Cash Awards for Higher Education Students with Innovative Economic Policy Proposals

The Hamilton Project, a new initiative from The Brookings Institution, is offering cash awards for innovative economic policy proposals from undergraduate and graduate students. Proposals in the areas of education, health care, social insurance, science and technology, tax policy, energy, and saving policy are particularly welcome.

The top undergraduate student will be awarded $10,000 and the top graduate student $15,000. Each winner will be invited to present his or her policy proposal to The Hamilton Project Advisory Council, including former Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers, Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, National Economic Advisor Laura D’Andrea Tyson and a broad range of leaders from business, academia, and the public policy community. Proposals are due by June 1, 2007.

Details are available at http://www.brookings.edu/es/hamilton/20061204_pr.htm

(Many thanks to Southern Compass http://www.southern.org for passing this along. Russ)