[URPE] EPI Shared Prosperity Forum, Beyond Balanced Budgets

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Beyond Balanced Budget Mania
An Agenda for Shared Prosperity forum
EPI, 1333 H Street, NW; East Tower, Suite 300
Thursday, April 12, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern

Please join us for a discussion that challenges the prevailing, but 
ultimately misguided notion that budget policy should single-mindedly 
focus on balancing the budget in the short-term and on fixing a 
so-called "entitlements crisis" in the long-term. Instead of fixating on 
balancing the budget at all costs, budget policy really should be about 
prioritizing the nation's various needs, including public investments in 
such areas as early childhood development, access to higher education, 
universal broadband, renewable energy, and so on. As for the long-term 
deficit problem, describing it as an "entitlements crisis" obscures the 
fact that what the nation is actually dealing with is a crisis in 
escalating public and private health care costs that can only be 
addressed with comprehensive health care reform.

Registration
1:30 - 2:00 pm

KEYNOTE & DISCUSSION
Joseph Stiglitz
Professor, Columbia University
Nobel Laureate, Economics 2001
Getting Beyond Balanced Budget Mania and Addressing the Nation's Needs

PANEL PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION
Henry Aaron
Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution
Chronic Deficits: Entitlement Crisis or Health Care Reform Crisis?

Joan Lombardi
Director, The Children's Project
Chair, Birth to Five Policy Alliance
Investing in Early Childhood Development: Science, Benefits, & Common Sense

Max Sawicky
Economist, Economic Policy Institute
Why Public Investment Matters


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Get more information about EPI's Agenda for Shared Prosperity at 
SharedProsperity.org
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