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Participants raised their hands and said yes. Thats an arguable position. There are arguments for and against that. But the first question you need to answer in this as in any other policy proposal is what is this going to cost. And there simply hasnt been very much interest or exploration in this question x. So thats why were releasing the two papers were releasing today and having this panel discussion, is precisely to get a sense of what it could cost us. Not definitive, these are estimates. Maybe theyll be different. Other people have other estimates. Wed love to see them, but nobody reall...

Office growth. Its not at all connected to or analyzing the pipeline that we already have. Because we know that there are very large projects that are jumping all over each other to try to take whats available under prop m which is expected to at least in the next few years, in the near term, be a lot higher than much closer to the full prop m. I think the challenge we have now is having enough, year over year, because theres way more than the 950,000 that we have available. So i want to be clear the analysis is not connected to the actual pipeline that is existing now. Its based on the past a...

Today. Really appreciate you joining us here today. Thanks for coming out this morning. I think weve got a really exciting morning of discussion. First of all, brief introductions, im Whit Saumweber director of the stephenson ocean security project. We are a program thats focused on the intersection of marine sustainability challenges and National Security issues. And from my point of view, there is no better representation of that nexus than the issue of Climate Change and how its impacting our oceans and what that means for our broader world. A few weeks ago the ipcc released reports taking ...

The meat of the last recession and prior to it. So this panel is going to be a a bit of a History Lesson. Take this off depressingly wonderfully if we can say that as a phrase. Ive heard him speak a few times ive never had to be so negative so that is something to take into consideration. I cut it its got to be a bit of a History Lesson so i want to set the stage a bit for what was going on in the years in the months leading on so when the financial downturn started and so just a reminder of the Great Recession and thought it at the end of 2007 and i was the largest collapse in state revenue o...

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im john allen, the president of brookings and on behalf of the institution and our partners at Service Year Alliance, i want to welcome you all to this important event today. I want to welcome those coming in over the webcast and of course we always welcome the media. This morning youll be hearing from a distinguished group of leaders and volunteers on the matter of National Service. Let me make a few brief comments to begin with. In such divided and turbulent times, we must look for ways to bridge society, to bridge the divides and to restore a sense of com...