The Brookings Cafeteria
From 2013–2022, the Brookings Cafeteria podcast presented experts, ideas, and solutions across a range of policy topics. You can listen to past episodes at brookings.edu/BCP. The Brookings Podcast Network produces other policy-oriented shows that may interest you. Learn more at brookings.edu/podcasts. Follow on Twitter @policypodcasts.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 432
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2022
What does success at the Glasgow climate conference (COP26) look like?
Global leaders are gathering in Glasgow in the coming weeks as the United Kingdom hosts the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, known as COP26. As global temperatures contin…
00:35:12 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
Ending the state and local taxes (SALT) deduction
Millions of American taxpayers itemize their deductions, one of which is for state and local taxes, or the SALT deduction. Most of these filers are at the upper end of the income distribution and liv…
00:26:10 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Politics and the pandemic in Latino and Native American communities
This episode features an interview with an expert who calls immigration and the Latino vote a golden opportunity for Democrats in 2022. Gabriel Sanchez is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Governance S…
00:35:54 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Unpacking Opportunity Zones tax havens
David Wessel, a senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings, is author of the new book “Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works in the New Gilded…
00:30:53 |
Fri 08 Oct 2021
White decline and increased diversity in America's aging population
America’s white population is declining and aging, while the share of Latinos or Hispanics, Asians, and people who identify as two are more races is increasing. These are some of the findings in new …
00:31:25 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
Jordan and America's decades-long friendship
For over 70 years, Jordan has been an important ally in the Middle East for the United States, a connection built largely on the relationships between two Jordanian monarchs of the Hashemite family—K…
00:36:43 |
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Rule the waves, rule the world
Oceans are at the center of global competition, climate, and trade. In his new book, “To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the fate of the Superpowers,” published by Scribner, …
00:44:20 |
Fri 17 Sep 2021
How 9/11 changed the policy world
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, six Brookings scholars reflect on their personal experiences of that terrible day, and offer expert insights into how 9/11 changed policy and what the anniversary…
00:46:48 |
Fri 10 Sep 2021
Challenges to early childhood education in the wake of COVID-19
As students return to schools across the country, this episode of the Brookings Cafeteria features a rebroadcast of a recent online event from the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings on the…
01:03:40 |
Fri 03 Sep 2021
Why high unemployment persists for Black workers
Disparities between Black workers and white workers in employment and labor force participation existed long before the coronavirus pandemic, and the economic recovery following easing of COVID-19 re…
00:24:21 |
Fri 27 Aug 2021
The Taliban takes Afghanistan
On this episode, in the wake of the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan, a discussion of the forces and issues that have shaped Afghanistan over the last two decades and will continue to do so wi…
00:59:16 |
Fri 20 Aug 2021
Why it's harder for American workers to get ahead, and what we can do about it
On this 400th episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, Marcela Escobari, a senior fellow in Global Economy and Development at Brookings, talks about her new report on how to tackle the worker mobi…
00:30:46 |
Fri 13 Aug 2021
How to make retirement income more accessible for all Americans
Millions of households have built financial security through pensions and retirement saving plans, but millions more remain unable to access these wealth accumulation vehicles. In a new book from the…
00:39:01 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
After the COVID-19 lockdowns, how to fix benefit delivery tech for workers
The COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 caused a tidal wave of displaced workers who applied for unemployment insurance, or UI. But states, hampered by limited staff and outdated systems, struggled to get rel…
00:50:35 |
Fri 30 Jul 2021
A plan for marijuana policy reform
An interview with Brookings Senior Fellow John Hudak about his new paper, "Reversing the War on Drugs: A five-point plan," in which he lays out a series of policy actions the Biden administration cou…
00:28:46 |
Fri 23 Jul 2021
The Trump Organization tax fraud charges
Just days before tax fraud, larceny, and other charges against the Trump Organization and one of its top executives were filed in New York, Brookings published a report by four leading experts titled…
00:38:48 |
Fri 16 Jul 2021
Global China's growing role in the world
China is no longer just a rising power; it is now a truly global actor, economically and militarily. In a new book from the Brookings Institution Press, a collection of experts provides a broad asses…
00:35:04 |
Fri 09 Jul 2021
Dirty money in offshore banks
Billions of dollars and other currencies are in tax havens outside the owner’s country of origin, allowing individuals and corporations to evade taxation by their home governments. Since many of thes…
00:33:10 |
Fri 02 Jul 2021
Defending truth from the war on facts
Truth is contested ground. Facts are under attack. From disinformation to conspiracy theories, from social media pile-ons to campus intolerance, Americans are facing an epistemic crisis in their abil…
00:24:00 |
Fri 25 Jun 2021
A public reckoning on racial injustice and inequality
As the nation observes Juneteenth, we are still grappling with serious issues around civil rights, economic and political inequality, and unfairness in the criminal justice system. Now, a year after …
00:26:46 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
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