With a focus on the prison system. A harvardpreview with professor talking about a resumeon has become of people are thrown in jail. Incapacitation, rehabilitation, retribution has also looped in our reasons for punishment. We really shifted our motivation for incarceration from rehabilitation. Retribution, a sense that these are somehow deeply immoral actors that we want to submit to the harshest possible conditions. I think we are now seeing the ansequences of what i feel is misguided strategy that we are somehow expecting for the 2 million individuals currently have in prison, if we can exposed them to psychologically brutal conditions, and then release them into the streets, successbe a policy for and a strategy to reduce crime. Part of the conference will also hear about overcrowding in prisons, the vocational programs, and what happens to prisoners after they leave the system. That is tonight here on cspan at 8 00 eastern. On q a,sunday night twotime bullet surprise cartoonists,
Streams to create a workforce and what i found and i have been a series of these roundtables and this is not just millennial. I think about a session i had in roanoke were folks were my age, rather than millennial. To a person, they would not go 95 with traditional the same revenue stream. I would ask of them. It took 3540 increase in pay for somebody to be willing to trade back in to a normal job. And as policymakers we have never been able to put a value on such a situation could we do not complain about every nature of todays world, but many people are trading in for flexibility. What we want to do, what i want to do, is allow innovation to take place and allow this flexibility to take place in the but not create such a free rider problem that people are doing well, if they hit a bump government benefits only, because we created no social insurance jointly contributing in the interim. Host lets talk about the relation between obamacare and the on demand economy. After premiership an
Or commercial courts of law which they have asked us to help them with. They want serious help to create commercial courts of law. They created an intellectual Property Court because they recognize they are becoming amateur, innovative economy. They need these things. It will benefit american businesses but they are not doing it for that reason. Theyre going to trying to do this because it is for their own benefit. One area they talked about was a structured response to allegations of cyberattacks but the president had a pointed comment. Is, our wordsow followed by actions . What is the timeframe, thinking about whether this works, our sanctions still on the table if it does not . There is not a precise timeframe. Is the messagey was clear. Actions speak louder than words and what are you doing about this . Where big an area progress was made, the bilateral investment treaty. That was struggling to make progress. Leading up to this, significant progress was made in terms of the sectors
Path, what a way to stir up a an otherwise stale political debate. Derek thank you. The washington ideas for him ideas forumngton brings together experts and ideas. Our conversation continues now with former Vice President al gore. Thank you for coming. You have done a lot of traveling to be here. As i promised yesterday, the Vice President has something to talk about you might not be expecting. There are things you probably will expect, given his political expertise, the things you know about what he has been doing in the years since his vice presidency. The nobel peace prize, the two oscars, the two number one bestsellers, other things of that sort. Blah, blah, blah, as they say. [laughter] i got to immerse myself in these things in an article about what Vice President gore has been up to, which will be in the atlantic in 10 days. Those of you here at the conference have it in your conference application. Thats what i want to ask you about. I have to cue up the question, because you
Skilled workers, there is an opportunity in terms of Immigration Reform to do with that but also there is an Economic Opportunity and a moral obligation when it comes to skilled workforce. I mean immigration. Second is we have to invest in not just roads and bridges and we have read the data about we are not investing enough but we have to invest in high speed broadband. With 20 of households do not have access, how can we compete . More business is being done on the internet. Betsy etsy, a company that allow someone to start a business at home, it is a Public Company. A fast Public Company here in the United States and it basically is a marketplace for craft workers to sell these things. We have to have broadband for those folks to have access, 90 of which are women, most of whom are staying at home, these are microbusinesses. There is a new definition of what business and productivity is that we are not connecting. And generally 2010 the president set the goal of doubling u. S. Expor