23 million jobs created in millions moved out of poverty and the narrowing of the income inequality cap and the first legit surpluses in generations. How did it happen . How did the 1993 legit to that reduce the deficit get done . For the 1997 budget deal that balanced the budget unsecured historic surpluses westmark how to the earned income tax credit and the Childs Program that helps the poor and the working class families and pulled will millions into the middle class get done . Jean spurling and erskine roles are the Perfect People to answer these questions. Erskine bowles is to my left and joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as the administrator of the Small Business administration and then moved to the white house as deputy chief of staff in 1994 and then chief of staff at the start of the Clinton Administration in 1997 until october, 1998. To keep them honest, and to add context to their consequential work is the associate professor of Political Science at the United State
Symposium hosted by the Clinton Foundation and Miller Center. It is a little over one hour. Please welcome msnbc contributor jonathan k parks and the Economic Policy panel. [applause] thank you very much. As the voice of god said, i am john [indiscernible] from the washington post. When president clinton took office on january 20, 19 93, the American Economy was in bad shape. Unemployment is high. The deficit is high. The National Debt was climbing even higher. The man who campaigned on cutting the deficit in half had a seemingly impossible task. The longest economic expansion in u. S. History a narrowing of the income inequality gap in the first Budget Surplus in generations. How did it happen . How did the budget deal of 1993 get done or the 1997 budget deal that balance the budget and secured these historic surpluses . How did the Child Health Insurance program that helped the poor and workingclass families and untold millions fold into the middle class and get done . Gene sperling
State Sen. Linda Chesterfield; Jamee McAdoo and her late sibling Norel McAdoo; and Rupa Dash were honored during the Celebrating Maya@96 10th Anniversary Spirit of Maya Awards Luncheon and Celebration. The fundraiser for the Celebrate! Maya Project was held April 11 in the Great Hall of Little Rock s Clinton Presidential Center. The luncheon served as an observation, a week later, of what would have been the 96th birthday of poet Maya Angelou, who passed away in 2014.