Our team members at nsa include analysts, collectors, operators, mathematicians, linguists, cryptographers come engineers, computer scientists, and too many of the skills to list you by name. Our workforce ranges from high school in terms to junior enlisted members of the military to Senior Executives at the civilian service and flag rank officers in the military. Nsa personnel are well educated with over 75 of our civilians holding bachelors degree or higher. Our military and civilian linguists working in our foreign Intelligence Mission of proficiency in over 120 different foreign languages. Almost 40 of our employees work in the Science Technology engine and mathematics fields. They hold the majority of the over 200 patents that have been granted to members of the nsa workforce. More patents than any other federal agency. In addition to working every toy to keep our country safe, our employees help enhance the local communities by doing to much volunteering in classrooms, planting C
That see those of culture and compliance that i think it s. Our greatest advantage. Nsa plays a significant role in counterterrorism efforts, discovering terrorists plans, intentions, communications and location toss disrupt or defeat the their attack. Obviously we cant go into great detail here, but to what extent can you discuss it please he will plate on that ns sachlt is doing to combat terrorism and more specifically something that every american is focused on is and isil. So without going into the details of how we do this, we broadly use our ability to Work Communications in the foreign space to generate insights as to what isil and other groups are doing. Largely through our cyber and our signals intelligence expertise. The challenge i would argue in the Counterterrorism Mission set for us, whether its isil, ive seen the same thing in al qaeda and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, for example, ive seen more changes in their behavior in the last two years probably than any othe
Tackle them together. I am also convinced that we are going to have to stand up for our fundamental rights, our civil rights, our human rights, womens rights, gay rights, because the other side wants to pull them back. [applause] hillary so i will defend a womens right a womans right to choose and i will fight against defend in planned parenthood. [applause] hillary and i will defend and fight for Marriage Equality and against discrimination. [applause] hillary and i will fight for Voting Rights for everybody and against states that are trying to restrict them. [applause] hillary and i will fight to overturn Citizens United which dark,ened the doors to unaccountable money. I will fight to get comprehensive Immigration Reform because i believe its in the best interest of our country. [applause] hillary i will fight for criminal Justice Reform and to move away from mass incarceration because black lives matter [applause] crowd Hillary Hillary and i will tell you that i am going to fight
Terrorism, we have assembled a panel of leading experts to discuss these issues which include, by the way three generals with seven stars between them. Coming to moderate the panel is jerry who was one of the original members of the delta force and commanded all of the armys green berets. Today we are proud to announce he served as the Vice President of the Research Council. Ladies and gentlemen as these men come to the stage would do not just welcome them but also thank them for their service to the United States of america. [applause] thank you all very much. Please be seated. My name is jerry boykin. Tony is a marine and i normally start my presentation with a range of. Having said that, general conway is a retired commandant of the marine corps, so im going to skip that out of fear for my life. [laughter] we are going to go right into it. Listen i know as americans we are all concerned about what we see today unfolding across the globe with the chaos that we see with the ebola is r
Inequality. If you look at what actually happened to people, a lot of what matters, they are aftertax income and weve had substantial tax cuts in middleclass families, make tax cuts permanent that are worth thousands of dollars a year, had additional tax cuts for the areas like the itc and Child Tax Credit and on top of that you have the Affordable Care act. When you take all that into account, the policies of this administration have substantially reduced income inequality relative to what you otherwise would have had. In terms of the underlying trend in the economy i think that challenge is to with this and their dynamics, technology, education, globalization institutional changes, declining value of the minimum wage, all of those factors i think our continuing you know to create an underlying challenge to inequality and thats what were proposing all the steps we are for minimum wage to education to shaping globalization in terms are good for American Workers and the American Economy