Welcome and good afternoon. I am Vice President here at the urban institute the centron labor, human services. And also a Financial Wellbeing expert. So todays topic is near and dear to my heart. Thank you to all of us who joined both in the room today and online. Before a jump in here are a few notes on housekeeping. One the event is being recorded. The recording and relevant links will be posted online after the event. If you are joining us virtually the are turned on you can adjust those at the bottom of your screen. And if you are in the room you can use the qr code thats on all of your table to submit your questions and that virtual audience can submit your questions directly into the question and answer box at any time. We are going to be sharing a link with a post event survey and we ask that you share your feedback with us. It is helpful for us and for panelists to hear what you are thinking about and to shape how we do events in what we look at in the future. If you would like
Especially for those living in foldable communities. The Treasury Department released a report the day of this event. This is hosted by the urban institute in washington d. C. It runs about an hour and 20 minutes. Welcome and good afternoon. I am Vice President here at the urban institute the centron labor, human services. And also a Financial Wellbeing expert. So todays topic is near and dear to my heart. Thank you to all of us who joined both in the room today and online. Before a jump in here are a few notes on housekeeping. One the event is being recorded. The recording and relevant links will be posted online after the event. If you are joining us virtually the are turned on you can adjust those at the bottom of your screen. And if you are in the room you can use the qr code thats on all of your table to submit your questions and that virtual audience can submit your questions directly into the question and answer box at any time. We are going to be sharing a link with a post even
Commemorating the fifth anniversary of super storm sandy which obviously affected a large part of the eastern seaboard. And i was reporting as it struck in my research became my third book super storm. I was looking at how it was we had gotten super storm sandy so wrong that new york had failed to the issue evacuation orders and so many buildings and key pieces of infrastructure were flooded and destroyed. To spend time at the National Hurricane center those who are incredibly talented told me the same thing over and over we are just not very good at this still at forecasting storms. And we saw that in 2017 with Hurricane Maria and hurricane hugo. And to respond to disaster for all that is powerful so if you think of that sheer explosive power earthquakes are exponentially smaller so how do we prepare for those as a nation are we prepared for that . When you think about a hurricane we have a lot of technology we can use so the International Guard that are directly into a storm to drop
Public service by americas Cable Television companies. Its brought you today your cable or satellite provider. Over the next few hours here and cspan, a commencement addresses from around the country, with intent jersey senator cory booker, Vice President mike pence, bill clinton, kelly ayotte, and the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, joseph number. We start with senator booker, who export to graduates of the Commitment Ceremony at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. [applause] thank you very much. It is incredible to be here and i want to thank you all for inviting me to be a part of this day of history in your lives, i want to thank you for allowing me to be a small part of this extraordinary community. I want to congratulate the graduates, and i want to thank everyone who helped to make this possible and when i say everyone, it took so many people to make this day possible. I want to thank the parents and the grandparents, and the family members. I want to thank every
And so i confess to you, when i was graduating from college, i felt like i knew a lot, and now that im about twice your age, im not as confident in what i know. In fact, i am a person that believes i am in struggle, as we all are. The beautiful thing that ive realized is that were all in this struggle together. We perceive that there are differences between us, gaps and gulfs, but we are far more united, far more indivisible, far more involved in a larger common struggle than we know. And so what id like to do very briefly today, is confess to you two things i struggle with, and its really two stories, one from someone from history who ive come to admire and the other one is perhaps one of my greatest mentors ever. The person from history, its a short story, i dont even know if its apocryphal or not, but its made a point that i struggle with and its a story about Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was said to be rushing on busy days, running from point to point but now he was said to be running fo