Festival of books. Here in downtown nashville. Today we are at the National Public library and i like to thank them for hosting this if it and monday other sessions. Theyve been a great partner to this if it for several years and we just want to say thank you. Southern festival of books is an annual if it produced each year by humanities tennessee, i would like to take those moment to thank humanities tennessee and all who contribute to the organization for their continued support of the written word and the writers, the young writers, Community History and civil discourse in all things humidity here in tennessee. And humanities in tennessee like to say, our story and our state and i like to think humanities for helping us tell and preserver stories. So a pit of housekeeping before we began, in a moment ill introduce our other and share some stories, and some insight from the book, no surrender. The conclusion of his presentation, we will open the floor up to questions and if you have
Extraordinary life. Its as if Marian Wright edelman has this forrest gump life. She was in these places, in extraordinary places, and every page you turn of your life story is like, she was there, too . I guess im not even sure where to start. South carolina, your parents are very hardworking, your mom is an organizer, but even when you were a kid in school in south carolina, you end up crossing paths with langston hughes. Well, ive always felt so lucky to have been born who i was, where i was, with the parents i had. And at the time, i was born in the convergence of great people and great historical events. And so i wouldnt have been anybody else, even though it has not always been an easy life. And in south carolina, in my little, rural, segregated town, the outside world was not very friendly and not very supportive of black children. They told me basically in a segregated small town in the 40s and the 50s that, as a black girl, i wasnt worth very much. Hinojosa and you would hear t
It is a tax credit that people with low incomes receive as a kind of bonus for working, the more they earn, the larger the tax credit up to a certain point. Then that, clinton and first Lady Hillary Clinton were engaged in a deeply divisive with congress and the American People in general that the future of the health care system. Clintons efforts to Reform Health care at the time failed, so the white house was occupied with health care at the time. And then in 1995, a new congress was inaugurated. This congress was controlled by republicans. That led to a year and a half of haggling between republicans and congress and the white house over what kind of welfare reform would ultimately be enacted. Eventually in the summer of 1996, almost 20 years ago to the day, clinton signed the welfare reform bill. That bill was signed in 1996. What were some of the key changes it made in the welfare system . Max i think the most important change is that welfare can no longer be taken for granted. Pe
Advantage of by blacks, and that most blacks are on welfare. They should go to the Public Library and look up the data. Look up the facts. They dont know that we have three classes, just like everybody else. We have the wealthy, the middle class, and the poor. Some very poor. We will not be angry with people if we know the facts. We would not be so bitter because we have something going on in our country now where there is a lot of animosity and resentment and hate, but by people that are not informed. Gloria, i am going to thank you for your call. You can see a beautiful picture of our Nations Capital there. It is 9 00 here in bc. Dc there will be plenty of time for your calls when we open up the phone lines again tomorrow morning at 7 00 on washington journal. On august 22, 1996, president of clinton signed a law aimed at reducing the number of americans who depend on Welfare Benefits. Temporary assistance for needy families, or tanf replaced a Welfare Program called a to families wi
That would i just poverty by increasing Economic Growth and wage growth and job creation . If you look at the data, we never recovered to normal since the last recession. We do not recover to normal levels of wage growth. What is the best way to address Economic Policy to get the economy growing again . What ideas does anyone have to adopt policy . Why dont we run down anybody anybody . Taxeed a reduction in the that is slowing a Economic Growth slowing Economic Growth. We may never return to levels of Economic Growth. We are not going to see the labor force increase significantly. Right now it is on immigration that is keeping our population even stable. I think we are not going to see increases. Michael, you talked about that already. Minorities have moved into the labor force, we are not considered again. Automationng toward as of the tools for growth and productivity. I think we may not return to the the 4 to 5 growth of the past. To the degree that we can, i think it is going to r