Readers. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is john allen, president of the Brookings Institution and it is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating andre perrys release of his new book know your price, valuing black lives, across brookingss roughly 104 year history brookings has taken powerful positions on issues of race, equality and civil rights. These issues stand at the top of brookings qualities and i have made this president ial priority, certainly for the institution. Brookings not only made an obligation to study these issues but it is also the responsibility of the organization as well, to examine the intersection of race and policy not just because we are an organization deeply committed to the public good but also because we are an organization based in washington dc, the nations capital. As much as washington is a city of politics it is also a city of great diversity, of the roughly 700,000 residents the call the city home, one need only wa
[background noises] think you guys so much. Thank you for being here. Im Lisa Freedman report on the some reporter for the New York Times and im very gratefulul to have 2dollar pans beginning with this one that is really going to drill down into a lot of the things that are covered. First let me introduce our panel all the way to my far right that director at the center and regulation markets at the Brookings Institution. The bernard l. Schwartz chair of policy development and the fellow in economic studies at berkeley and the fellow for the initiative for disabled energy policy. Adie tamer in the center is a senior fellow at Brookings Metro and an expert on infrastructure policy and urban economics. With a particular focus on transportation and digital technology. He hedine is working to better understand infrastructure policies from theic federal levl and how they Impact Economic Development social prosperity and and directly to my left Glenn Rudebusch a senior nonresident senior fel
Thank you for being here. Im Lisa Freedman report on the Climate Change in the new york times. I am very grateful to have two stellar panels beginning with this one thats going to drill down into a lot of things david and jon just covered as a director and markets are the Brookings Institution the schwartz chair and Economic Development and studies in brookings. The initiative for Sustainable Energy policies on hopkins university. In the Center Senior fellow at Brookings Metro is it expert it infrastructure policy and urban economics. Particular focus on transportation Digital Technology issues. Is working to better understand how infrastructure policies the federal to the local level impact Economic Development social prosperitys environmental results directly to my left is a senior pardoning a non resident institution fiscal and Monetary Policy also a senior fellow at New York University and the volatility and recent years played a key role in choosing Climate Change considerations o
[background noises] think you guys so much. Thank you for being here. Im Lisa Freedman report on the Climate Change in the new york times. I am very grateful to have two stellar panels beginning with this one thats going to drill down into a lot of things david and jon just covered as a director and markets are the Brookings Institution the schwartz chair and Economic Development and studies in brookings. The initiative for Sustainable Energy policies on hopkins university. In the Center Senior fellow at Brookings Metro is it expert it infrastructure policy and urban economics. Particular focus on transportation Digital Technology issues. Is working to better understand how infrastructure policies the federal to the local level impact Economic Development social prosperitys environmental results directly to my left is a senior pardoning a non resident institution fiscal and Monetary Policy also a senior fellow at New York University and the volatility and recent years played a key role