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The United States has one of the highest incarceration rate in the world. There are Racial Disparities in conviction and sentencing. We need to reform our criminal Justice System and develop alternatives to the existing policies. Talking about criminal Justice Reform and how to approach the issue. I am pleased to welcome Governor Terry mcauliffe to the brookings institute. Many of you know him as governor of the commonwealth of virginia. Jobs andrked to create build a 21st century economy. Tois ...

For all that heb and walmart, lowes, and soon to be home depot are doing. So there is much to do, and those are just the most immediate steps. Importantly, this is a place that texas and fema will be involved in for a long, long time. We will be here until we can restore this region as back to normas possible. Or as we discussed in our meeting earlier, we need to recognize its going to be a new normal. Will be a new and different normal for this entire region. But we will not stop until we get a...

Lets give them a good round of applause. [applause] its a chock full day. Youll start hearing people give you insight to Social Security and a lot of it in depth of the actuarial perspective which are the lifeblood of the Social Security so youll be hearing but the key to this day, in my view and i hope to be here the whole day, is the last session real have a chance to put together a Social Security long term solvency program. Youll hear a lot of the options discussed and to do it yourself. Thi...

[inaudible conversations] all right, so before we have the doctor, up to give what will be great keynote remarks, i want to start the morning off with having a conversation with you about something that is near and dear to me as one of those two represents a Success Story of the great specialized care system, spinal cord injury does the system of care. Before i get to exactly what the topic is, i want to ask a couple questions. What are some of the reasons why one becomes a clinician . Why do yo...

Take a look at gasoline, another twoyear high at 5 and the spread getting wider. Wti versus brent off by six dollars, really speaking to the overproduction and oversupply of oil in the u. S. As the impact of Hurricane Harvey is truly felt. 2 10 of a up by percent. Steady for now. And the commodity we are really watching, copper. Seven 7ch million a ton . And emma chandra has first word news. Emma Hurricane Harvey hitting louisiana, making its second landfall today coming ashore in the western pa...

That is not until friday, saturday. A couple days to see if it comes together. Not so much today but it looks like even the coast and San Francisco are going to get a pretty significant warmup heading towards thursday and friday. Highs around the inland areas will be 100 to possibly 115. That is the forecast for livermore from the National Weather service. I didnt go that hot. I only went 110. Either way, saturday also will be very hot. If livermore does hit oops. I didnt save this. If they hit ...

Not seem to be having an influence on the major averages come even though its well above the survey. The dow,l moves for s p 500, and nasdaq. Mixed rating with the nasdaq down slight the. No longer on pace for a record close. On the week, big gains. S p 500 and nasdaq on pace for their best week since middle july. Despite the uncertainty in the real world about geopolitical tensions, debt ceiling, potential government shutdown, we are mainly looking at stocks trading higher in a bullish manner. ...

In the making. Brenda lawson, gary studds had been processed and was ready for researchers and also mentioned mark schneider, our speaker this evening with using this to research a book. I resend it to mark ended august 16, 2016, he agreed to speak here. 11 months later we are ready to go, quite some time in the making. Research in our collection is the source of our Public Programs, we are lucky to have a worldclass collection and it is worth acknowledging the collection of papers donated to us...

When youre selling your property, doing some very simple things can give you an amazing bang for your buck. One of those things its called staging. Its basically remodeling or redecorating your home to make it attractive to any potential buyer so important. And the results . They can be dramatic. We tagged along with professional home stager jennifer paxson, as she transformed two properties that are about to hit the market. What we do as stagers is we bring furniture in so that people can see h...

We are grateful for their sponsorship. Firstperson is a series of conversations with survivors of the holocaust, who share with us their firsthand accounts of their experience during the holocaust. Each of our first person guests serve as volunteers at the museum. The museums website provides information about each of our upcoming firstperson programs. We will have a Program Next Week and the following week. Josi will share her experience during the holocaust and as a survivor for about 45 minut...