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Somewhere and thats not cool who works for aei and she is the timekeeper. Shes over there and she will be giving signs so that we can keep everybody on schedule. Im sorry to say that but thats part of what happens when youre trying to run a wellrun seminar. I want to say one last thing about seminars because roberta is from chautauqua county. Some of you may know that Chautauqua Institute is one of the earliest sort of institute of good thinking and sharing of ideas of the United States, and when president johnson was president , he would get frustrated with things that he would say we will have one of these darn chautauqua seminars. That didnt get a laugh i was hoping for but thats okay last night but the point is this is Something Like that. We want of a free and open discussion. And with that i will start with codel. Thank you very much. I do want to thank you all for coming. Its interesting we talk about it ever looks at the baptist preacher and said okay. Thats who we need to keep
It had a countercyclical role and, very importantly, the rigorous evidence shows food stamps raises the nutritional quality of poor children. That this a clear fact when you look at the evaluation evidence on that. And those children [inaudible] so, therefore, a rise in food stamps somehow proving that obama has been a failure is simply another falsehood, in my view. The earned income tax credit. The report does have a positive paragraph or two on the earned income tax credit, then it talks a lot about the fraud and the irs, we need to be much stricter combating the fraud. I have no problem with that except we have one problem, the irs has been so demonized by House Republicans in the last six or eight years and funding so dramatically cut that its hard to give them another Unfunded Mandate to do this work. The juxtaposition of those comments strikes me a little bit. Theres a lot written about the marginal tax rates, you know im going to need a little more time. Im sorry, robert. The n
Debate showdown, clinton and trump get back to work on the campaign trail. But sides claim victory donald trump bows to get tougher on clinton in round two. Moscow says its thrown its military weight behind the assad regimes plan to retake the city of aleppo. Announcing tuesday that Ground Troops have we taken control of the rebel held district in the northwest of the city. Aleppo has been pounded by regime and russian airstrikes for days now since the temporary truce failed last week. This as the World Health Organization calls for safe core doors to allow the cities sick and injured to leave. For more on the situation in syria, we cross to beirut or our regional correspondent is standing by. What more can you tell us about the governments ground offensive there in aleppo . As you were saying, they said they had retaken the district northwest of the old city of aleppo. This is the first time we have seen this kind of advance from syrian Ground Troops in this area. These are stalemated
Didnt find a whole lot in terms of studies that have looked at these things. Theres a lot of studies that talk about computer assisted and used to design a program that could be effective. What criteria is success . Well, first of all i think it was successful in that we did achieve what Congress Actually asked us to do in 1996, make sure that it was no inequality in terms of, you know, highincome areas having classrooms connected and lowincome areas not. By the way, in the early phase, not sure that will be true of the reform of the erate, but there certainly were studies that suggested that the erate in the years 97 through 2002 i think actually helped drive an upgrade to broadband in those areas where you had erate finding. It was kind of an anchor institution that drove greater connectivity. Look, i appreciate that. I think if you look at the weight of all the evidence that came in from various groups, and you can say they are biased, support for reform of the program to have wifi