Eurozone separate a largely jobless recovery. I if we have if you include the underemployed, the unemployed, and those who have given up and simply stopped working, we have 14 million unemployed or underemployed and we have the lowest Labor Participation rates since. The 1970s. Thats the fiscal and economic picture. Then you look at the cultural picture, and we have one out of every two majors in america ending in divorce. We have a majority of all the children being raised in America Today are being raised by one of their two parents not present in the household. 40 of all the children born in america this year will be born out of wedlock. That figure is 72 in the africanamerican community, it is 53 in the latino community. Folks, there is no way to sustain vibrant communities with that many children being born and raised out of wedlock. Without the benefit of the tough love and the nurture of both parents. According to the centers for disease control, one out of every four 18 to 24ye
Up next from last weekends National Book festival, few authors from the science room for the number few hours hear from the scientists. First heres amanda rip lee, the author of the smartest kids in the world and how they got that it way. On behalf of the library of conditioning, welcome to the 2014 National Book festival. My name is carlos, and im editor of the judd outlook section of the washington post. The post has been the charter sponsor of the festival since it began in 2001. Hope youre enjoying the new location here at the convention center. Before we begin i should inform you the presentation are being filmed for the library of congress web site and archives so be on your best behavior. And there will be time for questions, and theres mics in the two rows here on either side. So just go up to the mic for your questions. It is my sincere honor to introduce Amanda Ripley. The first time the book festival has had a formal science pavilion, and its completely fitting the first boo
Overall i do not have that number, but i will take it for the record. Okay. The ig has not completed their investigation, so we really probably do not have the final number right now. How much of the we talk someone about how the incentives may be should be based on outcomes rather than these metrics. I am targeting down on why the metrics, we lost control of them i heard testimony that had to do with technology, that we did not have we had a scheduling system that was easy to gain. Is that your assessment . I do not know enough about the system to make that assessment. Soaker. Well, because i just wanted the number of employees that were involved. It made it very difficult for anyone to make, you know, look at how people were scheduled to mile veterans were scheduled and it if there are a lot of employees, i can imagine that the scheduling component of the vista system apparently was vulnerable, but you testify on your expertise. Unfortunately it is not, congressman. Well, what other
On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can take you to foreign lands and give you a different perspective about your neighborhood. They can introduce you to people that came generations before and connect people in real time. My favorite incident happened to me when i
Part made his reputation on this and his participation in ensuring a smooth transition for president fords move into the white house, we at have the library know from our experiences that researchers ,com,com ma scholars, Civil Servants and curious citizens will find ways to learn from his collection that we cannot really imagine today. The continuing interest in technology, its free flow with the subject of a book that we reviewed yesterday in the wall street journal. This particular collection, the whitehead papers, gives us all gathered here today much pride. Under the leadership of librarian of congress j. H. Billington and with great assistance from chief of the Manuscript Division and his extraordinary staff, allen koltai tom studs and janice ruse, dr. Whitehead, toms widow has developed a web site containing digitized copies of much of the collection. Knowing that there are jams her to be discovered by future generations, she has explored the last and most effective ways to orga