The Simkins Lecture will feature three Washington-based economists via video conference on Monday, Nov. 16

A program featuring three Washington-based economists who are members of the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, a bipartisan effort to stimulate a public discussion about the federal budget and fiscal responsibility, will be presented via video conference Monday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. in Blackwell Auditorium.

The panelists for the Simkins Lecture will be Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition; Isabel Sawhill, director of the Brookings Institution's Budgeting for National Priorities; and Alison Fraser, director of the Heritage Foundation's Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies. Also, State Sen. Frank M. Ruff Jr. (R-15^th), who is not part of the tour, will attend the program in person and will address local effects of these federal issues with particular attention to the long-term impact on students. The tour, which has visited more than 50 cities since 2005, is sponsored by the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to fiscal responsibility.

For more information, view the news release.