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Second "Make It In America: What's Next?" Hearing
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July 28, 2015
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2:27:02Now PlayingHouse Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) holds the second hearing in a series of hearings called “Make It In America: What’s Next?” After five years and 16 bills signed into law, and facing a different economic landscape today, the hearing series explores how the economy has, and hasn’t, changed, and what families and businesses need in 2015 to Make It In America.
The second hearing features testimony by the guest experts listed below who are leaders in their fields, and who address the issues that were brought up at the very successful first hearing in which over thirty House Democrats participated.
PANEL ONE: The American Economy
• Amy Liu, Co-Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program & Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution – responding to our economic challenges
• E.J. Reedy, Director of Entrepreneurship Research, Kauffman Foundation – entrepreneurship
PANEL TWO: New Economic Sectors
• Dr. David Weil, Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor – sharing economy and its relationship to the workforce
• Douglas Ellenoff, Partner, Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP – crowdfunding
PANEL THREE: Skills Training & Manufacturing
• Byron Auguste, Managing Director, Opportunity@Work, New America Foundation – skills training
• Jim Brett, President & CEO, New England Council – manufacturing
PANEL FOUR: Innovation
• Stephen Ezell, Director of Global Innovation Policy, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) – advanced technology manufacturing & Internet of Things
• Sonal Shah, Executive Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation, Georgetown University – improving government technology
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