JEC HEARING THURSDAY (9/10): Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage: Assessing Key Census Indicators of Family Well-Being in 2008 September 8, 2009

JEC CHAIR MALONEY To EXAMINE NEW CENSUS DATA ON HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE, INCOME, POVERTY

JEC to Hold Hearing on Key Family Well Being Indicators to be Released by Census Bureau on Thursday

Maloney: On Heels of President's Speech, Expected Decline in Health Insurance Coverage

Will Add to Compelling Evidence that Reform Cannot Wait

Washington D.C. - Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Chair of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) will convene a hearing to examine the to-be released Census Bureau data examining trends in health insurance coverage, household income, and poverty through 2008. The hearing entitled, "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage: Assessing Key Census Indicators of Family Well-Being in 2008," will take place Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 1 p.m. in room 210 of the Cannon House Office Building. Witnesses will examine trends in health insurance coverage, income, and poverty over the 2000-2008 period, as the economic policies pursued during the previous administration left most families behind and ill-prepared to weather the current recession. The hearing will examine how policies being pursued by Congress and the Obama Administration will work to counter those trends and improve the well-being of families across the country.

WHAT: JEC Hearing, "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage: Assessing Key Census Indicators of Family Well-Being in 2008."

WHO: Panel I

The Honorable Rebecca Blank, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce

The Honorable Cecelia Rouse, Member, Council of Economic Advisers

Panel II

Dr. Karen Davis, President, The Commonwealth Fund

Dr. Harry Holzer, Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University and Institute Fellow, Urban Institute

Thomas Miller, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

WHEN: Thursday, September, 10 2009 at 1 p.m.

WHERE: Room 210 of the Cannon House Office Building

The Joint Economic Committee, established under the Employment Act of 1946, was created by Congress to review economic conditions and to analyze the effectiveness of economic policy.