Why fool around with an opening statement or two when you can watch the entire forum?<\/p>\n
There is a YouTube video<\/a> of this entire first session of the forum.<\/p>\n \nStreamed live on Feb 24, 2015<\/p>\n The Middle Class Prosperity Project, launched by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Cummings, will examine economic policies that threaten the middle class and identify new proposals that will ensure the middle class remains the engine of America\u2019s economic growth.<\/p>\n Today’s event is the the first in a series of congressional forums to hear directly from leading economists about how the nation\u2019s economic system has been rigged against the middle class over the past several decades. More details about the Middle Class Prosperity Project are available at http:\/\/1.usa.gov\/1acRUgT<\/a>.<\/p>\n Panelists include:<\/p>\n – Dr. Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities There is 2 hours and 13 minutes in this video, but nothing happens until about 11 minutes and 49 seconds, so you can skip through the frames until you see Elizabeth Warren. Rep. Elijah Cummings makes his opening statement at about 18 minutes into the video. The rest of the video is equally fascinating. If you consider yourself a progressive political junkie, you need to watch this video.<\/p>\n
\n– Dr. Beth Ann Bovino, U.S. Chief Economist at Standard & Poor\u2019s Rating Services
\n– Dr. Gerald Jaynes, Professor of Economics and African American Studies at Yale University
\n– Dr. Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia University\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n