All right. I think well get started. Good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. Thanks for cspan for coming. My name is mark schmitt. Im the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america and all i want to do is welcome you to this discussion on race and solidarity in the United States and the future of solidarity as a way of thinking about thinking about race. This discussion was organized by ted johnson who has been a fellow in our National Fellows program and also a fellow in the Political Reform Program. His work on the complexity of black voting behavior and Political Attitudes has been eyeopening to me, and, you know, tremendously important. Hes now a fellow at the Brennan Center for justice which is an organization that as you can see, the signs here, its occasionally here. We often do things in partnership with the Brennan Center which is a wonderful organization and ted is bringing a bit of a of a nonlegal beyond legal, i guess he would say, scope of analysis to t
Home. The tone was set early on by china that barred big investors for selling listed shares for six months. The sharp move higher fell back to earth. The dow jones held on to a gain of 33 points. It had been up as much as 249. Nasdaq rose a dozen and the s p added 4. It was the unusual move in china that sent the shanghai composite up nearly 6 . We have more now from beijing. The Chinese Media talking about a National Sports team saying theyre truly taking action. The market rallied by 6 today. They enhissed state owned enterprises to stop selling shares. We also learned that police are investigating what they call malicious short sellers and they also already have said they found at least a dozen institutions well as some individuals who engaged in what they call the illegal practices. The investors here were relatively relieved by the rally and theyre still very cautious. Many of them are angry with the government. We saw protestors in small groups outside of the office. Many of the
Beijing and it was felt back home. The tone was set early on by china that barred big investors for selling listed shares for six months. The sharp move higher fell back to earth. The dow jones held on to a gain of 33 points. It had been up as much as 249. Nasdaq rose a dozen and the s p added 4. It was the unusual move in china that sent the shanghai composite up nearly 6 . We have more now from beijing. The Chinese Media talking about a National Sports team saying theyre truly taking action. The market rallied by 6 today. They enhissed state owned enterprises to stop selling shares. We also learned that police are investigating what they call malicious short sellers and they also already have said they found at least a dozen institutions well as some individuals who engaged in what they call the illegal practices. The investors here were relatively relieved by the rally and theyre still very cautious. Many of them are angry with the government. We saw protestors in small groups outsi
Home. The tone was set early on by china that barred big investors for selling listed shares for six months. The sharp move higher fell back to earth. The dow jones held on to a gain of 33 points. It had been up as much as 249. Nasdaq rose a dozen and the s p added 4. It was the unusual move in china that sent the shanghai composite up nearly 6 . We have more now from beijing. The Chinese Media talking about a National Sports team saying theyre truly taking action. The market rallied by 6 today. They enhissed state owned enterprises to stop selling shares. We also learned that police are investigating what they call malicious short sellers and they also already have said they found at least a dozen institutions well as some individuals who engaged in what they call the illegal practices. The investors here were relatively relieved by the rally and theyre still very cautious. Many of them are angry with the government. We saw protestors in small groups outside of the office. Many of the
Staff testified about the ssi disability program. And the process for filing disability claims. Sam johnson chairs the ways and means subcommittee on Social Security. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning to all of you. And welcome to todays hearing. On the challenges Social Security faces when deciding if a person should receive disability benefits. Since i have been chairman, we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to get it right. Americans pay taxes on their hard earned wages for the promise of future Social Security benefits. When the worker retires, and is unable to work unable to disability or dies. These benefits are an important part of a familys financial security. And americans rightfully expect that when they apply for benefits, if they are eligible, that they will receive them quickly. But for those