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This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome. My name is maureen conway. Vice president at the Aspen Institute and executive director. I am delighted to welcome you to todays conversation in our working in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we do a lot a variety of work to advance ideas that will help low and moderate income americans connect to Economic Opportunity and thrive in a changing economy. In the working in america series in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of opportunity that working americans face and consider ide...

Expanding the earned income tax credit. At this event hosted by the Aspen Institute. All right, good afternoon, everybody. And welcome. My name is moyne conway, Vice President at the Aspen Institute and executive director of the Economic Opportunities program. And i am so delighted to welcome you to todays conversation in our working in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we do a lot of a variety of work to advance ideas that will help lower and med upincome americans. In the working in america series in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of oppo...

Expanding the earned income tax credit. At this event hosted by the Aspen Institute. All right, good afternoon, everybody. And welcome. My name is moyne conway, Vice President at the Aspen Institute and executive director of the Economic Opportunities program. And i am so delighted to welcome you to todays conversation in our working in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we do a lot of a variety of work to advance ideas that will help lower and med upincome americans. In the working in america series in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of oppo...

[drums and singing] [applause] [drums and singing] [applause] put those hands together for the west african dancers and drummers what a way to kickoff the celebration. Now time for our libation. [drums playing] the libation is our connection to the past and our roadmap to a better future. The purpose of libation is to remember and honor those who walked and worked before us and thus paved the path we now walk. We pour in the direction of the four winds, north, south, east and west. For africa and mother land and those known and unknown who defended our land in history. For ancestors who strugg...

But also we frequently think of Energy Efficiency in the context of investor and utility rate Payer Program seen by the commission. That is a huge important part of the Compliance Solutions that the we see but the other part, several non repair program so if you think about the amount of money spent on Energy Efficiency in the United States from the order of 50 billion including private sector investments consumers, utility investments, a longrange of things and the bulk of this is happening outside the ratePayer Programs and we want to make sure states and the opportunity to capture those ben...