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Its a great day to be alive. Here at the Heritage Foundation i am so pleased to be able to introduce our speaker. From School Shootings and declining sunday attendance. Hyper partisanship and politics. And its tempting to turn off the tv to adopt the benedict option. That isnt what we are about here. That isnt the american way. He never surrendered without and despair even in a time of war or economic or cultural crisis americans have always risen to any challenge in our lives, liberty and happiness. Always there have arise had aria time of crisis men and women who call for the best in us into...

Welcome to brookings. My name is ron haskins, im the codirector along with Richard Reeves of the center on children and family serving brookings. Today we are releasing the 29th volume of the future of children. When i read that and we added these up, i almost died of exhaustion. It takes a lot to put these volumes up weve been doing this 10 or 11 years. This is the 27th policy brief. We have produced a lot of work. In this volume in policy brief we addressed vital issues of how to achieve broadscale impacts with social programs. We focused for several years on evidencebased policy, on develop...

committed. there are a whole host of influences on public policy and i spent 20 years in congress working on such things. i think one of the most important, if not the most important influence on policy matters is evidence. evidence for or against a proposition. a lot of people are skeptical of that these days. that skepticism isn't unwarranted, but i would caution against being too much of a synic. people see the partisan fights and think that nothing can move, knowing can do gone. ideology is not a bad thing, it's not a dirty world, it's a way to order the world in a cohesive cohes...

committed. there are a whole host of influences on public policy and i spent 20 years in congress working on such things. i think one of the most important, if not the most important influence on policy matters is evidence. evidence for or against a proposition. a lot of people are skeptical of that these days. that skepticism isn't unwarranted, but i would caution against being too much of a synic. people see the partisan fights and think that nothing can move, knowing can do gone. ideology is not a bad thing, it's not a dirty world, it's a way to order the world in a cohesive cohes...

next a former house speaker paul ryan talks about evidence faced policymaking and then joins a panel discussion on the issue. this is an hour and 20 minutes. morning everybody. thank you for coming out this morning. i want to thank people for being here because events like this can be quite dry. so to see a group of people here to attend it means you are all committed to this cause. and it is important that you are committed. there are a whole hosts of nuan influences. i spent years working in congress. that skepticism is not unwarranted. i would caution it. people see this massive...