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Thank you so much for joining us today. As mayors, we often say that our number one issue is jobs. Jobs, jobs, and jobs. Creating jobs. Supporting entrepreneurship and making sure the Jobs Available line up with the skills of our work force. So the entirety of this morning is going to be about what we as mayors can do and can be doing to support job creation and entrepreneurship in our communities, and for this session, we are going to begin with a conversation about the future of work and the dramatic changes in the ways that our residents relate to their jobs and to their physical work space...

Thank you for the opportunity to elude our new Automation Task force for the conference. Meetinghad a great talking about the different ways that automation will change our work as employers and enterprises, as policymaking bodies, as economies, and as communities. We are looking forward to convening again as a task force this spring and would welcome any mayors or partners who would like to be part of the conversation. Before we do that, we have an opportunity right here to talk about one of the most interesting and important questions not unrelated to automation that affects our work is mayo...

To create the perfect helmet. When the issue began to percolate in the early 90s in the nfl the nfl formed a committee to address this problem, the medical committee when it became quite suspect raid one of the things the committee did was suggest to people in this world that they were going to create the perfect helmet. They said we have all the money in the world. We will throw money into the problem and fix up the neuroscientists are expert in the field knew that was not the answer. They home it is good against protecting against skull fractures but could do nothing at this point to protect...

Controversial issue and one in which frequently theres forward more heat than light and where we frequently see people who seem to be immune to data. But we have experts tonight to talk about this, and it will be moderated by dr. David casarett who is chief of college of care at university of pennsylvania. Im a psychiatrist, and i often think most people including many physicians dont really understand what psychiatry is. Nobody understands what Palliative Care is, and its a wonderful branch of medicine and needs to be better understood. Dr. Casarett launched a book here a year ago that was wo...

Have your back in terms of all people in our country, including people of color. This spending bill, it does just the opposite. I hope the members will understand the message that were sending to communities of color in this bill and rectify some of the problems. You have a chance to reject further institutionization of any quality and injustice and recognize how painful these cuts will be to people of color and women. Im going to give you my examples and my amendment shows what im talking about. The jackson Lee Butterfield amendment, this would increase funding by 16 million for the office of...