I think that moment a year ago was a wakeup call for all of us. A lot of soul searching occurred which is good and healthy. Re i think part of the approach weve taken in government youme where you could argue some of the same historic issues have been raised in terms of pipeline. Ou bui you know im very much in the if you build it they will come school, meaning if you send a g if y message from theou beginning of inclusion, if you insist in the hiring process that there be imum o maximum opportunity for ss inclusion, you find a lot more success at inclusion. Our entire tech team happens to m happ be women, including some women of color. Our administration thank you. Our administration as a whole in terms of senior jobs and our administration across all agencies is 53 women in Senior Management roles for the entire set new york city government. So i think it is quite available if the mindset of what is valued changes. I would argue this is not just about social responsibility or art in
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For healthcare policy. A great day to look at next steps for the nations Healthcare System. Thank you all for coming out so early. Thank you for joining us. Thank you cspan for welcoming the audience here to axios. We want to thank delta dental and jason don for sponsoring the event. Thank you all following online. Please use the axios 360 and we will get the conversation going online. Axios events are like all of the manifestations of axios. We bring information you can trust, information to help you make better decisions using smart gravity so that you can get smarter faster. We see that also with these events. We are honored to have three is at the center of this conversation were going to be here with us one on one. We hope that together we will have a tour of the landscape and also make some news and make you smarter. We can count on how many of those we do im going to welcome to the stage a axios healthcare reporter that has been in the capital at the center of this, all through
In the meantime, this is what im looking at. The euro having a little bit lower. Spain continuing to be on edge after its Prime Minister moved of thethe authority region. The nikkei up 1. 11 . Sent thees election region to elect to a record. Thats your market check. Lets get to the bloomberg first world news. Catalan separatists are meeting today to formulate their response. Catalan president is set to be ousted, but he vowed to fight on. His allies are signaling he could be declaring independence this week. Rex tillerson is calling on european allies to support new sanctions on iran. He is warning that companies doing business with tehran are doing so at their own risk. He was in riyadh for talks trying to bolster a new alliance between saudi arabia and iraq. Saudi arabia has rebuffed his requested in the fourmonth isolation of qatar. Mays efforts to get brexit legislation through parliament has hit a low new load lock new roadblock. Political political fragility was underlined by the
We have a very packed show. Quickly onto your data and onto your markets. This is how we are looking in terms of the picture. A little bit of the markets moving sideways. Im getting some of your Areas Service p. M. It is in line with estimates and it is what i am looking at. Overall, they are moving sideways and if you look at bonds, they are rising climbing on the back of will be did in saudi arabia. Those are the markets. We had a great guest lined up for you today. Will be speaking to the former president of the ecb. Wilbur ross joins me a little later today. We will talk about the tax plan and the paradise papers. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with nejra cehic. Nejra in the u. S. , 26 people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a church in texas. Another 20 were wounded in the attack at the First Baptist church, in a small town in burleson county. Victims ranged in age from five to 27 five to 72 years old. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe has announced lines