The Circuit Court as they go up to the supreme court. The area that is most likely to percolate up is not another pregnancy case then this issue of coverage theres been either makes decisions at the District Court level, not a lot of the Appellate Court ruling but they have started to bring more litigation just last week they filed the first two cases alleging that the discrimination so theres a lot of activity in that area and that a couple bad rulings on the issue of liability for harassment and just to show i think there are a lot of decisions being made under the new standard that are kind of all over the place. And so thats not the only thing that generally its when theres a lot of disagreement among the circuit. Thank you, joann, for writing this book. Plus the [applause] remember to buy multiple books. You can always find a friend that might want one. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the auditorium at the Cato Institute
[inaudible] question about this process is how a man comes back from this kind of devastation. Yeah, its been very interesting to see how its worked an the idea how this occurred. For instance, bison animals enter into the edges going in and this determined the way. And they found out that process is much more random than you would think. It depends on the time eve year and what animal happens to be around and which will cull nice that area and that becomes an island where other plants and animals can get that area as well. So you see a lot arounded the area and one feature is that the area now is is a diverse area in all of Washington State. If you just let these natural processes occur plants and animals entered into those areas a an attempt to come back. When you go to mount st. Helens it has this odd combination with a incredibly devastated area and yet vegetation is returning quickly to the mountain. It does have huge old growth forest around it and wont for another hundred years
Hosted. In washington, d. C. Good afternoon, welcome to the Cato Institute. Appreciate you coming out today. This is a really important topic. I have a book forum here for the the human cost of welfare by phil harvey and lisa conyers. For those folks following online you can follow along on twitter at catoevent or thehumancostofwelfare. The United States government spent roughly 688 billion dollars to fund more than 100 antipoverty programs. State and local governments spent an additional 300 billion on those and other programs. That means the government is spending close to a trillion dollars every year fighting poverty. If you want to go all the way back to 1965 when johnson declared war on poverty we have spent 2223 trillion dollars fighting poverty. But what have we really accomplished over that period of time . If you use the census bureaus officials poverty numbers poverty rates have barely budged. If you use the alternative poverty measures that are more accurate and take into a
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