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But theyll be ushered in. Good afternoon and welcome to the Aspen Institute. On behalf of the Strategy Group and the Rural Development Innovation Group, i want to thank you for joining us for this lunchtime dialogue series. Americas rural opportunity. I want to thank all the people in the room here, in washington, d. C. , with us, as well as the hundreds of the people Live Streaming and those of you watching on cspan3. So i am i wonder how many there are. Im janet topolsky. Im executive director of the Aspen Institute strategies group. What we do here at aspen usg is we do a lot of work out in...

Test test test. Test test test. With us from the South Carolina association for Economic Development. Bernie . Thank you and welcome. I bring you greetings from warmer climates where there are Smiling Faces and beautiful places. [ laughter ] South Carolina is a great place to be. We have urban and rural areas that definitely have slight differences. In South Carolina, the Unemployment Rate in our 11 most distressed and rural count iies averages 12 , this is twice that of the more developed and you are urbanized counties. Our three most prosperous counties is home to 40 of the states Bank Depos...

North american infrastructure debt at black rock, susan gray and david nassan. [applause] thank you, kevin we have hard act to follow. The administration has really prioritized a big boost to Infrastructure Spending on the order of a trillion dollars, clearly thats a very big sum but also very much warranted. Public construction in this country has been declining for years and is now 1. 5 of gdp annually. Just to put that into context, western europe on average spends 2. 5 of gdp annually and china, closer to 8 of gdp. Any of you who have spent time on the roads and airports wont be surprised ...

Aye. Opposed . The minutes are adopted. Item 3, directors report. Director garcia. Good afternoon commissioners. The directors report is somewhat a small today, but the one item i did want to share with you is that the San Francisco board of supervisors enacted a resolution on april 11 charging the department of Public Health with convening a task force to develop recommendations on operation of safe Injection Service in San Francisco. The department will bring together Diverse Group of phenyl stakeholders to consider ponel opportunities obstacles with sfr vised consumption uvs and the Communi...

Minutes . Any corrections . If not, then we will vote on the minutes as edited. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed . The minutes are adopted. Item 3, directors report. Director garcia. Good afternoon commissioners. The directors report is somewhat a small today, but the one item i did want to share with you is that the San Francisco board of supervisors enacted a resolution on april 11 charging the department of Public Health with convening a task force to develop recommendations on operation of safe Injection Service in San Francisco. The department will bring together Diverse Group of...