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Lessons Learned: Financing Workforce Training for Results

Event Overview

Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and the Social Finance Institute held a timely conversation on one of the biggest questions in workforce policy: how to pay for high-quality training in ways that expand opportunity without pushing more risk onto workers or employers. Marking the launch of Lessons Learned: Financing Workforce Education and Training through Outcomes-Based Repayments by Harry Holzer and David Socolow, this event explored what emerging repayment models can teach us about funding short-term, career-aligned training for today’s labor market.

When: April 20, 2026, 12:30–2:00 pm ET

Where: Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks (3 minutes)

Karen Anderson, Managing Director, Social Finance Institute

 

Presentation of Paper and Key Findings (15 minutes)

Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy

 

Roundtable Discussion (1 hour, 7 minutes)

Panelists:
  • Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy
  • Ethan Pollack, Senior Director, Policy & Advocacy, Jobs for the Future
  • David Socolow, Head of Policy, Social Finance Institute
  • Jason Tyszko, Senior Vice President, Policy and Programs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Moderated by:
  • Rachel Lipson, Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Resident Scholar at the Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group, non-resident senior fellow at Brookings Metro

 

View the Paper Page

 

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