In hawaii, hasjust given this update. Its a very, very sad day in hawaii. It is devastating. And i know many families on maui are struggling right now as well as many Family Members across the state. We want to send our heartfelt love to them and our prayers to them. I am going to talk with two hats on, from here at the Convention Centre, we set up to accommodate 2,000 people. As the planes were leaving from maui, we realised that some of the people, in fact, a lot of the people that were coming to 0ahu from maui had made their own accommodation. We have a set up here that would accommodate 2,000 people. I want to really thank the team here because terry 0rton from the Convention Centre was here at four oclock in the Morning Setting up. They are doing an incrediblejob. People have been up all night. I really want to thank them for all of the work that they did, the red cross has been here helping us, nicky from the red cross. Thank you to all of those people. John monaghan and jerry gi
And 58th worst states. But at the top we see idaho, indiana, wyoming, kansas, and iowa. Now when you add fiscal policies and regulatory policies together we get Economic Freedom as a whole and there are other studies that measure Economic Freedom out there but we think we do a decent job at combining regulatory and fiscal as we see it and giving an overarching Economic Freedom index itself and that could be utilized even if youre not interested in the other aspects we measure here. In terms of Economic Freedom you see at the bottom we have new york, california, hawaii, new jersey, and maryland. At the top, New Hampshire comes in fifth followed by moving the scale to oklahoma, tennessee, idaho and the top state in terms of Economic Freedom in the country is south dakota. Next well talk about personal freedom. Here you have a whole range of policies that before the Freedom Index were not measured in any of these indices of freedom. We think thats a big value add for looking at this wider
In politics from brendas university. Jason soren is a lecturer in the government of government in dartmouth college. His Research Interests include Public Policy and federal systems, secession is him and ethnic politics. He is the author of secession is them, identity, interest and strategy and much of his International Academic work internationaln studies quarterly, state politics and policy quarterly and other academic journals. He has received is ba in economics and philosophy with honors and his phd in Political Science from yale university. We will hear from both gentlemen and then we will leave time for questions at the end. Ruger. Lease welcome will mr. Ritter thank you am a peter, and thank you to the cato institute. We are excited to be with cato and to integrate the launching point for discussion about what it means to be free and whether the state of Public Policy is in the states. Toould like you to think take you for coming out. What is the Freedom Index question market is
Our issues spotlight looks at Voting Rights and the impact on the 2016 election. We will feature part of the 2013 Supreme Court oral argument. Members of Congress Look at whether to restore the Voting Rights act. Here is what the president ial candidates have to say. Now a lot of places will not have voter identification. You just keep walking in and voting . What is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of of property or young people. A new report by the Cato Institute looks at crime reduction, fiscal policy, and taxes to determine state freedom rankings. This is about one hour. Good afternoon. Me to thisook to capitol Hill Briefing entitled freedom in the 50 states. Peter russo. I want to thank you for showing up here today. I appreciate it. For those of you on twitter who like to get involved were about. The cato events we would love to hear from you. Today marks the publication date of freedom in the 50 states, an index of personal and Economic Free
Supports isil. Rescuers are under way in a landslide where 100 people are missing. In Central Kenya where for people the best way to get to a health center, but at times the ride can be rough. We start in afghanistan where 20 people have been killed and dozen dozens of others have been injure in kabul an Army Personnel have withi been killed, others have been wounded in multiple attacks across the country. Lets go to kabul where Jennifer Glasse joins us from there. What more can you tell us about these recent attacks. Reporter a deadly 24 hours here in afghanistan. The latest attack just before the sunset here during afghanistans kabul very busy rush hour. The police say it was a suicidebomber on foot that attacked that bus, setting it aplay ablaze. Seven afghan personnel were killed, 18 people wounded including civilians walking by on the busy kabul streets. Its the Second Attack this morning. A Senior Member of Afghanistans Supreme Court was killed on his way to work and as you menti