March 31, 2016  

Purdue President Daniels heads to D.C. for labor, fiscal policy discussions

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University President Mitch Daniels will be in Washington, D.C., on Monday and Tuesday (April 4 and 5) to participate in panel discussions on the impact of the digital revolution on the labor market and budget policy.

“How we choose to address the labor market of the future and our federal budget and debt are critical to the nation,” Daniels said. “They are of particular concern to institutions like Purdue that are preparing students to go out and compete in the world that our policies will create for them.”

Monday’s event – the Markle Foundation’s A Labor Market for the Digital Age: Pathways & Opportunities – will take place 1-3 p.m. at the American Enterprise Institute’s Wohlstetter Conference Center, 1150 17th St. NW. Daniels will be part of a roundtable discussion with Markle Foundation CEO and President Zoë Baird and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. The panel will be moderated by Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute. Daniels serves as honorary co-chair of the Aspen Institute's Future of Work Initiative, which aims "to identify concrete ways to strengthen the social contract in the midst of sweeping changes in the 21st century workplace and workforce."

The discussion will examine the intersection of large-scale economic and technological transformations and how to “ensure all Americans benefit from the wave of digital revolutions that have permeated modern life.”

The program can be seen live at https://www.aei.org/events/a-labor-market-for-the-digital-age-pathways-and-opportunities/ and can be followed on social media at #AmericasMoment and by following @AEIecon, @amprog and @MarkleFdn.

On Tuesday, Daniels will take part in the 2016 Mortimer Caplin Conference, which will focus on fiscal issues facing the next president. The conference, hosted by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which Daniels co-chairs, and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, begins at 9:30 a.m. at the Hay-Adams Hotel, 800 16th St. NW.

Daniels will be featured in the session “Lessons from History - Budget Policy in the First Year” along with Alice Rivlin, a Brookings Institution senior fellow who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1993-1996. The talk will be moderated by former ABC News White House correspondent Ann Compton.

The conference is part of the Miller Center's First Year Project, a three-year initiative to develop bipartisan insights and recommendations to guide the next president in his or her first year, according to the event website. 

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