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Thursday, February 19
Building Resilient Workforces Through Place-Based Economic Policy
As jobs are created, transformed, and displaced—often accelerated by AI—cities face urgent choices about how to address economic distress and build resilient, productive workforces. Gordon Hanson of Harvard Kennedy School will share insights from his latest research and discuss how cities can redesign budgets and implement countercyclical workforce policies.
