We are having this discussion because low wage workers in the Fast Food Restaurant have paved been fired to raise the wages of themselves than their coworkers. That is the only way to get out of the drop that justins analysis hypothesizes. I think to ask a question about Public Policy measures, be they minimumwage kerrmcgee rtc labor and unemployment, you have to ask the question, are they are promoting a high wage lowwage society . We dont like the lowwage society but weve consciously built one and we can make different choices if we wanted different. Michael, did you want to come in . I will be brief. To think about it from the broad 30,000foot level of society to recognize the different agents in society have been responsibilities. Imagine workers firms in the government. In some sense, damon is arguing that we dont miss the lowwage system. If you talk about fast food industries, restaurants and lowwage workers, it is simply unrealistic to expect that a firm that is substantively tr
Joseph morton. Washington bureau chief for the omaha world herald and National Press Club Membership secretary. John rosen berg, Strategic Advisor on african policy. Christopher demuth fellow at Hudson Institute and a guest of our speaker. Angela keene a Bloomberg News White House Correspondent and former president of the National Press club. Maggie jaffey assistant to our speaker and her guest today. Donna, reporter for u. S. A. Today. And a former president of the national please club. Skipping over the speaker for a moment. Doris margolis, president of Editorial Associates health and Science Communications and the npc member who arranged todays program. Thank you doris. Michelle carter. Vicevice president for Worldwide Speakers Group and a guest of our speaker. Paul, National Security reporter for u. S. News and world report and a Third Generation member of the National Press club. Joel whitaker. Editor and publisher of canes beverage news daily and the former secretary of the Natio
Booktv. Org bookclub. President ial historian tevi troy examines the Popular Culture that american president s have partaken in over the past 200 years from Andrew Jacksons interest in attending the theater to the Reading Habits of dwight eisenhower. He speaks on a panel with jonah gold burg, William Galston and political analyst and columnist mona charen. This Panel Discussion is just under two hours. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Im chris demuth, fellow here at the Hudson Institute, and i will be moderating this afternoons session in which we will be recognizing and celebrating and discoursing upon tevi troys new book, what jefferson read, ike watched and obama tweeted 200 years of Popular Culture this the white house. With a title like that, you might expect that the book is a parade of ton and entertaining stories about president s idiosyncratic tastes in reading, theater, music, sports, movies, tv, or maybe its more than that, maybe its a study of decline [laughter] from a
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Otherwise, i dont feel that they really represent clinical approaches or ideas about illness that are grounded in science. Cspan well, you can see them on a regular basis on public television. First of all, what do you know about any of them . Guest i know that Christine Northrup did, in fact, have a pbs special and she wrote a book called womens bodiesmy gosh, im blanking on it, butand itshe had wide, wide viewership. And, in fact, all three of them, Deepak Chopra and i believe andrew weil as well have had specials on pbs. So thats a huge viewership. And their books are bestsellers. So clearly, they appeal to people. But some of the messages that they put out, i think are, as i said, not really grounded in experimental work. They talk about therapies that have not been proven. And Christine Northrup in particular is put forth as a Womens Health expert, and yet, some of the truisms that she was putting forth reminded me of sort of a bad parody of freud. What she said, for example, was