Legislator and good friend, chris taylor, from wisconsin who is a quick announcement in that regard. Hello everybody. I just want to build on and i talked to our nevada folks about this the issue that gone epidemic in the most recent tragedy and share a tactic that we are using in wisconsin that im happy to share with you a lot of you may have done this already. We have introduced a lot of Gun Safety Bills including a bump stop band but we formulated a letter circulating to the entire wisconsin legislator directed at our federal upset it is an President Trump calling on them to take action immediately to pass background checks in the bump stop band and to allow the [inaudible] to do the Important Research on the impact of guns and Public Safety and health. Wanted to encourage your delegation to consider doing this. I think it would be powerful every state sent a letter federally to your delegation calling for action and not just pursue these policies in your state to which is another great option but i have a letter that we are currently going to send from our wisconsin delegation if you are interested in taking thats for adopting some of that and it would be superpowerful if we had all of our delegations to deliver states, i think, send a letter calling on congress to finally act in this to act on these very, very common sense gun safety measures. See me if youre interested to see the letter that we are sending. Thank you everybody. [applause] thank you so much, chris. We will have a copy of the letter at the table that had the survey out so thats where you can sign on if you like. Let me introduce our next panel before i do that i will say im sam, director of Student Engagement and i think you know me from previous stints at the podium in previous years but its classic to be here in front of this crowd which is bigger every year and contains so many friends who are friends of several years now. It is great to be here in front of you all. It gives me particular pleasure to introduce the panel in the topic in this next engagement and set of speakers for number of reasons. First, we have the pleasure of having truly eminent intellectual giant, doctor Jeffrey Sachs who is known to most of you for his work on Climate Change with Vice President al gore among others and if not for that his work on un sustainable goals. That is fantastic but second this is a topic that as i was just telling him near and dear to my heart how to measure progress in the world in other than dollars and cents. Something that that goes deeply to the actual quality of human existence in a particular place in particular time. Its something that i worked on off and on over the years and so is his next project is that it is great to see that start to take form in a way that his implementation and reality. Finally, it was not that long ago that the state of exchange was a fledging project starting up ourselves and many of you in this room remember that and we had many partners and friends and organizations who generously give us a platform and many of you did in your states, give us platform to come and talk about what at that time seems like in some ways of our best idea that you can build a network of progressive educators that would have power and staying power and influence and help. So, its a pleasure to be able to pay that forward in to give a platform for another project that is aspirational and strategic and well thought out and, you know, also we hope in a way that is generally innovative and has great promise. With that, i will turn it over to the cofounder and chair of future now, adam, to introduce the doctor. [applause] one of my colleagues, daniel, was out in the hallway and overheard someone say if there is any penalty miss it is as one so i hope that is not true. Im here to prove that it is in fact not true. Public officials, colleagues, friends, nick, team and state innovation, thank you so much for having us here to launch future now. Future now is an organization focused on electing leaders like all of you, committed to bold, achievable goals for our countrys future. The cofounders came together, professor Jeffrey Sachs was here today, preeminent scholar, academic and daniel squadron, former state senator and we found in future now to give political test to americas goals for 2030. These goals are comprehensive, these goals are longterm in these goals are nonpartisan. Using americas goals as a guiding framework future now seeks to support candidates who signed a pledge and endorsed this broad agenda so by signing the pledge candidates have access to donor pool, network like this, training, education and more. Why me . Why did i decide to do this project . Most of you who know my familys last name associated with commercial success and pillage. So be it. But my family actually, if you look back, is a typical 19th century european immigrant story of my great, great grandfather clean persecution in what is now geographically the ukraine to come to the United States. He documented that journey in a book that i actually have here with me today. Niclas arrived in the United States at the age of nine. No resources, no understanding of the english language, no relationships and eventually became a pharmacist and then became a lawyer and no law firm would hire him. He was jewish so he decided to start his own called picture in picture and over a century later here i am with this book and that book ends before anyone started anything other than the law firm and Royal Caribbean or ticketmaster and i can only imagine what niclas might think if he saw how far our family came in what he began. For those of you who are curious this book really has two key takeaways. One, but by the grace of god go i and two, we have to remain aware of where we came from and we have to work every day to make the world and america a better place for our children and our childrens children. I felt a real ethical imperative to launch this project with professor sachs and daniel. Without further ado, i would love to welcome my cofounder, my friend, mentor, former professor, doctor Jeffrey Sachs. Thank you, guys. [applause] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We are really thrilled to be here and we are really thrilled to be launching the future now together with you, the state Innovation Exchange and all that you sent. On the Exchange Website it says we support state legislators who seek to strengthen our democra democracy, fight for working families, defend civil rights and liberties and protect the environment. That is what we believe is what america is all about. This what were proposing and would like you to be leaders of this movement is to embrace clear specific measurable goals for our country, looking forward, holding ourselves as citizens accountable, understanding that thank god not everything depends on washington dc that we can solve problems in states, even when we have the bizarre situation we have today watching the battles between senators and president s over to her yesterday where senator corker got it right and someone missed the daycare shift in the morning yesterday at the white house, the accurate description. We can still make progress and states can be champions of this progress and the progress should come from expressing what americans want and what they need. It is true to this day that despite the fact that we are enmeshed in terrible partisan battles and are trapped by special interest the vast bulk of our country, the vast proportion of our citizens want a decent life for themselves and their children with the same values that are the impulse of the state Innovation Exchange and of our thoughts about americas goals. The idea is that we can get out of our trap, boy are we track right now we are trapped by stalemate and trapped by politics in washington that really is cheating its lies and its in the hands of the vested interests, corporate interest dominate, as you know very well, how else can one explain the Republican Party leadership trying for nine months to put forward legislation that their own constituencies despise. Why is that . Well, there was one on a story about it couple pics go in your time saying that our donors are pushing us to do this and if we dont do it the donors cut back. That is the deal right now. They were so embarrassed with this legislation that they would not even show it to last minute and they wouldnt hold hearings on it and they wouldnt hold public discussion on it because they knew that it was repulsive. We want to advocate champion things that are what people really want and measuring them and tracking and holding us all accountable. I do believe is a go through these quickly that these are not especially goals of democrats versus republicans but these are goals that across society normal people want, not necessarily powerful billionaires that fund Republican Party and i dont know if sheldon wants this or Robert Mercer wants us but we cant care less whether that is true. Who cares what david and charles will want to work cares, two votes . Nothing more than two votes. They can vote they cannot own our political system. [applause] lets try to help america to understand what we really could achieve. Let me go through the, if the clicker will allow that. Well, there we go. Okay. I can barely see them. Any help with this . Okay. Since i cant see the screen im coming down here. Im going to sit with you and were going to look together. Okay. So the idea is seven goals, each of them with three targets, all of them measurable, really important. No joke, no nonsense. For example, good job. Okay. Three goals that one 100 of jobs should pay a livable wage and that is not true. We have today 9 Million People working that that are in poverty. That is just using that on dls every month. Second, everybody should have paid Family Vacation and sick leave. [cheering and applause] and third, that labor rights should be protected with increasingly worker representation. Okay. [applause] if you look at the map basically the darker the shade the farther away from achieving those goals. This one is a map of People Living in poverty in the United States. Let me show you a basic point. This is all the high income countries, for all the graphs im going to show you all the way on the far left, maybe not by coincidence but that is the best. Okay . All the way on the far right that is the worst. Look at where the United States ranks compared to other countries. For example, in People Living in poverty, as measured by the oecd, the rich countries. Dont tell me cant have low poverty in the United States that all those other countries figure it out and we cant . Of course. This is that policies we have. Not inevitability this is not the unclear global system that is so unfair to us. They all have a system and this is unfair insider country. Dont blame it on the mexicans and dont blame it on the immigrants and dont blame it on the chinese. Blame it on billionaires who are so greedy. [applause] that they bought the Republican Party in washington and are trying in this moment to cut taxes for themselves, 1 trillion more. Goal number two, affordable, quality healthcare. Measurable a standard number one, universal, Affordable Health coverage with a cap on outofpocket expenses, all measurable. Second, Life Expectancy of at least 84 years. Third and hunger for one 100 of households. How come we have hunger in the United States unbelievable. Unbelievable. So you see again the states that are in darker shade farther from the school shown here are proportions of people that do not have Adequate Health insurance. Could you do this . Look at this craziness. This is how much the United States spends on health care because weve got monopolies all across the country because we have pharmaceutical prices that are out of control and we give them a 20 year monopoly in say charge anything you want and you tell us the bill. Then when it is too expensive like gilead charging 1000 a pill for help seek your then we tell people that show up that are infected sorry, go home, youre not close enough to just yet and you dont qualify for coverage. This is the United States of america not in the middle ages but in 2017. Severe pain 70 of our Gross Domestic Product for healthcare where all the rest of the countries that we compare with with higher life been ten12 . Ladies and gentlemen, that is a trillion dollars difference a year of jacked up prices in the United States. That is what that is. Goal number three, investing in our children. You have to be pretty damn weird to not want your children to succeed. Right . Americans want good schools so target number one, one 100 completion of quality k12. Goal number two, past the Higher Education including Technical Training without debt, without debt back third, Early Childhood education for one 100 of our kids. [applause] we are earning 60000 a person a year for every man, woman and child in this country, dont tell me we can afford universal pre k. Can. So this map again shows some states are close to that and other states are far behind but look at the United States. Again, okay, how do all of these other countries do this and we dont do it. Nonsense. Goal number four, empowering people over special interests. Goal number four, lipid corporate special interests spending. We know about that. Target be, at least 70 Voter Participation in their legislative districts and goal target number see, but there should be personal control for everyone over the privacy of their online data because we have got massive theft and massive invasion of privacy and so forth. This map shows how uneven it is and how many places have miserable voter turnout among our states. This shows where American Voter turnout is compared to other countries. Dont tell me cant have higher voter turnout with proper rules. With more access. Trying a little bit harder for our democracy. The states can lead the way. Goal number five, equal opportunity for all. Equal pay for equal work regardless of gender or race. Pretty simple. Target number two, and mass incarceration for non violent offenders. [applause] and target number three, freedom from ethnic and racial profiling for everyone. And we know again there are massive daily unjustified gaps in earnings between men and women in across racial groups of course without question. Again, here is where the United States stepped up and this is womens earnings relative to mens earnings. Why do we have to be always at the low end of the comparison . This isnt the International System and this is us and the choices we are making it again dont have to wait on washington because states can lead the way. Goal number six sustainable infrastructure, resilience and innovation. Target one, 100 roads and bridges and roadways and airports and levees should be in a state of good repair. Not quite these days. Number two, plans that every community should have plans for resilience against natural disasters. So sorry that after harvey hit texas and you go back how many times was houston warned that its inevitable that flooding will come and make a plan and instead we had a governor of texas that was busy suing the epa rather than making plans for his state. I think he should just go home and apologize frankly that this is what we have when we dont have plans. Enhance the Scientific Research and technological capabilities. For example, higher r d spending by states and those that are really investing in innovation are creating new enterprises and new jobs. The United States is a little better but we pride ourselves on being number one in the world. This is spending on research and development as a percentage of gdp. Look at all the countries that are now higher r d spenders in us. Israel, sling, japan, austria, denmark, france, why are we falling behind us so much when this is supposed to be our specialty in this country goal number seven, clean air, water and energy. Target one that all new Energy Investments by 2030 should be in clean, save energy. We are not investing in clean, safe energy right now that all of your states have tremendous solar and wind potential, many with hydroelectric potential, some with geothermal potential but were not trying and we have the number one hack in this country, world is moving to renewable energy. Thats the point, ladies and gentlemen. The state Innovation Exchange, this is your agenda and our agenda but truly it is americas agenda. We are proud to launch the goals here with you today. Thank you. [applause] lets hear it again for Jeffrey Sachs. [applause] the cofounder of the future now action im the one who drew the short straw but im very excited to speak with you today. Thank you for the incredible presentations and for having us here it is an honor. I remember how excited i was when you were founded three years ago. I was in the state senate at the time in new york and it was such an exciting mission to see what has come so thank you for your years of incredible work. They asked me at the conference last year the likelihood of being up here anything other than a state senator i would have said