World, a new report that encapsulates the ideas developed at the forum.
Read More
December 17, 2008,
The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Numerous organizations have expressed interest in establishing a Long-Term Care Quality Alliance in an effort to achieve sustainable, high-value, and person-focused long-term care in the United States. Based on an initial meeting and subsequent discussions with a wide range of stakeholders, there is consensus that the Alliance should focus on implementing or speeding efforts to improve quality in long-term care and related areas at the person level, regardless of setting.
Read More