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What Public Office have you held before, if you have and if so hello, welcome to all of those of you who braved the weather to come join us today and also to our online all of a sudden. We really appreciate you joining us. Im tara watson, i direct the center for Economic Opportunity here at brookings. I was asked to join a project. It was under the auspices of the convergence collaborative and the goal was to discuss policies to support working families and i quickly learned that this approach was really serious about bringing together people from across the ideological spectrum and about facilitating productive conversation so several dozen of us spent quite a bit of time for the past year producing a report. Youll hear a bit about that today, especially in the first panel bull then because the process was so unusual, i wanted to give people the opportunity to hear more about work across the spectrum more generally. So our second pan panel will be focusing on productive ways to do tha
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Good morning. My concern is about the 2024 election. I hope we do not have the same election we had in 2020 where everybody received billions of dollars hello . Go ahead. [applause] welcome, everyone. I am the managing director. Always a pleasure to have you back. Right now even more so on the eve of a Spring Meeting coming up and you are back from a trip to china. We talked about a lot of these things. Before i start i wanted to remind you we have a lot of people watching this virtually so i want to remind all of you who are watching this virtually that you can send in questions if you have any, you can send them in by email or two events or on the Youtube Channels you are watching this on or on twitter. Any of those ways will hopefully reach us in time. I am sure there are people in the audience who have questions. Before we get to the questions i have questions of my own. First of all, welcome. A great pleasure to have you here. Thank you for the invitation. I want to start, i dont