Remember, the festival has some sources of funding, but mostly it depends on donations from people like you. You can donate on the festival web site, from the app, on facebooking, or you can do it the oldfashioned way, in person at the Festival Headquarters here. [laughter] we will be ending the session about ten minutes before the hour or so. First, well hear from dr. Daryl carter. He, hes written a book called brother bill president clinton and the politics of race and class. Hes an associate professor at east Tennessee State university, and and his areas of expertise are 20th and 21st century american political history. He particularly is interested in the new deal, in the fair deal, the great society, the clinton and obama presidencies and the intersection of race, class and gender. Hes been appointed to the world war i War Commission in tennessee and is a member of the board of directors of the tennessee humanities. Dr. Carter . Its yours. Thank you, judge. I wish to thank everyon
And growing community, that is where we are gathering around not only professional writers but folks who write for their own enjoyment and creative purposes and anyone who loves to read anything. We have ongoing collaboration in vanderbilt university, helping us program a special track every year. This year among a couple tracks we have going on we have one, all the kings men, the Pulitzer Prize is celebrating the 100th anniversary so the pulitzers at remember, the festival has some sources of funding, but mostly it depends on donations from people like you. You can donate on the festival web site, from the app, on facebooking, or you can do it the oldfashioned way, in person at the Festival Headquarters here. [laughter] we will be ending the session about ten minutes before the hour or so. First, well hear from dr. Daryl carter. He, hes written a book called brother bill president clinton and the politics of race and class. Hes an associate professor at east Tennessee State university
Changes the conversation because focusing on advancing women and, again, i want women in the top of every profession but when we think about it that way, we start counting. Because thats the way you measure how well women are doing, how many women are in fortune 500 and how many women are in Senior Management and how many women are computer scientists. All that have does focus pretty much on wealthy white women, by and large. It does not phofocus on the millions of the women at the bottom. One of the thing i realize, we have too few women at the top and too many women at the bottom and care or our lack of support for care plays a role at both ends. At the top end, if you take time out for care, your career goes off track. But for the millions of women at the bottom not supporting their care means if they take a day off they could lose a job, right . So focusing on care says we have to put in place the policies that rich women can buy their way out of often. We have to put in leave, pai
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Theres more road to the whos coverage this evening on the cspan networks. Donald trump is speaking in florida at the Trump National doral miami. A golf resort he owns. Thats at 7 00 eastern on cspan. And at k 30 here on cspan, texas senator ted cruz hold as town hall meeting in council bluffs, iowa. A house energy and commerce subcommittee held a hearing earlier today on protecting Senior Citizens from fraud. Texas congressman Michael Burgess chaired the hearing. Its two hours and 15 minutes. Mr. Burgess the subcommittee will now come to order. And the chair recognizes himself for five minutes for the purpose of an opening statement. This morning, first let me welcome our witnesses. This morning we will receive an update on the Consumer Protection efforts in place to address the fraud risk for americas seniors. As of july, 2013, there are over 44 million americans who are older than 65, thats lmost 14 of the population. The people 65 and older projects to outnumber the people younger t