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To the conference this morning. Held under the under the auspice of common good and columbias center on and society. Nearby is philip howard, founder of common good and a senior fellow of the center. So were linked together. Hes a principal organizer of this conference with its theme reempower human Agency Agency as economists come to recognize for work to be meaningful, it has to working people some degree of. Not the mechanical work of in neoclassical economics. Without that the workers suffer, as Richard Sennett argued in his book of some years ago, the culture of the new capitalism. Philip...

Birth rate today of americans is 1. 64 children per woman. Thats not replacement that doesnt replace the population we have. The reality is we need workers. The mexican people that come here worked very hard. They take a lot of jobs in areas i know you have heard it. Now it can become a song for the movement of life. You can join hands with the organizations represented here. As we hope for an abortion free america. We shall overcome. Before i knew you, i formed you in the womb. Gods heart is for his children. We shall overcome. For the millions more that will be saved because of your advocacy...

Like. Cspan, powered by cable. The radio and Television Correspondents association hosted their annual dinner in washington dc, honoring journalist covering congress. Nbc. Its. Reid now whos gay gonna stand at that 10 minutes ago and whats up jay is that a psl, a Pumpkin Spice latte . S, i am drinking a Pumpkin Spice latte,nd its pretty good. Yeah, i am too. So, jared, why are you here . Well, im here for the artsy dinner. Its the tryouts to be th host. I mean, i think weve got our work cutut for us. Look at this list. I dont even know any of these people. Who the heck is tyler fisher . Man, i...

But when you think of d. C. , you mostly think of dead white guys, am i right . Like washington, jefferson, lincoln. Well, guess what. Latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latintinged music] in fact, Latinx Heroes Have fought in every war for the United States for centuries. This goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. American forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by A Young Venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. And then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. Almost half of t...

More than 20,000 hispanics served. Almost half of them were mexicanamerican, and that was only 13 years after the mexicanamerican war. Now wheres the monument for that . Huh . Huh . Huh . Now, today, nearly 20 of the u. S. Population is latin, and our numbers are growing. Our voting power is growing too, and about one in ten votes are being cast by latinos, and yet we still make up less than 2 of our elected officials, but the good news is, we do have some prominent figures, like alexandria ocasiocortez, veronica escobar, Ritchie Torres, and alex padilla. And theyre in good company, because la...