Would greatly appreciate that. Okay thank you all, thank you alsouch. Hope you will stay in touch with each other. Okay byebye. And we wrap up our coverage of the recent brooklyn book festival and author discussion on multiethnic representation and publishing. Hi, i am suzanne im the ceo of penn america delighted to welcome you beyond prepositional politics and publishing. Assist in moderating this important discussion. We believe that the historic exclusion of certain people invoices from publishing is very much a Free Expression issue. Something that we can and must tackle as an organization with a mission to defend free speech. We work to up lift lesser heard voices those of the incarcerated, incarcerated, unseen in our program and we also bring together wide ring of stakeholders authors, publishers, editors need executives to discuss boundaries and how to break them down. So we have long been engaged in the debate concerning diversity and equity and publishing. And now, as the Unit
All right. If we can get our seats. Its kind of hard to break off the conversations. Its always so good to meet people. But weve got to get back to work. We hear a lot about how dangerous the u. S. Empire is. We learn about how were making enemies overseas. We learn about how immoral it is to bomb people overseas, but theres something that we also really need to, and this is a good argument to make by some people who arent swayed by the others and that is that the u. S. Empire is a big ripoff. It costs a lot of money and gives us very, very little in return and so thats why were really pleased to bring in someone who can speak to you, been reading and wright and lecturing for a while now and hes part of the next generation of intellectuals. He spoke yesterday at our student seminar and did a terrific job, and thats Nathan Goodman who is finishing his phd at George Mason University in economics, and he is a specialist in the economic of empire. Nathan, happy to have you join us. [ appla
All right. If we can get our seats. Its kind of hard to break off the conversations. Its always so good to meet people. But weve got to get back to work. We hear a lot about how dangerous the u. S. Empire is. We learn about how were making enemies overseas. We learn about how immoral it is to bomb people overseas, but theres something that we also really need to, and this is a good argument to make by some people who arent swayed by the others and that is that the u. S. Empire is a big ripoff. It costs a lot of money and gives us very, very little in return and so thats why were really pleased to bring in someone who can speak to you, been reading and wright and lecturing for a while now and hes part of the next generation of intellectuals. He spoke yesterday at our student seminar and did a terrific job, and thats Nathan Goodman who is finishing his phd at George Mason University in economics, and he is a specialist in the economic of empire. Nathan, happy to have you join us. [ appla
The Committee Welcomes order. Witnesses. Me the we are here to have testimony from a range of industries that tell us about the importance of the United States, mexico, Canada Agreement and we prefer that to usmca. Fromok forward to hearing witnesses about the significance of the agreement to American Business both small and large, the workers and farmers we all represent. Thank you for being here. Canada, and mexico, our countrys most important trading partners. Americasone third of merchandising went to mexico and canada. Nearly half 1 trillion in American Goods the year. The foundation of our strong praise relationship with mexico and canada has been thus far nafta. The United States negotiated and agreement between 1990 1993 and at the time it was a Gold Standard of trade agreements. It enabled American Businesses, workers, farmers and ranchers is andanges without tariffs nontariff barriers and for decades, burdened our ability to compete in those two countries. Andourse, the u. S.
You today to testify on the president s trade jaeagenda ande newly renegotiated United States mexico canada agreement. I would like to begin by notie ingnoteing that the American Economy is growing well. Were growing substantially faster than any other g7 country. We added 5. 8 million jobs since the 2016 election. Notab notably, 500,000 of those jobs are in manufacturing. The Unemployment Rate of 3. 6 is the lowest in half a century and has been at or below 4 for 15 consecutive months. Hourly wages were up some 3. 1 over the last 12 months. And contrary to what one hears, exports are growing. Indeed, 2018 was the highest year in our history for exports of both goods and services. While agricultural exports in 2018 were not the highest in history, they were up over 2017 and 2016. Im pleased to present the trade policy agenda at the 2018 annual report of the committee. This document, which u. S. Put out usgr put out recently outlines the administrations trade priorities and catalogs rec