Shows the way in which people are actually equally qualified can be put in an environment in which the context will do something within them that actually makes them perform less well than they would in another context and this been replicated in scores of studies. It applies not just to members of traditionally disadvantaged groups like women on difficult math test, for example. If you tell them nothing they will do as well as the men. If you remove that stereotype threat by saying, host of the time women dont do as well as men on difficult tasks but thats not true at this particular test the scores will be less. The same with white men playing basketball against the black man or white men doing against asians et cetera. So what would it mean to try to disrupt these processes of different creation . Well again, here i would have to refer to a lot of the social Science Literature but let me give you a few quick examples. First of all the rationale for affirmative action changes. Its no
Better gratitude to an american who invested in kids like me. I believe in that. [applause] i understand you spent much of the day talking about populism. I think it is the power of the people to change the country. In 2009 i was fighting hard for Financial Agency that would help level the Playing Field for families. Basically by preventing big banks are pushing people around, tricking them on credit cards and mortgages in payday loans. Of those and many people were involved in that fight. You may remember the biggest Financial Institutions were unenthusiastic about the Consumer Agency. How about dead set opposed and were spending more than 1 million per day for more than a order to Block Financial reforms generally and the Consumer Agency in particular. That was the targeted one. Able to fight back. We were able to fight back. Ecause of people like you people across the country who said i am in this fight, too. And because enough people got involved in the fight, we want. Financialood
I dont know what they are afraid of. They have 55 votes. This is not the way the senate used to operate. My members that the price of being the majority is that you have to get the minority roots votes to get the bill across the floor. We would look longer days work longer days and weeks using the clock is consensus. If a leader brings up the bill on monday and really wants to finish it, the fatigue factor is the best tool you have. Rather than try to shut everyone out and make everyone mad, you just run the clock and you say we are going to finish this thursday night, friday morning, friday night, or saturday morning. Is the hourpens gets later and later on thursday an amendment start disappearing. [laughter] the thought of what they have scheduled friday noon or friday night produces an incredible consensus. [laughter] to try to finish. Testing, you have to mean it. It does not shut anybody out. Amendments geoeye because go away because people get tired and nobody is bitter about it
I really want to thank bob and roger and that is a very lavish introduction. I wish my mom could have heard it. I was raised a teenage republican. Like saying youre a teenage werewolf. I know why i am a progressive. I will never forget my dad yelling at my mom. I dont mind that you became a democrat, i just dont know why you had to become a communist. [laughter] here you are. No now all of us have been in lots of cases where we have seen the data. We dont mind. We were in lots of fights were we did not have the majority of the public. We saw our job as talking to the public and getting the majority in favor of us. I want to really urge you to read the report the campaign for americas future has compiled, because we do not have to convince anybody. They are there. The key is to make the will of the people be heard. And i want to say to bob, highbury with everything you said. This is going to take a long time. Our job is to hurry history. They should not take a long time. In fact, we don
And others are among the speakers at the campaign for americas teacher new populism conference. The topics included job creation and trade policy. We begin with congressman ellison. This is over one hour. We are going to start this conference. Good morning. Come on, we are a bunch of populists. Lets have that again. That morning. Thats better. My name is roger hickey, and im codirector of the campaign for americas future. I want to welcome you to this new populism conference. New populism unites the growing majority of americans who know that the economic game is rigged against them. They know who rigged it, and we are using the political systemd to make the economy work for all americans. I also want to welcome all the people who are now watching across the country on cspan, at ourfuture. Org, streaming video at thenation. Com. Welcome. You are all part of this growing new populist movement. If one of those media goes down, just switch over to the other one. My campaign for americas f