And actually its serving your constituents to have more of a micro handle on what is sort of going on in our districts, but also to be able to funnel people direct people to their website or to their offices versus them getting like a million calls or 311 getting a ton of calls. So i wanted to say that on the ground we could do that type of helpful work when i know that the city is working on a very macro level. Supervisor walton. Is there a regional conversation about cal pal yes, also on our list, yes. Id say lastly to the staff and then weve got to run. One of the other ideas is, you know, obviously former retirees who are in the Health Care Work as well as volunteers who have Training Background and are formally working with nonprofits or not, but sort of a Health Background or a clinical background. And the third is a lot of our communitybased organizations are deemed nonessential per the order so reaching out to employees from those c. B. O. S who are still getting paid. Were goi
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Archivists in collecting and organizing books and documents. They were skilled in collecting and organizing books and documents. Their work has left its own archival trail that peiss and other scholars can now follow. Peiss herself has sifted through the state Department Records here at the National Archives in college park and the Herbert Hoover president ial library in iowa. Researchers today pursue their missions in Research Rooms and online relying on the skills of , archives and library professionals, and i am very proud of our staff here at the National Archives in the daily work they do to assist the modern information hunters. Kathy peiss is a professor of American History at the university of pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on modern american cultural history and the history of american sexuality, women and gender. She is the author of chief amusements, working women in leisure in turnofthecentury jar,rk, and hope in a americas beauty culture, a finalist for the Los An
Rob blot. [applause] [applause] good morning. Good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me here. I want to thank everyone with the book festival, this is an amazing event and im honored to be here, you know, its really moving for me to be part of this group, im looking through all of the other folks that are here , and youre wondering, this guy is a lawyer. You know whats going on here. And thats what i want to talk about today, is why i ended up writing this book, exposure and whats the story about and why i believe its an important story for all of us. Most of the people in the room have probably heard of flint, michigan and the lead crisis, right . Im curious how many people heard of substances . Some, good. You know, i think most of us realized that we turn on the television, we are watching the news, we saw nonstop coverage of the flint, michigan lead crisis for a good reason, we had contaminated water, children drinking contaminated water, all National News networks, 24 7 cove
Middle class is getting killed, the middle class is getting crushed, the workingclass has no way up as a consequence. The idea that we are growing, we are not growing, the wealthy are growing, ordinary people are not growing, they are not happy with where they are and thats why we mutts enter must change the presidency now. How can biden and his fellow democrats make the case that the economy is terrible when indicators and confidence are pointing up. A tough case to make, they need to make it because President Trump has that going for him. He says the economy, look at the stock market, some people will say thats not in a measure of the economy but 10000 points and they took over in august. Peoples 401ks are booming. That does impact the middle class. Lets look at other factors, unappointed 50 year low, president obama brought it from 10 down to 4. 7 and some say he jumped on the train, thats the hardest little part, the incremental part to do. Third thing how about gdp, and 2016 we lo