The next 12 months and longerterm. Hopefully this will help you as governors to know whether to invest more now or to save for a rainy day. I am delighted to have such a distinguished panel of guests here to have this discussion. Yogi bear is says it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future but if anyone can do it accurately, it is these guys. We have a broad wealth of experience and knowledge. Start withl do is five minutes or so about the current shape of the u. S. Economy and we will turn to the discussionnd have a for the next half hour or so. At the end, i would like to open it up to westerns from the governors. If there are certain topics that are more pertinent to you. To set the scene a little bit allay some fears, it is a bit bizarre at the moment that there is so much speculation that we are headed towards a recession. Measures, the u. S. Economy is in stronger shape than it has been for the best part of a decade and probably in much stronger shape than m
Recall that moynihan was complaining primarily about black families and his these is was that because of weakness in black Family Structure, blacks would not be able to seize the opportunities that were coming available to them as a result of the Civil Rights Movement. And i can tell you that what i am going to say to you is moynihans concerns now apply to hispanics and to whites, to the whole country. And here are the numbers. I got these by i recently analyzed the censuses. This is representative of the whole country. Here is what happened with family composition. First, marriage rates declined for every age group and every ethnic group every education group, with one exception thats quite fascinating, declined in 1970 and 1980 for College Educated women, but have been stable and risen a little for College Educated women. I think theres a lesson in that. For every other Group Marriage rates have declined. Now im going to tell you a fact demonstrated by social science. This fact will
To for the agency to meet statutory obligations. As dr. Sullivan fully described, i will not duplicate that discussion. I will close, though, speaking to results. Results afterall, what matters. The centers for Disease Control analyzed illnesses from all foods. Over the fiveyear period ending in 2010, cdc found that 141 of 122,000 that is 0. 001156 or 0. 12 illnesses caused by imported seafood. Most of us love baseball. Great day to be out for the nats game. But we recall going to the games with our dads. Hoipg to clutch that mitt and catch that foul ball. Unfortunately, we often came home crest fallen because we rarely ever did. The chance of catching the foul ball. 0. 001156 or 0. 12 . As an example of effectiveness of fda and while this is the hearing focus not only the fda captures program, i did want to acknowledge the leadership of senator shaheen and ayotte and others on this committee working in a bipartisan manner to eliminate a program that usdas own risk experts said will no
Understand and so maybe start the process of coming up with ways to defend cyberspace better. Cyberspace vulnerabilities monday night on the communicate tors on cspan2. President obama was at the Washington Headquarters of the federal Emergency Management agency to discuss preparations for Hurricane Sandy. Following the briefing, he spoke briefly with reporters. Good afternoon everybody, all of us across the country are concerned about the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy. This is a serious and big storm. And my first message is to all the people across the eastern coast going north that you need to take this very serious and follow the instructions of your state and local officials because they are going to be providing you with the best advice in terms of how to deal with this storm over the coming days. Weve just had an excellent meeting with the fema team here and the various agencies in charge including the didnt of the defense and energy that are going to need to respond quick
Cyberspace was and the degree and depth of the vulnerabilities and what were trying to do is take pieces of it and explain the fundamentals and the idea is everybody from my mom and dad to congress and people around the country can understand and so maybe start the process of coming up with ways to defend cyberspace better. Cyberspace vulnerabilities monday night on the communicators on cspan2. President obama was at the Washington Headquarters of the federal Emergency Management agency to discuss preparations for Hurricane Sandy. Following the briefing, he spoke briefly with reporters. Good afternoon everybody, all of us across the country are concerned about the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy. This is a serious and big storm. And my first message is to all the people across the eastern coast going north that you need to take this very serious and follow the instructions of your state and local officials because they are going to be providing you with the best advice in terms of