What is the Future of Industrial Policy in the U.S.?

What is the future of industrial and place-based based policies in the United States? How can we leverage these tools to address regional economic distress, generate jobs, and revitalize the U.S. economy? Over the past few years, several policies that collectively came to be known as "Bidenomics" brought back industrial policy and "place" to our vocabulary. But large parts of the U.S., especially at the local and regional levels, have been acquainted with such policies and practice for many decades. What are lessons we can learn from these years of experience? What is the history of such policies in the U.S.? And how did the Biden administration's policies serve as an inflection point? Where do we go from here?

Hear Heather Boushey, until recently, Member of the Council of Economic Advisers and Chief Economist for the Invest in America Cabinet in the Biden White House, in conversation with Professor Gordon Hanson, Academic Dean for Strategy and Engagement and Faculty Co-Director of the Reimagining the Economy Project.

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Also hear from a range of local leaders reshaping their regional economies across the country, in West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania, Birmingham, Alabama, and Buffalo, New York:

• Rebecca Gandour (Buffalo Urban Development Corporation)
• Jen Giovannitti (Benedum Foundation)
• Cornell Wesley (City of Birmingham)

This is a part of a larger conference in which the Reimagining the Economy Project will be bringing together leaders from regional economic and workforce development organizations, including winners and finalists of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge and the Recompete Pilot Program. The goal of this gathering is to take stock of recent place-based policies and interventions that aim to address economic distress and promote productivity.

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