[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Im carin bowen and a senior here the american enterprise. Well conclude this series. We are also us a grateful to the Bradley Foundation of milwaukee wisconsin, supporting this lecture series for more than a quarter century. When peter schuck giving a electric noor washington about hit new book, one nationen decide, Clear Thinking about five hard issues that divide us, we jumped the chance for peteer is one of the cleese expose thoughtful legal and policy scholars of this and or in the generation, a Professor Emeritus of law at jail and an aei visiting scholar in 1979, the year i arrived at aei. The author of among many other books, why government fails so often and how it can do better, understanding america, the institutions and policies that shape america in the world, and then coed it with our colleague, wilson, and finally, meditations of a militant bloggerrist, cool news on hot topics. Tonight copies of
A troubling statistic i discussed in the book is 40 of the sons born to fathers in the lowest quintile of income remain in lowest quintile of income and so demography is often destiny. If you are born to a father who was very polar, theres a very good chance, not overwhelming chance, but a very good chance youre going to be poor as well. To the discussion that poverty relates to blacks and i discuss why that is the case then why much of this discussion can be very misleading. The poverty rate is slightly lower than that of native americans and alaska natives. But more important point is more than 75 of blacks are not poor so the kinds of generalizations and images with warm are unfortunately quite inaccurate, though it is the case that many, too many blacks are born into poverty and will remain in poverty. The most important conclusion that i think analysts of poverty have come through in trying to determine what the trend is is that today, the class gap is even greater than the racial
Topic in the technicalities involved in the topics that people definitely recognized that this is a threat and this will only become an increasing threat as we move into a more interconnected digital age. We can talk about the internet of things or all of our devices Start Talking to one another, driverless cars. As we put more stuff into the cloud and are connected to each other that increases potential areas that can be attacked and we can continue to grow and Leverage Technology for good that we have to begin with security and how we protect that information. Guest another issue you have been active on congressman is something called the arrangement. Thereve been talks recently. Administration officials have gone to vienna and tried to list some of these export control restrictions for cybersecurity countries that have you done any update on how those talks went and is not what would you like to see as the ideal outcome . Will would be the final thing you would like to see happen to
Set the goal of rewriting the rules. s so more Companies Share profits with their employees, not just their executives, instead of shifting profits and jobs overseas, we have got the greatest country in the greatest economy in the world, lets start acting like it. Lets make it clear that the companies have to be part of that greatness [applause]. Lets set the goal of makinggoag sure that wall street and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. Of ways of now there are a couple ways of doing this. I have been proposing a number of them, something called thee buffett rule after warren buffetts. No millionaire should pay a lower tax rate than somebody working for him, like his secretary. [applause]. The people who have profited the most, even since the Great Recession of people now need to give back. This country hasry given so much to all of us. Everybody should share the burden. I have made a pledge, i will not raise taxes on the middle class, but, but we are going to raise taxes on c
Why americans become disenchanted with their political leaders and how to re forge the relationship. And on wednesday at books incorporation Antonio Martinez will provide it inside look for the future state of social media. And then on friday at barnes noble and southlake texas Nicholas Irving will discuss his a look at some of the programs that theyre covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future. I do want to let you know who is going to be introducing. Did you introduce yourself . She hold a phd. She is the associate professor. Thats here. She teaches courses and latin american. Literature. Literary theory and in all related areas. She has a manuscript currently under peer reviewed. History in the 20th century. This is extensive. It is in your program. So if you want to get rid the program and get the rest of the information from the program. In that case i will do this. Just briefly the honoree for this 13th National Black