Implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Youll notice there is one empty seat, and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately, because of the crazy weather we had in d. C. , trish is not going to be able to get into town, so she will not be with us. But fear not, our three other panelists watch whats happening in the states very closely and will be able to give us a full picture of whats happening. First, to my left, we have diane rowland, executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family foundation. She was also the inaugural chair of mac pac, which advises congress on policy. To her left is josh archambault, who spent time with the heritage foundation, and hes up in massachusetts where he also worked for former governor mitt romney. And at the end of the panel we have judith solomon, Vice President for Health Policy at the center on budget and policy priorities. I wont go into further detail. You have their full bios in your packet.
Cable or satellite provider. All month, we are featuring our studentcam winners in cspans video documentary competition for middle and high school students. This year, students told us the most urgent issue for the new president and congress. Our second Prize Middle School winners are three eighth graders from concord, massachusetts. Charlotte lisa, caroline drapeau, and cara fritz, eighth graders at nashoba brooks school. Their documentary on the gender wage gap is entitled gauging the wage gap. 10,876 is a lot of money that could purchase roughly 2000 starbucks coffees, and 75 luxury handbags. 10,876 could also purchase eight months of rent for a luxury apartment. It could buy ingredients for 853 homecooked meals and could pay for 64 essential doctor visits. It is the average amount of money a woman in the gender wage gap does not receive for a fulltime job over the course of a year. The gender wage gap is an ageold issue that has existed since men and women have both been a part of
Cable or satellite provider. All month, we are featuring our studentcam winners in cspans video documentary competition for middle and high school students. This year, students told us the most urgent issue for the new president and congress. Our second Prize Middle School winners are three eighth graders from concord, massachusetts. Charlotte lisa, caroline drapeau, and cara fritz, eighth graders at nashoba brooks school. Their documentary on the gender wage gap is entitled gauging the wage gap. 10,876 is a lot of money that could purchase roughly 2000 starbucks coffees, and 75 luxury handbags. 10,876 could also purchase eight months of rent for a luxury apartment. It could buy ingredients for 853 homecooked meals and could pay for 64 essential doctor visits. It is the average amount of money a woman in the gender wage gap does not receive for a fulltime job over the course of a year. The gender wage gap is an ageold issue that has existed since men and women have both been a part of
Audience at to please make that last little check of your cell phone. Make sure that they will not interrupt the preceding today. We will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report on Big Government policies that hurt before and how to address them. Is a very states compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or another. We have welfares programs shall welfare spending that adds up to well over a trillion dollars these days and i can be in things like health care, direct income support at one time or another. We are not here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of the Government Policies, those of that are put in place for what seemed to be on the surface very wellmeaning purposes and in fact they made the necessary policies of one kind or another for government they may be necessary policies of
Program and executive Vice President at Kings College in new york city Brian Brenberg is here, you have a lot of fans on social media. Thats good, thank you for finding it out for me. Harris i do not mean to say it like it is not a good thing. Brian yes, friends and enemies, its great to be here. Harris lets get to the news, shall we . Treasury secretary steve emma nguyen announcing his decision not to attend an upcoming Investor Conference in saudi arabia. This is investigations continue into the disappearance and alleged killing of the saudi columnist. Secretary of state mike pompeo and President Trump wrapped up a meeting at the white house just a short time ago. The secretary says he told the president to give the saudis have few more day to complete their investigation before making any decisions on how to respond. Democrats are focused elsewhere, Patrick Leahy and eight of his democratic colleagues sent letters to the president and the Trump Organization yesterday requesting a fu