We are having this discussion because low wage workers in the Fast Food Restaurant have paved been fired to raise the wages of themselves than their coworkers. That is the only way to get out of the drop that justins analysis hypothesizes. I think to ask a question about Public Policy measures, be they minimumwage kerrmcgee rtc labor and unemployment, you have to ask the question, are they are promoting a high wage lowwage society . We dont like the lowwage society but weve consciously built one and we can make different choices if we wanted different. Michael, did you want to come in . I will be brief. To think about it from the broad 30,000foot level of society to recognize the different agents in society have been responsibilities. Imagine workers firms in the government. In some sense, damon is arguing that we dont miss the lowwage system. If you talk about fast food industries, restaurants and lowwage workers, it is simply unrealistic to expect that a firm that is substantively tr
At palenque, tonina bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings to find out their capitals their seats of power. And through this we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the maya were made by spanish missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed in the imperial wake of hernan cortes. Their discoveries included the ruins at copan. But interest in the st
Joseph morton. Washington bureau chief for the omaha world herald and National Press Club Membership secretary. John rosen berg, Strategic Advisor on african policy. Christopher demuth fellow at Hudson Institute and a guest of our speaker. Angela keene a Bloomberg News White House Correspondent and former president of the National Press club. Maggie jaffey assistant to our speaker and her guest today. Donna, reporter for u. S. A. Today. And a former president of the national please club. Skipping over the speaker for a moment. Doris margolis, president of Editorial Associates health and Science Communications and the npc member who arranged todays program. Thank you doris. Michelle carter. Vicevice president for Worldwide Speakers Group and a guest of our speaker. Paul, National Security reporter for u. S. News and world report and a Third Generation member of the National Press club. Joel whitaker. Editor and publisher of canes beverage news daily and the former secretary of the Natio
Controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings, to find out their capitals, their seats of power. And through this, we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the maya were made by spanish missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed in the imperial wake of hernan cortes. Their discoveries included the ruins at copan. But interest in the lost civilizaon began to accelerate in the 18th century when father antonio de
But long ago, it was the world of the maya. Not an empire, nor a country, the classic maya culture flourished from the third to the ninth century in a far flung collection of citystates. At palenque, tonina, bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings, to find out their capitals, their seats of power. And through this, we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the