Train Wreck: A Conference on America's Looming Fiscal Crisis

Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center/USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics

Friday, January 15, 2010
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Pacific time
Gould School of Law, Room 7
University of Southern California
699 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074

To attend this event in Los Angeles register at http://www.urban.org/events/other3/rsvp.cfm.

To view a live Webcast from your computer:

Morning session:
http://lawmedia.usc.edu/LawMedia4/Viewer/?peid=f2e9ad6b55a44aa2a0f2ff5d3af6d4e1

Afternoon session:
http://lawmedia.usc.edu/LawMedia4/Viewer/?peid=3193b5bb165b4785bf3468db49add8cd

This conference on the long-term fiscal crisis will bring together leading experts from a range of disciplines to assess the causes of the current crisis, the magnitude of the challenge facing the country in the next decade, and the possible responses by the federal government and the states. Four panels will discuss key issues related to the long-term fiscal crisis: the anatomy of the long-term fiscal crisis; the federal budget process and the demand for revenue; the fiscal crisis in the states; and the role of health entitlements in the fiscal crisis at all levels of government. Each panel will include presentations of two papers, a comment on those papers by a discussant, and time for audience discussion on the topic. The presentations and discussion will engage the audience that will be comprised of scholars, policy makers and members of the public.

PROGRAM