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Good morning and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. I am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform. Here at the Heritage Foundation. I ask for you please, those in the audience to please make that last little check on your cell phone to make sure that they will not interrupt the proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called Big Government policies that hurt the poor. And how to address them. United states is a very compassionate country and you have an awful lot of government activities that affect poor members of the population and in one way or another. We have welfare programs, welfare spending at one time or another that adds up to well over 1 trillion. That can be in things like healthcare, directing supports of one kind or another. We are not really here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of Government Policies
Good morning. Im david wessel. Im director of the hutchens senator on fiscal and monetary policy. The hutchens center was formed three years ago now. This is actually our third anniversary, to improve the quality of fiscal and monetary policy, and public understanding of it. And i think that this is actually a very good embodiment of what we had in mind when we started the hutchens center with a generous gift from mr. Hutchens. We believe theres a role for research in both shaping good economic policy, and in helping the public better understand it. And certainly, infrastructure, spending, and investment in Human Capital are one of those things that or two of those things that are often reduced to bumper stickers, sometimes with no evidence whatsoever behind them. I just want to say a word about the hutchens center. As of today, we have done 44 events. Today we will publish our 26th and 27th working papers. Weve done 19 explainers, part of our public understanding, and produced one com
Center on fiscal and monetary policy. The hutchens center was formed three years ago now. This is actually our third anniversary, to improve the quality of fiscal and monetary policy, and public understanding of it. And i think that this is actually a very good embodiment of what we had in mind when we started the hutchens center with a generous gift from mr. Hutchens. We believe theres a role for research in both shaping good economic policy, and in helping the public better understand it. And certainly, infrastructure, spending, and investment in Human Capital are one of those things that or two of those things that are often reduced to bumper stickers, sometimes with no evidence whatsoever behind them. I just want to say a word about the hutchens center. As of today, we have done 44 events. Today we will publish our 26th and 27th working papers. Weve done 19 explainers, part of our public understanding, and produced one computer game, a game that helps educate people on the federal
Good afternoon, everybody. I want to welcome you all here today. Im peter russo, ademocratdirec personal affairs at thecato institute. This is a capitol Hill Briefing entitled economics of Health Insurance reform. The repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care act dominated discussions on the hill in recent weeks and lawmakers are huddling in philadelphia to recourse for the damage done to the Health Market in recent years. When they state they dont have a plan and i suppose im being cheritiable here but democrats say they dont have a political viable one. There is some truth to that as any comprehensive replacement will require support from democrats. If there is a take no prisoners approach continues they will in an act of self fulfillment prevent the plan. But to add to the mix the president promised an outline of his own further complicated the endeavor, bun that might bind and unify existing offerings. Time will tell and we will see. The true libertarian position requires he no