Wages that workers have finally won, and then on the a few days i have to say because kirk is here, we had april maises can, surprising decision out of the Supreme Court yesterday on texas abortion restrictions and that was fantastic, but last also yesterday we had the court decided not to grant review of the homecare rule, which is another fight that the Ford Foundation has supported, and other organizations, for 20, 30 years. Finally, Homecare Workers in the country are guaranteed the right to a federal fair minimum wage and overtime pay. 2 million workers went to bed last night knowing that for the first time in for the first time they have the same rights that most other American Workers take for granted. We would not have this is we didnt have Good Government supporting the work that unions like seiu and the people in the groups in this room have been doing to take advantage of this moment. So, im really im discouraged when look around and i come from the Labor Movement, when i th
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Eduardo began his career in journalism over 20 years ago as a financial reporter and since then he has written for many parts of the globe including mexico and brazil, japan and the United Kingdom and further. More recently he served as a member of the times Editorial Board on related matters and today he writes back of that economic, for the time. Atwaters background help explain his unique analytics skills and he has a degree in physics and quantum field and fundamental forces. I have no idea what that means, but ive always been very impressed by it. So, welcome jim and eduardo. [applause]. Thank you for those kind introductions. As, i think, you just heard, my book deals with five topics, any one of which could be a lecture of this length, but only one of them sits the purpose of list and only one if its the time allotted to nine, so tonight im going to talk about one of the five topics im really interested in and that is inequality, so ours is an exceptional society, admirable for
And tom keene in new york. Tom yes. Ill agree with that. Within the last 24 hours ive seen a real shift. Some of the turmoil with off the german industrial production, a little more Market Movement today than what we saw yesterday. Francine yes. Heres taylor rigs. Taylor . Roir yes, the in danger of falling apart according to people familiar with the matter prosecutors are considering a charge related to the conduct on the Foreign Exchange desk. Hey have essentially been on probation since 2012. After helping the Mexican Drug Cartel and iran. Prime minister teresa may is getting pressure from banks to strike an interim deal with the European Union before formal talks begin. And germanys chancellor Angela Merkel is revising her open door paul for refugees and said the government has done everything e can about the refugees and the United Nations security county critical has condemned north carolinas latest missile launches and is threatening further measures if they do not stop. North c
You will see the fantastic schedule. Authors will not necessarily be on immediately after the Panel Suggests check the author name and time on the brochure. We are delighted to have cspan broadcasting live this morning so welcome to jackson. The panel will also be shown at october so if you want to review it again. Thank you for the state legislature for the use of the facilities today and also the authors and moderators for being with us this morning. The first panel was sponsored by the university of mississippi friends of the university library. Now i will introduce the Panel Moderator this morning from mississippi who received her ba from Stanford University and from the university of michigan. She served as the resident in mississippi and was the author of the novel where the line we goboth won the National Book awd for fiction. Shes also the editor of this new book just out this month. We are at work as the associate professor writing at Tulane University she lives in mississippi