Roles Rather Congress can do much more efficient stimulus through some subsidized job creation and some director job creation. To bring it full circle again, i think we are all tied up in this plays right now what if we were asked are ready for the next recession right now the answer would be no. But the long answer we do think is really possible. If we do strengthen our automatic stabilizers and build some architecture and other programs like we recommend in the paper we think we will be ready for it when it gets here. So thank you very much. [applause] thanks everyone. Thanks very much. Ill talk about policies for the next recession, will do my focus. Want to start by uploading ben. Ive taken a quick glance at the paper so at first glance some things i disagree but it seems important and im glad theyre doing it. The hard work, whats right thing to do and how to prepare, and the point that ben made at the end about this a good program have the infrastructure set up to wrap up. It seem
We are a big federal government. Like you all we can do come we all have to do as local governments, you have to do 20 things at a time every day. The same applies for us. We want to make sure we give you the tools to help give your folks back home information about the process. I will turn it over to simon. Before we do that, any questions before we go to the Refugee Resettlement . Thank you so much. Let me go ahead and introduce the next three panelists. Simon henshaw is a career officer at the u. S. Foreign service. Currently serving as Principal Deputy assistant secretary of the beer of population, refugees, and migration. The bureau of population. Barbara strack to my left is a joint u. S. Citizen and citizenship and Immigration Services as chief of the Refugee Affairs division. She manages the refugee core and Headquarters Staff to support u. S. Refugee admissions and admissions program. She worked in both the public and private sectors directing a project on immigration at the N
Of our Home Mortgage system to report honestly on what it was that was being marketed as clusters of Home Mortgages all the way through to a macroeconomic crisis, potential failures in major banks, in some cases the failure, major involvement by the governments in stabilizing the economies and propping them up, a real crisis in europe, certainly Great Potential for a country like greece more or less to drop out of the World Economy for a while, and significant challenges in how and in what way we institutionalize a little better. The operation of the world Financial System and the world banking system, how we bring it in in a way that accords with some of the institutional attentions we have paid to trade and the regulation and indeed the International Role played in evening up the trade picture, removing unfair practices and seeking new ways to move. We are now challenging the world with two major trade agreements east and west. They can provide an important and i think very significa
Responsibility for Border Security efforts coordinate and collaborate on their efforts. On the immigration side weve done work looking at various enforcement efforts including i. C. E. Oversight of schools that admit foreign students. Weve also done work looking at overstay enforcement issues. And on the immigration benefits side, weve done work looking at u. S. Ciss processes and systems for adjudicating immigration benefits and weve also done some work looking at employment verification issues. I just wanted to share those remarks by way of introduction give just to give you a flavor of who gao is as an agency and the range of work weve done on Border Security and immigration issues. For todays discussion i want to focus my remarks really are two or three key reports that relate to some of the issues and topics that are raised in mpis report. The first report and going to spend most of my time discussing is a report that gao issued in the summer of 2012 on the security Communities Pr
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