Your mind to memory, the memory of Community Action. To think about Community Action and ink about people who sacrifice to bring Community Action this far. Usehink about people who their time, skill, heart. To think about all of your sacrifices to make this moment, this gathering to bring all of us together. I was listening to what the minister had to say earlier and was thinking, wow, jesus said in the sermon on the mount, blessed are the merciful, the peacemakers for they will be called children of god. They will be remembered for all time. Today 50 we can see that Community Action is on its way to being remembered for all time. Food banks, clothing the naked, jobless turning jobless training, disaster relief, reentry programs, Emergency Fuel programs, housing, aide, emergency shelters. All of this is the reality , not being done because we are in a moment near death and focused on memory but because this is the good work, the ongoing work, the everyday work, the promise of Community
About the eligibility requirements of the current child nutrition assistance cadre of programs as they exist today . I think the important thing when youre talking about reducing errors and improper payment which is i think we all agree is a very important endeavor is to create a culture where a culture of compliance with the rules. We want the rules to be followed. I dont think the rules themselves are the problem i think its helping people understand them and there are lots of different people involved in the system. Its families when theyre filling out applications, its schools when theyre running programs, its states when theyre administering them. So i think that kind of day in and day out work is whats most important to reduce errors and reduce improper payments in the program. I would second that and also add its important to as a former president once famously stated, its important to not only trust but verify. I would add to that and say its important to trust and verify in a
Has put in place knew rules for prime institutional funds that get rid of the fixed dollar value. They will have net asset values that will reduce run risk. That aside to allow firms to impose fees something that could create Financial Stability risk that we need to watch. The so called Triparty Repo market which is a major source of shortterm wholesale funding, that contained great risks. We have taken steps important steps to mitigate. Central counterparties a thrust of reform has been to try to move as many derivative contracts as possible into central counterparties to have them. By central counterparties something that serves to reduce risk and complexity and enhance Financial Stability but when these entities themselves become systemic and clearly need supervision something that you have mentioned in imf work is that we have a major growth of open ended mutual funds where you have funds that are investing in highly illiquid assets. The industries are promised immediate liquidity.
So that is told in this book. Thats one message. Its sort of a yes, we can. The message of the book is about us, people like margaret and me. We know so much. But we believe in the book that we have let our people down. The leadership which we should be showing to our political leaders, to our committees, are anyways been wanting. And they step up. African a is a different africa. The africa that i grew up in was very hopeful. Africa is better again. Driven by two forces. One the Applicant Initiative itself. Africa transformed from a used ee which is more center. And also zerotolerance. You cant take power by force. Not allowed. Because of that we have more Economic Growth. Africa is more hopeful again. So it is time for people like margaret and me, and some of the africans who are here, lets step up and show leadership. In the last point is partner from outside africa. This is what market was saying, like the situation in liberia, sierra leone and so on. The people who can lead there,
Surprises for him up our sleeve. Ed pete doesnt know we have surprise. Pete you canning judge of which surprise is better. Competing till the end. Ed i have one up my sleeve as well. Meantime a lot of breaking news all weekend long. This fox news alert. President warning iran that america will not back down. Pete iran threatens the retaliation of for the death of qassem suleimani. Emily trey yingst in jordan what could happen next. Reporter good morning. Another funeral procession is underway for iranian general of qassem suleimani. Many of those participate points calling for the strong response. Iranian and Iraqi Parliaments are heading meetings today. Iraqis will begin deliberation whether or not to allow to continual howing u. S. Troops operating in iraqi territory. Two rockets occurred landing close to u. S. Bases. No u. S. Forces were injured in the assault. President trump said he is willing to hit 52 iranian linked sites if there is more provocation in a series of tweets, quote