As an opportunity to capture by the state and its associated special interests. And possibly get up to no good abroad. Iran is a large and sophisticated economy. About the same size in terms of population and income as turkey. An economy about 40 larger and 40 richer perperson roughly than egypt. It is much more than an oil economy or an oil state. Presanctions, it produced 1. 6 million cars. That is almost three times as many as italy produces today. Admittedly, italy is not a good example of efficiency. [laughter] i was working in italy when they were producing 2 million cars. 1975. Opening up iran has an effect on world trade and investment at a time when world trade is stuttering. The report says iran could attract the number could be much higher than that. Turkey attracted 13 billion in 2013 and turkey does not have huge oil reserves in need of technology and money to restart and expand. As for the effect on oil markets, the report stresses the biggest gain for the world economy.
Government policies that we are going to talk about in this panel limit the opportunities for them to get a job, for everyone to get a job, the most in the people are the ones who need it the most. I will cut straight to the introductions. Knepper is the director of Strategic Research at the institute for justice. Policy in social Science Research on issues choice,to School Private property rights, economic liberty, and free speech. Ofore working as a director Strategic Research, she served as the director of communications and joined the 2001tute and september where she specialized in Public Relations for technology companies. After miss knepper, we will hear from diane katz, she is a senior fellow in regulatory policy at the Heritage Foundation. She previously was director of environment, and Energy Policy for three years at the fraser institute. Snead. , we have jason he has written extensively on the need to reform the nations civil Asset Forfeiture laws, he also writes on issues s
Cities are increasingly becoming important as players on the national stage, bypassing National Governments when necessary, to look to each other for solutions to global problems. Affirmedd city leaders their support for what had originally been an agreement among nations, the paris climate accord. Is not an outlier in its city to city coordination. Quite the opposite. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, and human rights, and so many other critical issues. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordination is emerging and maturing and becoming wonderfully ordinary. Why is this happening . The answer is that urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in the century. Undoubtedly the most dynamic force. The than 500 cities around world now has a population of more than one million people. Is not quitec capture the staggering pace at which cities are growing. World0, one third of the lived
War a authoril talks about his book justice at the appomattox. Describes robert e. Lee and ulysses s. Grant leading to the surrender of the army of virginia in 18 55. The gettysburg Heritage Foundation hosted this talk that is just under one hour. That is great pleasure get to introduce ralph peters. For those of you unfamiliar with ralph he is a prizewinning bestselling author of a wide range of books from his civil war novels to strategic analysts. As a former enlisted man with extensive overseas experience he is currently a fox news analyst. Analysis he has covered topics from africa to iraq. For a wide range of newspapers and magazines. Began withhich gettysburg, the valley of the shadow, the dam at petersburg and will conclude with justice at appomattox which will be released on august 29. He will all caps to see the initial copy of this. We do have Copies Available over labor day weekend. I apologize that this is not released until the end of august. You will have a opportunity t
We have 104 schools, and i think its interesting to see the 104 schools. Later, youll see a breakdown of what administrators look like and a demographic of our School District. I need a cue, right . And well talk about per pupil funding. We need finances to do amazing things. Our per pupil funding is 5,780 per kid. And when we look at what that looks like across the nation, i see some of your faces going whoa, right . We have to compete with everybody else, but this would be our per pupil funding. It does present some challenges for us as a School District. But we started off with the board of trustees and myself having a Building Block of successes. One of the things we talked about is the importance of teamwork as a superintendent with your board. Right . Because you have to go out with a United Vision and tell the story together. And the board of trustees and myself committed to each other that thats what we were going to do, and of course, like everyone else talked about, we have a