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Taxing Wall Street

9:00am – 10:30am

Families across the country are struggling with declining incomes and high unemployment. Meanwhile, Wall Street is raking it in: This year they have seen their profit and bonuses return to the same levels as previous years, thanks in part to the infusion of taxpayers' dollars to keep them afloat during the peak of the financial crisis. Everybody can agree that this is hardly fair. However, not everyone agrees on what to do about it.

There is a growing debate over the merits and feasibility of using the tax system to raise much-needed revenue and curb future risk taking and speculation by the financial industry. The financial transactions tax—a small tax on the trades of stocks, bonds, derivatives, and other financial instruments—is one possible option. However, would it work?

Please join the Center for American Progress and the Center for Economic and Policy Research as we discuss taxing Wall Street—why we should do it, how we can, and the best options moving forward.

After Copenhagen

12:00pm – 1:00pm

This event will take place as scheduled at CAP. If you are not able to attend due to weather, you can watch the event live here.

Todd Stern, U.S. special envoy for climate change, will be speaking about the lessons of the COP-15 summit in Copenhagen last December, the significance of the Copenhagen Accord that was negotiated there, and the path forward over the coming year and beyond. This will be Stern's first public speech since the January 31 deadline for inscribing mitigation targets and actions in the Copenhagen Accord.  An expert discussion panel follows the address.

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Upcoming Events

The Global Implications of Climate Migration

February 11, 2010, 10:00am – 11:30am

It is inevitable that as global warming intensifies hurricanes, exacerbates drought, and adds to resource shortages, we will need to prepare for extreme conditions and responses, and this includes human migration. Some estimates suggest that as many as 200 million people could become climate migrants by 2050. The panelists will therefore discuss the implications of climate migration with regard to adaptation strategies, frameworks for addressing internal and international movements, and new, comprehensive strategies to deal with unique challenges.

Please join us for a discussion of this delicate intersection of climate change, development, and human migration.

Time to Connect for Student Success

February 17, 2010, 9:00am – 10:30am

Join us for a discussion about the role that community partners play in schools that have an expanded school calendar. A new report from the Center for American Progress will launch the discussion. The report profiles community partnerships that four traditional public schools and one charter school have further developed to carry out their expanded school schedule. The lessons that these schools and community providers have learned—invaluable to practitioners and policymakers alike—will be shared.

A new policy brief examining how the successes of expanded learning time schools can be scaled up in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will also be highlighted.

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