Good morning, i am Vice President for research and publications at the manhattan institute. Welcome to todays symposium on the state of treatment of americas mentally ill. Were pleased and honored to have with us to distinguished authors. Their current books on Mental Illness are shaping public discussion. Also, the assistant secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse its. She is playing a key role in shaping public policy. The is worth pointing out that the question of the right role for government into supporting the care and treatment of the mentally ill is one that has long vexed us as a nation. Consider the case of the educator who in the 1930s began to visit residents presence prisons. Sadly and tragically, the same can be said about the situation today. Even as the population of the Rikers Island jail here in new york city as declined, the percentage of the population that is mentally ill there has increased. She would be distressed to know that the atlantic referred to Coo
As. A un envoy for syria is attending along with syrian. Government representatives but the main Opposition Group is boycotting so what are the chances of success at this meeting while so many others have failed a live report from sochi. Also on the grid on side thousands of workers from the u. N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees take to the series of protests against the u. S. Decision to cut aid to the agency they support some five million palestinians the organization has launched a global fund and campaign to make up the shortfall and taking the heat fitness tracking companies is under scrutiny after i published a heat map showing the exercise rooms of a sousa rom the worlds problem is some of those words appear to reveal secretly u. S. Military locations used by soldiers overseas. Lots of conversation around the story followed. Beyond the Security Issues its brought attention to all the anonymous data thats been collected from our personal devices turns out its not so anonymous i m
Talk about were seeing what eight confirmations going through this week . Yeah, its the schedule that theyve laid out is very aggressive and it kicks off tomorrow. The issue is this. Theres a process by which these nominees surprise mit all the information and go for office and will tell the nominee whoever that may be listen you cannot do this or this and thats the real things. And other president s have run into this kind of thing. From what were hearing on capitol hill thats simply a lot of this work is not done yet and thats creating problems when you consider that these hearings are going to start beginning tomorrow someone like senator Jeff Sessions up here. Hes been a senator up here for years. But when you plug that scenario to someone like Rex Tillerson ceo of exxon mobile, well then that becomes a big problem because a lot of what theyre concerned about right now are financial situations and complications especially in Something Like state department. So we went to go see sen
Church. It is a story of fighting for civil rights and also fighting for understanding. We hope you will engage our authors as we hear from them how they were able to transcend biggest 3, fraud, racism, poverty and misery within the pages of our books. The shootings that took place in charleston opened up a deep wound of racism that still permeates the south, southern institutions and the fabric of our society. We we are charleston tragedy and triumph at the mother emanuel tell the story of people, people who had been continually beat down but also triumphed over the worst of adversity, exploring the stories of one of the oldest african episcopal churches looking at forgiveness and healing. It is my pleasure to introduce our panelists. First we have herb frazier. He is the editor. He has been the editor of five different daily newspapers in the south including his hometown paper, former michigan fellow at the university of michigan, currently marketing and Public Relations manager near
Church. It is a story of fighting for civil rights and also fighting for understanding. We hope you will engage our authors as we hear from them how they were able to transcend biggest 3, fraud, racism, poverty and misery within the pages of our books. The shootings that took place in charleston opened up a deep wound of racism that still permeates the south, southern institutions and the fabric of our society. We we are charleston tragedy and triumph at the mother emanuel tell the story of people, people who had been continually beat down but also triumphed over the worst of adversity, exploring the stories of one of the oldest african episcopal churches looking at forgiveness and healing. It is my pleasure to introduce our panelists. First we have herb frazier. He is the editor. He has been the editor of five different daily newspapers in the south including his hometown paper, former michigan fellow at the university of michigan, currently marketing and Public Relations manager near