I want to note our deep appreciation to the ford foundation, prudential financial, walmart, the Cigna Foundation and the Mastercard Center for growth for the support of opportunity in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we focus on advancing strategies, policies and ideas to help working people and Small Businesses thrive. Working people and Small Businesses are facing extraordinary challenges today with over 26 million recently applied for Unemployment Benefits and millions of Small Businesses at risk of closing for good. At the Economic Program we recognize for too long, race, ethnicity, gender and race have played out side role in who has access to opportunity and to a shutout. We see today black and latino workers being most affected by unemployment, and by the health risks that come with being classified as an essential worker. We see black and latino owned Small Businesses facing much greater vulnerability to the economic devastation of covid19 and more challeng
Matter which is how much risk could the u. S. Government take in building out broadband and any sort of utility and is it acceptable for the u. S. Government to build Internet Access and communities knowing that it might fail sometimes and that millions of dollars might be lost . Potentially. It could happen. In other communities its wildly successful and thats what members of congress havent figured out just yet. What comes next with your story . What are you watching for . Were watching to see if members of Congress Bring down the hammer on the agency. The 2014 farm bill that was passed while the stimulus was going gave the agency more money to continue lending and failed to provide loans and grants to rural communities. Not most recent bill the rules were tightened to affix some of the problems and folks werent sure if the lessons had been learned from the federal stimulus. Already some members of congress are talking about it. Congressman greg walden has brought up this issue and d
Unmanned aerial drones are allowed to deploy in theater but 99 infantry units. Theyre only allowed to stay back with artillery units. There is still even amongst the most advanced countries in overcoming these hurdles, hurdles still remain. So its a little bit naive to think that all these issues are going to go away immediately in part because a lot of these developments are tactically driven. And so im very excited that came up as a point of conversation. My own Research Deals primarily with irregular armed groups, rebel groups, et cetera. Insurgencies. And what weve seen is that a lot of the developments in developing world military, so for example the Sri Lankan Military formed an all womens unit in response to the high levels of female participation in the tamil insurgency in sri lanka. So the degree to which these developments are being externally driven from our engagement in conflicts like iraq and afghanistan versus internally driven through changes in American Culture or perc
Was the greatest nation in history because our people believed into things. That tomorrow could be better than today, and that everyone has a perfect personal responsibility to work to that end. For your Public Service as general,s attorney governor, and former president of the united states, for your continued philanthropic work across the globe with the the collegedation, on nurse your achievements. We thank you for your optimistic vision and for always reminding america to never stop thinking about tomorrow. Therefore, it is my distinct pleasure by the authority of the board of trustees, to bestow on William Jefferson clinton this ,egree, dr. Of humane letters together with all the privileges and obligations thereto pertaining. Congratulations, mr. President. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, to deliver our commencement address, 42nd president William Jefferson clinton. [applause] president clinton president gearan, mary, your wonderful daughters, i thank you for bringing me here the
Human letters. [applause] William Jefferson clinton, 42nd president of the united states, born in the aptly named city of hope, arkansas, to a recently widowed mother and raised by a caring grandfather with a high school education. Inspired to Public Service as a teenager by president john f. Kennedy, and taught by his own College Professor that america was the greatest nation in history because our people believed in two things that tomorrow could be better than today, and that everyone has a personal responsibility to work to that end. For your Public Service as arkansass attorney general, president and the 42nd of united states, for your continued philanthropic work across the globe with the clinton foundation, hobart and William Smith colleges honors your Public Service and achievements. And we thank you for your optimistic vision and for always reminding america to never stop thinking about tomorrow. [laughter] therefore, it is my distinct pleasure, by the authority of the board o