To invite tracy gordon, who is a senior fellow in the brookings urban tax policy center. She is a leading scholar and specialist in the area of state and local finance, and we are so delighted to have her as part of the urban team and working on these issues. And she is going to present work and research that shes done with colleagues at ucla and kick off our next panel conversation. Tracy . Thank you very much, erika. And thank to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy. Such a terrific program. Very excited to be here today and talk about some of the work of my coauthors in l. A. At uc berkley. First, our unit of analysis is different. Were not looking at these fiscally standardized cities, but were looking at cities just how they exist. Were not capturing these differences that andy laid out between, say, baltimore and tampa, but we are capturing the decisionmaking unit as opposed to maybe you can think about fiscally standardized cities as the
Sont are the humidity levels and sky conditionss. Son decorative clouds basically sunny out thered temperatures ae on the cool side. 62 in cleveland almost chilly il would say that pierpont rock creek 47 earlier this morning down to 44 and rome southwesth ashtwabula county. Anda highs yesterday 73 here. Re. I think well be right near thaa level again today. Day. Dover new philly hit 82 and downstate around perhaps even dayton cincinnatinc thosei folks flirting with a 90degree high yesterday. A refreshing low 70degree high today. Sunset 6 36 tonight. Tonigh witht bright moonshine up there. Today the september son will be up therewi hell need your shadh fore. Ure. Look at those clouds i look likl there trying to thicken down to the south and west certainlyt hoping that highpressure does blocks the vast majority of thet cloud cover from moving into thh cleveeland area. There could be some clouds soutt and the computer models actually picking up on those clouds. Uds. The big weekend is com
Targeting can occur in many ways from silver harassment to identified people more specifically. We must ensure that the entire army team is aware of the threat and suspect suspicious activities and responds when needed. One of the toughest challenges for the army is how do we address a threat like the shooter in choot chatnooga. To be successful we mustards this at a few levels. We need to continue to expand and our cooperation with Law Enforcement partnering with agencies to our mutual benefit. We need to continue to respond in coordination with the local partners to execution of the National Incident Management System across judicial jurisdictional boundaries. With assured commanders that they have authority and responsibility to respond wherever warranted. We coordinate Emergency Action exercises, our personnel know how to react when presented with a dangerous situation particularly when Law Enforcement arrives. We continually assess and improve note if i noti fica tion procedures j
As president , but warning against taking them out on an arbitrary time line next year. The president announcing today that he would keep nearly 10,000 troops in the region until october 2016 and then cut back to 5,500 in early 2017. In a statement the majority leader said the decision to reduce troop numbers should be left to the next president. You can read more here at the washington examiner. Weve heard from the chair of the Armed Services committee, who released a statement saying given the troubling conditions on the ground in afghanistan and the other Security Problems in the region keeping 9,800 troops through at least 2016 is necessary for our security interests. You can also hear the president s announcement for yourself in its entirety and well have it at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time over on cspan. Known as the city of good neighborhoods, this weekend our cspan cities tour joined by Time Warner Cable explores the history and literary life of buffalo wrarks new york, on become tv
Peoples ability to withstand financial shocks and one quarter of u. S. Respondents were financially fragile in the sense they could not come up with 2,000 in 30 days. Including respondents who reported probably being unable to come up with 2,000, half would be viewed as financially fragile. Low saving was the reported. In addition, Many Americans report that adequate saving for retirement is a challenge. In a 2014 gallup poll, only half respondents reported being confident they will have enough money to live comfortable in retirement. Research validates this concern and households in the lower distribution are most likely to be squeezed. So, for example, lower income households are much more likely to experience a material drop in their consumption at retirement than their higher income counterparts. Okay. So this brings us to the crucial questions of why people dont save enough and how federal policy can encourage them to save more. So to start, its not uncommon to hear people say the