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USC Law Hosts Symposium on America’s Looming Fiscal Crisis
Where Do We Go From Here?
WHAT: USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center are bringing together leading experts to evaluate the causes of the nation’s financial crisis, the magnitude of the challenge facing the country in the next decade and possible responses by the federal government and the states.
The symposium will include four in-depth examinations, including “Anatomy of the Fiscal Crisis,” “Budget Process and the Demand for Revenue,” “Fiscal Crisis in the States,” and “Health Entitlements.”
WHO: Edward Kleinbard, USC Law professor and former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation in Washington, D.C.; William Gale, Brookings Institution; Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley; Leonard Burman, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Rosanne Altshuler, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center; Joshua Rauh, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Mathew McCubbins, newly appointed USC Provost Professor; Dana Goldman, USC School of Policy, Planning and Development; and Donald Marron, Congressional Budget Office.
Additional moderators include John Matsusaka, USC Marshall School of Business; and Elizabeth Garrett and Edward McCaffery, USC Gould School of Law.
WHEN: Friday, Jan. 15. Doors open for registration at 7:30 a.m., with the first panel beginning at 8 a.m., and last panel ending at 4 p.m. Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: USC Gould School of Law, Room 7.
COST: Free and open to the public.
MORE INFORMATION: A complete schedule and list of participants is available at http://law.usc.edu/centers/cslp/fiscalcrisis.cfm
REGISTRATION: To attend the symposium, please register at http://www.urban.org/events/other3/rsvp.cfm
TO WATCH VIA WEB:
Morning session:
http://lawmedia.usc.edu/LawMedia4/Viewer/?peid=f2e9ad6b55a44aa2a0f2ff5d3af6d4e1
Afternoon session:
http://lawmedia.usc.edu/LawMedia4/Viewer/?peid=3193b5bb165b4785bf3468db49add8cd
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