Good afternoon and welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im resident scholar and Deputy Director of education policy studies here an aei. Im pleased to kick off the event on Education Savings Account and future of Education Choice. Our event today is straight forward. In a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, governor jeb bush. Following his remarks on esas, i will join him on stage for a brief conversation together. Following that, my former colleague, Gerard Robinson, now executive director of the center for advancing opportunity, will join a distinguished group of panelist, which i will let him introduce in detail. But who will include adam pishack, john thnathan beckham lindsay burke. A little housekeeping, this is live streamed, full video available by the end of the day. We also have our friends at cspan who are broadcasting. We appreciate their service. For those watching at home or online, we have a hashtag for the event. Its jebbush aei. For those that would
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Certificate or a twoyear Community College degree. When you look at College Tuitions and all the prices around affordability, i think a robust career in Technical Education would help a lot of people. They would have to get skilled enough to do these jobs. It would be a fabulous idea that we could import from europe. Kentuckya reporter in near the end of the clinton administration. One thing that toward out that stood out to me was his tour that stood out to me was his tour around the nation about poverty. He spoke about how we have not forgotten you. Native american reservations, where the unemployment rates were 50 60 . I want to ask you two things. Culprit he bully the bully pulpit useful . It did not really lead to any specific policies for him. I was curious at that offers insight into the limitations of the bully pulpit. One of the things about clinton. John mentioned the earned income tax credit, which was passed during the clinton administration. It is something he is very prou
We export options, theres another option which is that you give a limited benefit up front that everybody gets it. But at least the tail for the Insurance Industry to cover, and that may be less comfortable for them. But i think we need to look at these options and see what is it that the Public Sector can do in d d that creates some space for private sector innovation. Thats where id like to see us explode. The last thing ill ask, and its a question for the record, if any of the witnesses have information are on what you believe the governments present exposure to longterm care of the liability is right now, as we speak. If you have any way to quantify what the cost is of that, that will our discussion in terms of being able to try to work with people to figure out, and income is going to pay for this to a degree anyway and theres a smarter way to do it, i would like to have that conversation, bearing in mind what the experts say we are going to pay for this anyway. I seem to recall t