featuring Heritage Foundation foreign and domestic policy experts
WHAT: Heritage Foundation experts available all day and night for analysis of the State of the Union Address
WHEN: Today, January 28, starting this afternoon with a Twitter chat (2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST) and continuing through the address at 9 p.m. EST
BACKGROUND: Heritage Foundation scholars will live blog (www.foundry.org) and Tweet (Twitter handles noted for experts participating below) leading up to and during President Obama's State of the Union Address. Below are some of the topics we expect to be addressed, and the analysts who will be available for interviews.
Overview
· Genevieve Wood?(@genevievewood) Senior Contributor, The Foundry
· Cameron Seward?(@sewardct) Program Manager, Impact Teams & Policy Services
Income Inequality & Economic Mobility
· David Azerrad?Director, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics
· Donald Schneider?(@donfschneider) Research Assistant, Center for Policy Innovation
· Salim Furth?(@salimfurth) Senior Policy Analyst, Macroeconomics, Center for Data Analysis
Minimum Wage
· James Sherk?Senior Policy Analyst in Labor Economics, Center for Data Analysis
Health Care
· Alyene Senger?Research Associate, Center for Health Policy Studies
National Security, Foreign Affairs
· James Carafano?(@jjcarafano) Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, E.W. Richardson Fellow, and Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Institute for International Studies
· Steven Bucci?(@sbucci) Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies
Energy
· Nicolas Loris?Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies
Education/ Universal Pre-K
· Lindsey Burke?(@lindseymburke) Will Skillman Fellow in Education
Immigration
· Derrick Morgan?(@ddmorganindc) Vice President, Domestic & Economic Policy
Farm Bill
· Daren Bakst?(@darenbakst) Research Fellow in Agriculture Policy, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies
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