Special Briefing: COVID-19 and the Fiscal Outlook for U.S. Cities: Strategies for Survival and Recovery

Penn IUR and the Volcker Alliance will host an online briefing to discuss which cities may be most vulnerable to budgetary shocks resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the strategies they may employ to see them through the crisis and eventual recovery. 

Moderated by William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance senior vice president and director of state and local initiatives, and Susan Wachter, Co-Director of Penn IUR, this briefing will be the third in a series of 60-minute online conversations featuring experts from the Volcker Alliance’s national research network and Penn IUR, along with other leading academics, economists, and fiscal policy leaders from around the U.S.

This special briefing will feature Shirley Clarke Franklin, former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia; Mary Murphy, Project Director for Fiscal and Economic Policy, State Fiscal Health, The Pew Charitable Trusts; and Michael A. Pagano, Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Director of the Government Finance Research Center.