Where the need is there, but strong organizations exist and they are in partnership with the mayors. Mayors offices have become idea centers. Where should we be putting our resources . Some of those areas this comes at a national level, but it is so much more important for us to drill down to the local level. There are teams we can work with. We are finding amongst our best talent coming out of citi administrations. It is something we can replicate and we should scale. One of the areas, and i think the secretary spoke to the idea of really blitzing specific areas of greatest needs with alignment and coordination. When i think of that, one of the areas weve been working a lot around, working with small business, getting financed to them. We work with the chicago teams on building the chicago micro finances. How do you replicate the work that important groups are doing in san diego, san antonio, new york . How do we bring scale to that . It takes a leadership of the Mayors Office as well
Failures of the startups sector of the one in the world i would direct you to him. But what i do know from the data is there is a large regional component. Not just to the u. S. But also very strong in the United States where you find failures in the bay area like San Francisco is frequent but fargo were outside of that. If it is the market youre interested in but with those survival rates they tend to be a lot greater. There is a regional component. What are the actual cultural drivers and have that help you to determine fiscal policy. So what we like to look at is one of the scary things is in putting capital into zero markets that attract talent it is very difficult. Said you have to hire them for a very long time and with a very specific skills said eliminates your ability to change your stage of growth with any degree of success so that means there is capital infusion. Vc will be set up to lose their money so in europe it is with the european governments should be far more worried
And amtrak covered 80 of its operating costing gained passengers on all routes even longdistance trains that traditionally hamper the bottom line it with the Bush Administration tried to cut. The Brookings Institution report said it had increased 85 of ryders ship more than doubled the growth from the aviation sector. That is nowhere more clear than the corridor that has gained traffic from the airline shuttle. On a good day they can complain about spotty wife fiat war on bad days they could be stranded for hours when e equipment fails in winter weather. Prior to his appointment that mr. Boardman was a booster of the federal Railroad Administration regulating safety for a contract and all others in the United States. Before dash he served as commissioner of the new York State Department of trees rotation in 1997 ready was the organization mont is serving commissioner is served in the u. S. Air force began in 1968. He enrolled at Cornell University where he earned the decree would expec
Ocean, desert and i said definitely ocean. Desert will kick up radioactive dust and pose a danger to the community. They said fantastic. They called me back a week or two later and said we looked into it. Its too expensive to fill the test so we have to crash the plane in the desert. Can you come up with a reason that we shouldnt put it in the ocean . And decide what about making sure we dont harm fish . I said what about saying theyre visiting the area and this would cause an International Integration . Are the with the fish . [laughter] the lesson you should take from this is television advisers, and dramas do not have a lot of influence. [laughter] on behalf of the council and everyone here tonight, thank you for speaking. [applause] due to the recent discussion on student loan rates in congress, for the next hour book tv brings you portions of author presentations about the cost of Higher Education. We start with a panel from june that included William Bennett come author of is Col
Bob will speak on innovative publicprivate partnerships. Thank you very much. I will try to be brief. I think of it as a bit of an onlution in the way we Work Community development are increasingly heading. For years, housing has been a cornerstone of the work that many banks have done in Community Development. Iti, it has been an anchor. In terms of the work that many institutions have has been supported by the Community Reinvestment act. As important as it is, sometimes it traps funds in geographies where it is needed, but we cannot go beyond that. Institutions go where and do that sort of investing more it is greatest need, not where there is just a regulatory incentive to do it. Housing has been a cornerstone of our work and secretary him. An, we worked with building innovation. One of the things about Community Development has been that it has been very cylert. Sikloed. Often, it was directly with Community Organizations not necessarily in consultation or alignment with the Mayors