So this is panel two. Thank you so much for coming. Take it away. Thank you ron and thanks to all of you for being here. My name is a. Im in policy studies at the American Enterprise institute. I work in tax policy labor markets. One of the areas ive recently been focusing on is paid family leave. As im listening to the conversation i think you know generally talking about paid leave and child care and how we reform the existing system in the u. S. Is very important to the conversation that we have here. Ive also written about the system of child care, the Child Tax Credit, the you know, the system of tax credits that we have and how much of it is queued toward people at the top. How people with the benefits doesnt go to the people with the lower income. This is part of a larger discussion how do we reform child care how to we make it more accessible to people at the bottom. The first panel was more about why we need these policies. Why are we even talking about universal child allowan
They would grow a beard if they thought it would help them win an election and they would not change their socks if they thought it would help them win the election and the transition went against that. It is now commonplace for people to think that it is the responsible thing to do to measure the drapes and figure out what they would do if they managed to prevail. And now the job of the transition project is to convince people that measuring the drapes and preparing to leave is the new equivalent of not changing your socks. Transition into todays topic for the panel. What it panel was about was like to transition the white house and this group of people have all walked into the white house on day one but another interesting aspect of the three people is that they have all walked out of the white house before the president walked out and to the executive branch where the mission of the administration also goes on. This panel will be a bit about walking into the building and what that e
This group. Theyre going to the Labor Department and they are all this one kind of person. They all have a strong union background, for example. These agencies are huge. The Agency Review teams are relatively small. The expertise is that the that you focus on the most because you want somebody who knows the faa and the fair labor standards act and the substantive needs are great at that point. Again, you also keep in mind that you wanted to be a diverse group. You want to make sure you have a variety of perspectives. One thing about transportation may have been 13 on president bushs list of top agencies based on his agenda, but come 9 11, leon panetta is making a lot of important decisions. Up tomes you set yourself pivot to an issue that is unexpected but how you set up the personnel that you want. Example, you want to find the best qualified people because you asked never know, even if an item is not your top agenda, you never know something will come up. When the big things that hap
Was talking about. So that made the conundrum period youre talking about much easier for our crowd because, we had the agenda in a 300 page book that people had internalized. People those who had worked for the campaign. We had the game plan set out for us and the reason i say that is a blessing, that we were blessed and having to run the campaign is that it made the george w. Bush administration unusually well prepared to govern and the said development and a lot of and are campaigning now is that policy does nothing to be that important and i think what we need to find is a way back, i dont think a particularly helps of the country thinks it is candidate is not bright. We need to find a way back to a mode of campaigning and politics where the candidates with the agendas and the agendas that suggested people, and what the people do in the first hundred days is what the country wants done. I think that is good be critical for our politics Going Forward. You could say that the most impo
Pam cook. Welcome back, you look familiar. I know, i have not seen you in ages. Thank you very much, pam and dave. A little bit of a pattern after the recordsetting temperatures and we are still getting High Pressure giving us dry weather and 30s and 40s to almost 50 degrees and these are some of the current temperatures right now. In bay it probably feels cooler, so if you are traveling 389 below, if you are traveling anywhere in the u. S. Temperatures will not be as warm but it seems to be more localized and it is starting to pick up. Upper 60s, a few near 70s, here is sal. Traffic is moving along okay if you are driving around the bay areas you look at the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic is not all that bad and it looks good getting into San Francisco. No major problems by the way if you are driving on highway 24, if you are taking the exit watch for Police Activity of in that area and as the chase ended up, you will see Police Officers looking for somebody. And also we are looking a