Special Briefing: Working with the CARES Act and What May Come Next

Penn IUR and the Volcker Alliance will host an online briefing to discuss the lessons states and localities have learned from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed earlier this year and what may be in store in the fight against COVID-19 and its fiscal fallout as 2021 approaches.

Moderated by William Glasgall, Senior Vice President and Director of State and Local Initiatives, Volcker Alliance, and Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter, this briefing will be the 16th 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 presentations by Carolyn Bourdeaux, Representative-Elect (D-GA); Julie Demuth, Budget Manager, Pierce County, Washington; Mark Funkhouser, Former Mayor, Kansas City, Missouri, and President, Funkhouser & Associates; Fitzroy Lee, Chief Economist and Deputy Chief Financial Officer, District of Columbia; Brandon McComas, Research Associate, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; and Richard Ravitch, Former New York State Lieutenant Governor and Director, Volcker Alliance.