Greenhouse. He was a reporter for the New York Times for 31 years. He spent his last 19 years as their labor and workplace reporter covering topics ranging from poverty among the nations farm workers to fight for 15 to disasters in bang la tesh. He is author of the Award Winning book the big squeeze, tough times for the american worker. Please give a warm welcome to mr. Steven greenhouse. [ applause ] good evening. Welcome, everyone, to this evening interesting and Important Panel discussion. It is so bright here, i forgot my sunglasses. Sorry. Were discussing a very hot topic, made hotter by the current president. Does globalization only serve elites. Globalization is, of course, in the news. President trump has railed against it, even as Chinese Companies are offering to invest 400 million in the fifth avenue building owned by his soninlaws family. Thats an example of globalization. We see article after article about how globalization has hurt workers in youngstown, dayton and detroi
Proposal to reverse the mistake of title 2 and return to the light touch Regulatory Framework that served our nation so well during the clinton administration, the Bush Administration and the first six years of the obama administration. Tonight on the communicators we ask jeffrey, director of the center for International Communications and Technology Policy at the American Enterprise institute and chris lewis, Vice President at Public Knowledge their thoughts on the impact of the proposal. We think that the rules that we got in 2015, the Net Neutrality rules are working. Theyre wildly popular. Overwhelming majority of americans want to have clear rules of the road so were concerned hes gone down a path to review and potentially even repeal some or all of those rules. From the internets inception until the day the rules were passed internet was free and open. There wasnt a problem. As chairman pai said there was no disto to reuse the applica or look at the koent u content of their choic
Rosa devoted her career to fighting for working families. Shes fought and i know because i fought alongside her for part of that time for raising the minimum wage, giving employees access to sick days and allowing workers to take family and medical leave. Shes been passionate on issues of equal pay for equal work. Shes been fighting recently tooth and nail to protect the aca for fair trade. I will tell you some of you may not know about rosa is if she has your cell phone number, shell call you. Nutrition and ge getting to the point to have days conversation, shes been working on this issue of child allowance or at least fully refundable tax credit which is pretty equivalent for many years. She is not a newcomer to this debate. And, in fact, people may not know this. Its a great little trivia point for those in the child allowance world is that thanks to rosa the Congress Actually voted on an amendment in 2003. Im old enough to remember on a fully refundable Child Tax Credit and the ame
But really when the media and the country and the rest of washington takes their assessment of a president and they say its very hard to make a good second impression or you have to make that good First Impression. So the First Impression of how a president is going to govern is established in those 100 days. Host you come at it from a interesting perspective because youre a president ial historian but high level cabinet figure. Whats it like to get this whole thing started and the administration started and to keep going and adhere to the guidelines you made when you were running. Tevi its very difficult. I also ran the policy for transition in mitt romneys campaign and didnt obviously become a new administration. But theres so much to think about and so many roles you have to fill that you need to start way in advance and why Congress Passed a law in 2010, the pretransition act that establishes transitions for both parties leading into an election so that you dont just have from nove
Uygur, host of the young turk. Welcome back to the table. Guest thank you. Host who are the young turk . Guest we are the longest just Largest Online news network in the world. Progressive ase you will see throughout today, but it is not just about politics. We have 30 channels. Host what does it mean to be so big . Guest it is fascinating. No matter where i go people recognize me. It is wonderful. People do not come up to plumbers and say, great job on the plumbing but they come up to me all the time. There is some haters but that is life for me. Host the president s first 100 days in office, how is he doing . Guest horrific, just terrible. He is not getting any of his promises done, which thank god, because i do not agree. As i warned anyone everyone in the election, thorough incompetence. Whether it is Foreign Policy in a situation like north korea, or domestic policy where his incompetence is helping us. He cannot repeal obamacare. If he cannot get these tax cuts through, that will