It gives me great pleasure to the death as they try to tackle Climate Change. To declare open this 25th session. And top of the class. Just how does one of europes smallest nations outperform so here in madrid, as the annual un its richer neighbours . Weve been to estonia to find out. Talks on Climate Change get under way, one of the loudest demands is from the countries most vulnerable to those bigger storms. We worry about our livelihoods. We worry about the future generations. We worry about our country. We exist as people. We in the small islands, we exist as people. We have our cultures, we have our families, we have our livelihoods, and we face extinction. You cant get away from that. Good morning. And its not a nice it is 9 00am in singapore and 1 00am in the uk. Thought, its scary. An investigation by bbc panorama has all the time, the gases that discovered that lawyers for five of the accusers ofjeffrey epstein, the convicted sex offender, are heating up the atmosphere have ma
Conversation about a recently released science census report card reducing generational poverty. My pleasure this morning is to introduce you to the panelists today. We will from the people coauthors on the report telling you he highlights from the report. I encourage you to read the report, theres a lot of detail we will be able to cover today and then a broader discussion. Introducing greg duncan, the university of california irvine he has a Long Research career. He previously spent 25 years that diversity of michigan and was director claimed by harry halter, senior fellow garrett georgetown. Also in the black these department, her research focuses on shaping black communities, families. Look at policies and structural for income and other factors across generations. Fellow of the american economics. This conversation will be moderated as the visiting fellow here at brookings and economics programs. We join after spending 36 years as a staff writer at the Washington Post covering soc
Important that we are aware, that were building awareness of what might be coming in the future. So that we are so that we are prepared. We are leaving the program here for discussion on intergenerational poverty. Live coverage here and two. Conversation about a recently released science census report card reducing generational poverty. My pleasure this morning is to introduce you to the panelists today. We will from the people coauthors on the report telling you he highlights from the report. I encourage you to read the report, theres a lot of detail we will be able to cover today and then a broader discussion. Introducing greg duncan, the university of california irvine he has a Long Research career. He previously spent 25 years that diversity of michigan and was director claimed by harry halter, senior fellow garrett georgetown. Also in the black these department, her research focuses on shaping black communities, families. Look at policies and structural for income and other factor
Happened a little before kw8 this morning about 40 miles south of seattle. About 80 people were on board that amtrak train at the time and the train itself was moving at about 80 Miles Per Hour Officials Say and heading to portland. Dozens were taken to the hospital, including people who were hit while driving on the highway. You could see right there just how many emergency crew vehicles were out there today helping out victims, not to mentions a you just saw several of those passenger cars just dangling there over the overpass. When we got to the scene, it was obvious that there were some fatalities and a lot of injuries and some people were able to get off the train. Multiple cars and struck were struck by train cars that evident there the train tracks and went down on to the road. The people that were in all the vehicles, even though when you see the pictures its pretty horrific. At this point nobody in any of the vehicles is a fatal. Now were told the trains new route is part of 1
There is a chapter in here on federal tax reform and many others also covering the tax treatment of healthcare and global tax competition. I want to introduce Chris Edwards was editor of Debbie Debbie debbie that downsizing. Org. Before joining cato he is a senior columnist on the congressional joint Economic Committee. Thank you for coming here i think some of you may have had to be involved in the president ial motorcade. Im going to provide a brief overview of tax reform janie foster. President trump and republicans are pursuing tax reform. The basic idea is to cut individual and business tax rates to close the loophole and to improve the treatment of savings and investments. What we need tax or from . It can spread Economic Growth which will raise Living Standards for everybody. It can simplify the code and tax reform can also increase fairness by creating more equal treatment between taxpayers. The other reason we need tax reform is because we have not had major tax reform since 1