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Many times america will hear the Unemployment Rate go from seven percent to 6. 7 and would view as the country going in the right direction in regard to job creation and Economic Growth. But would you agree that actually the reduction in the Unemployment Rate is not an indicator of strong job growth like many of americans may think . I will unpack things a little bit. The decline in the unemployment , is somewhere around two thirds due to the decline in labor force participation. And about one t...

Think most americans have r an m idea of what the face of poverty is, what an individual in po poverty actually looks like and i think through these recent times people realize its ink affected everybody, rural, big cities, small communities, et cetera,le of b eve of every c. But today, as it stands, do any of you know, when it comes to wn the percent of people on public assistance, is the majority assn nonwhite minority or nonminority white. Does anybody know that figure . I dont know the figur...

Jerry, please go but i know where it is. Caller thank you for taking my call. I have a question for the congressman and a followup. Congressman, do you think it would have been right to keep american soldiers giving up their lives and limbs to fight in that country without being immunized from prosecution by the Iraqi Government . Okay. Whats your followup, sir . Caller my followup is that all these republicans, mccain and graham and everybody, talking about barack blew it. He didnt get the stat...

How the world works. Ton they return, they return the brand new mansion so once roosevelt left this site in 1872, at the age of 14, as far as we know, he never returned to the house again. The original house unfortunately went through some changes over the years. Im going to show you some historical photos to help you picture some of those changes. The first photograph dates back to around 1890s. And you can see there was a store front facade and a set of bay windows added to the building. But i...

Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have a...

The central part of the last election, and you want to deny the fact that elections make a difference. And so with that after a latenight session in the house, lawmakers voted to pass a bill that would keep the government funded past tomorrow, but House Republicans attached a oneyear delay to the Affordable Care act and repeal of a tax on those medical devices that help to fund the health care law. It is a measure that the Senate Democratic leader harry reid says he wont consider. Something the ...

Historian polls it doesnt rain the very high on historian polls, why do you think it is . She recognize alike Teddy Roosevelt it is a bully pulpit. There were things she cared about. She cared about head start. She was cognizant that there were children who do not get the food they needed and do not get the kind of school and they needed and they needed that head start. Because of the poverty in their homes. She wanted to go out and publicize this wonderful program. She also grew up surrounded b...

Too long, i think, ends up speaking to how much confidence we have in government and whether we still have the capacity collectively to bring about changes that are going to be good for our economy, good for our businesses, good for the American People. I do want to say, though, that, beyond the headlines, we have made Real Progress in the economy. And sometimes that hasnt gotten enough attention. Some of the tough decisions that we made early on have paid off, decisions that helped us not only ...

Pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your question...

Trugts. Im just wonder what you think the most effective tool is on this topic. Yes, sir. Thats an excellent question. What it is is its difficult to identify from an enforcement perspective one thing that is the absolute to the big problem its a comprehensive program is what it takes. For example, each state, including texas, obviously where im from, we have a comprehensive Enforcement Program to try to address commercial Vehicle Safety issues and Highway Safety issues as a whole, which include...