Challenges in the Construction Industry is recruit female workers but our program we feel we run it Better Compare today the industry we are successful have 15 percent of trainees are female. 40 percent is African American. Since our Training Center is based in the bayview we have a lot of residents from the bayview but see a wide spread of residents across the itsy. Bayview is a large group and the accessier district a lot of blue caller residents live there where you can live and afford to work in the Construction Industry. We see data on the Training Program and then about 30 percent are Asian American and then about 25 percent are latino and the rest are other. They are not baby boomers . No, they are not baby boomers. The past 3 years we have seen increase in the youth population, transitional age youth 18 to 24. We have a lot of strong out pch weech in the school district. A lot of resident that graduate from high school may not go to college and we want to provide the option, if
To this book, when we fight, we win. They helped put this collaboration together. We have artists and all sorts of movements including climate change, black lives matter and a whole bunch of other social clinical political movements that are so important. I will let him tell you more about who is with us tonight. There will be a performance as well and he will tell you more of all of the stuff that is happening. The book, if you havent seen it yet, please, please check it out. Its beautiful. There is art and personal stories and all kinds of things with tons of great interviews. It is not to be missed. We are so thrilled to have them here for the launch of this book. Please welcome greg jobinleeds. [applause]. Good evening. All right, so before i get started, im going to take a moment to ground us. Here we are, and i want to take a moment to take a breath and bring in all the people whose on shoulders you stand. Im thinking especially for me about Martin Luther king and my father. Im s
That snow will be winding down late morning in to the midday. Theyre looking at basically a trace to maybe an inch or two, best chance for higher accumulations, totals will be south and east of new york city. Monmouth, middlesex, and ocean counties. A light at the end of the tunnel, a big time spring warmth coming up next week. Pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears when a man with a gun choked and robbed a 92yearold woman. When a Good Samaritan stepped in to help, he robbed that person too. N. J. Burkett live from park slope, brooklyn with more on a heartless mugger. Heartless is the word. And tonight that suspect is believed to be the same man who attacked and robbed the 71yearold woman here in brooklyn three weeks ago. That robbery, like this latest one, happened in the middle of the afternoon. Of course im afraid. Is 92 years old and shes terrified tonight. Detectives say she was walking home from her local library in the middle of the day and had no idea she was being followed by a 250
This whole digital revolution. So it used to be that there was a stationary screen and with hdtv that was a big screen in the living room. But with the internet and the reless world extending things, now you have tab lets wifi all phones and over the place. Such that tv is not just a stationary leanback experience in the living room but very much of a mobile experience wherever you want to go. And its also video. The Brookings Institution recently released a study place such that tv is not just a ationary leanback with suggestions on how to make Financial Services more accessible around the globe. Last week the Brookings Institution host add discussion on that study. Good morning. E have set up a twitter feed so we would welcome any comments that you have on that. Globely there are about 2 billion individuals who suggestions on do not accounts. This and identify opportunities to broaden access to Financial Services. E examine four dimensions commitments make a difference in terms of pr
Preliminary scoping just to see how far down the budget we would be able to get . So in march we would like to come back with the plan okay with the 15. 5 Million Dollars this is the number of playgrounds we think we could do in the first effort and the schedule for those. I think the other main piece of the feedback from the Task Force Committee which was mostly at the last meeting that we rebrand this program and while failing playgrounds sells gets you votes for bonds its not necessarily the inspiring title that you need to engender stewardship and commitment over the longterm. I was unable to singlehandedly able to come up with a rebrand between the Task Force Meeting and today and i will work with the Task Force Members and when we come back in march with the Delivery Plan we could have a compelling title and compelling and inspiring title for the program we could use Going Forward so with that i am happy to take any questions or feedback. Commissioner mcdonnell. Thank you mr. Cha