This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome. My name is maureen conway. Vice president at the Aspen Institute and executive director. I am delighted to welcome you to todays conversation in our working in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we do a lot a variety of work to advance ideas that will help low and moderate income americans connect to Economic Opportunity and thrive in a changing economy. In the working in america series in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of opportunity that working americans face and consider ideas that could make things better for working people. Were extremely grateful to the ford foundation, to the prudential foundation, and the Walmart Foundation for their support of the working in america series. In todays conversation, as you have seen, well talk taxes and what tax reform could mean for low and moderate income workers in the United States. If you think about taxes, you probably try
This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome. My name is maureen conway. Vice president at the Aspen Institute and executive director. I am delighted to welcome you to todays conversation in our working in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we do a lot a variety of work to advance ideas that will help low and moderate income americans connect to Economic Opportunity and thrive in a changing economy. In the working in america series in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of opportunity that working americans face and consider ideas that could make things better for working people. Were extremely grateful to the ford foundation, to the prudential foundation, and the Walmart Foundation for their support of the working in america series. In todays conversation, as you have seen, well talk taxes and what tax reform could mean for low and moderate income workers in the United States. If you think about taxes, you probably try
Expanding the earned income tax credit. At this event hosted by the Aspen Institute. All right, good afternoon, everybody. And welcome. My name is moyne conway, Vice President at the Aspen Institute and executive director of the Economic Opportunities program. And i am so delighted to welcome you to todays conversation in our working in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we do a lot of a variety of work to advance ideas that will help lower and med upincome americans. In the working in america series in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of opportunity that working americans face and consider ideas that could make things better for working people. Were extremely grateful to the ford foundation, to the prudential foundation, the walmart foundation, for their support of the working in america series. Were going to talk taxes and what tax reform could mean for low and moderate income earners in the United States. If you think about taxes, y
Expanding the earned income tax credit. At this event hosted by the Aspen Institute. All right, good afternoon, everybody. And welcome. My name is moyne conway, Vice President at the Aspen Institute and executive director of the Economic Opportunities program. And i am so delighted to welcome you to todays conversation in our working in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we do a lot of a variety of work to advance ideas that will help lower and med upincome americans. In the working in america series in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of opportunity that working americans face and consider ideas that could make things better for working people. Were extremely grateful to the ford foundation, to the prudential foundation, the walmart foundation, for their support of the working in america series. Were going to talk taxes and what tax reform could mean for low and moderate income earners in the United States. If you think about taxes, y
Im a senior fellow here at brookings. Im happy to be here for two basic reasons. One, this is a great book. Two, vanessa is an awesome person. I am just so happy that vanessa, about a year ago, joined us here at the Brookings Institution and promptly produced this great book, having been here for a short time. I think i will go through the formal intro of vanessa. But heres something that says a lot about her i think, which is vanessa has written two books. Coauthored the first. The first one is called, the tea party and remaking of american conservatism. Vanessa as this book shows is woman of very strong convictions but in her tea party book, her convictions are quite different from those of Tea Party Activists she showed an enormous capacity for sympathetic understanding of people she profoundly disagrees with. We need that gift of empathy at this moment in our politics. So just to tell you how were going to do this, vanessa will come and talk about this great book and her findings.