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RESCHEDULED FROM FALL 2012 America’s sluggish ascent out of the economic recession has included a growth of the national debt to almost $17 trillion and an unemployment rate that, while falling, remains disquieting. Both of these statistics are indicators of the health of our economy, and they both clearly highlight the vulnerability of America’s financial state.
[more]With the 2012 Presidential elections rapidly approaching, the political landscape is set for a showdown between President Obama and a Republican contender. The Republican Party, however, is currently one of transition, division, and doubt. Harvard Government and Sociology professor Theda Skocpol has studied and will speak to the emergence of the Tea Party and the new Republican Conservatism.
[more]Plan to join us on May 1, 2012 for the Class of 1930 Lecture, which will take place 4:30-6:00 pm in Room 003, Rockefeller Center.“The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism”Theda SkocpolVictor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
[more]Jeffrey Sachs Director, Columbia University Earth Institute Ending Poverty in Our Generation: Still Time if We Try Wednesday, October 13, 2010 4:30 PM • Room 28, Silsby Hall Class of 1930 Fellow
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