What Public Office have you held before, if you have and if so hello, welcome to all of those of you who braved the weather to come join us today and also to our online all of a sudden. We really appreciate you joining us. Im tara watson, i direct the center for Economic Opportunity here at brookings. I was asked to join a project. It was under the auspices of the convergence collaborative and the goal was to discuss policies to support working families and i quickly learned that this approach was really serious about bringing together people from across the ideological spectrum and about facilitating productive conversation so several dozen of us spent quite a bit of time for the past year producing a report. Youll hear a bit about that today, especially in the first panel bull then because the process was so unusual, i wanted to give people the opportunity to hear more about work across the spectrum more generally. So our second pan panel will be focusing on productive ways to do tha
Institution. Hello. Welcome to all of those of you who braved the weather to join us today, and also to our online audience. We appreciate you joining us. My name is tara watson, i direct the center for Economic Opportunities at here right here at brookings. A year ago, someone asked me to join a project. It was under the convergence collaborative, which i did not know much about. The goal was to discuss policies to support working families. I quickly learned this approach was really serious about bringing together people from across the ideological spectrum and about facilitating productive conversation. So several dozen of us spent quite a bit of time for the past over the past year producing a report. Which you will hear a little bit about today, especially in the first panel. Then because the process was so unusual, i wanted to give people the opportunity to hear more about work across the spectrum more generally. So our second panel will be focusing on productive ways to do that.
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