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The Officers and Board of DC LERA invite you to
join us at our
Monthly Luncheon
Noon, Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Headquarters, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Alternative Economy Policies and
the Future for Jobs and Economic Growth
Guest Speakers -
Heather McGhee, Director, Washington, D.C. Office Demos
John Irons, Director of Research, Economic Policy Institute
Heather McGhee is deeply involved in
assessing and publicly articulating the impact of federal
policies on the economic health of the nation. In that role,
she appears frequently in national media outlets. For
example, she appeared recently on Countdown on MSNBC
discussing the effects of taxing and spending policies on
GDP and jobs.
John Irons focuses his research on the
U.S. economy and economic policy, with an emphasis on
federal tax and budget policy. Recently, John was a featured
participant in the conference America’s Fiscal Choices:
Strengthening the Economy and Building for the Future,
where, along with other leading thinkers, he discussed the
critical economic choices and challenges confronting the
nation
Heather and John will offer us their
views and thoughts on the current economic dilemma,
alternative scenarios for moving forward, and what trends we
might expect to see in the jobs situation.
It promises to be a fascinating
program, full of insights from two people deeply immersed in
the policy debates. We invite you to join us. Find out
more about the speakers at the end of this page.
About the speakers:
Heather McGhee – As the Director of
Demos' Washington office, Heather develops and executes
strategy for increasing the organization's impact on
federal policy debates in Washington. Previously, she was
the Deputy Policy Director, Domestic and Economic Policy,
for the John Edwards for President 2008 campaign, and a
Program Associate in Demos' Economic Opportunity Program.
Her writing and research on debt, financial services
regulation, retirement and inequality have appeared in
numerous outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, USA
Today, the Detroit Free-Press and CNN. She is the
co-author of a chapter on retirement insecurity in the
book Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in
America and its Poisonous Consequences (New Press, 2005).
She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University
and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley
School of Law.
John Irons joined the Economic Policy
Institute in 2007. His areas of research include the U.S.
economy and economic policy, with an emphasis on federal
tax and budget policy. He previously worked as the
Director of Tax and Budget Policy at the Center for
American Progress (2004-2007) and as a tenure-track
Assistant Professor of Economics at Amherst College
(1999-2003). He has also worked for the Brookings
Institution (1995) and at the Federal Reserve Board of
Governors (1992-1994). His academic publications have
appeared in several journals including the Journal of
Monetary Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, and
the Review of Financial Economics. He is also co-editor of
Testing Exogeneity, published by Oxford University Press.
He has won several awards for his economics Web sites,
including top-5 awards from The Economist and Forbes. He
currently serves on the Committee on Electronic Publishing
for the American Economic Association, and on the Board of
Governors of the National Economists Club. Dr. Irons holds
a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and a B.A. in Economics from
Swarthmore College
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