What Public Office have you held before, if you have and if so hello, welcome to all of those of you who braved the weather to come join us today and also to our online all of a sudden. We really appreciate you joining us. Im tara watson, i direct the center for Economic Opportunity here at brookings. I was asked to join a project. It was under the auspices of the convergence collaborative and the goal was to discuss policies to support working families and i quickly learned that this approach was really serious about bringing together people from across the ideological spectrum and about facilitating productive conversation so several dozen of us spent quite a bit of time for the past year producing a report. Youll hear a bit about that today, especially in the first panel bull then because the process was so unusual, i wanted to give people the opportunity to hear more about work across the spectrum more generally. So our second pan panel will be focusing on productive ways to do tha
Institution. Hello. Welcome to all of those of you who braved the weather to join us today, and also to our online audience. We appreciate you joining us. My name is tara watson, i direct the center for Economic Opportunities at here right here at brookings. A year ago, someone asked me to join a project. It was under the convergence collaborative, which i did not know much about. The goal was to discuss policies to support working families. I quickly learned this approach was really serious about bringing together people from across the ideological spectrum and about facilitating productive conversation. So several dozen of us spent quite a bit of time for the past over the past year producing a report. Which you will hear a little bit about today, especially in the first panel. Then because the process was so unusual, i wanted to give people the opportunity to hear more about work across the spectrum more generally. So our second panel will be focusing on productive ways to do that.
Are truly libertarian and that is not a popular position in this country. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] best. Hello thanks for your patience we are excited to be celebrating the launch of the book by. [applause] we have plenty of books at the register and be appreciated after words to grab one from us to help support events just like this so for more information about our author and moderators from the New York Times among others of their oddball a when urbane of the 2012 algiers award. Next editing for numerous publications the washington postbox newsweek and the new yorker on line and others including the book of jezebel and works as a columnist for a veneer times book review. Finally a writer appearing in the year career and in New York Times pdf Rolling Stone and then puerto rico in puerto rico and random house please welcome our speakers. [applause] i just want to thank everybody for being here and the call this the book launch but it came out a fe
Secret, but roadways looking real nice, roadways are looking nice and dry no accident right now just some construction. Like you said the roads are dry it, will stay tai way through the entire morning drive. Overall looking at decent day here nice sunrise currently underway guysment take a look outside Middle Township High School sun keeps coming up earlier, and earlier at 50 degrees in this particular shot of our live network, as the day progresses cents what we find is a frontal boundary trying to lift in. Other than passing cloud nice clear sky. Blue skies no less. And off to a nice start. Ooh degrees the current temperature at the airport, 49 Atlantic City in at 36 chilly degrees up in the mountains this morning so, you know, when you actually is clear skies to work with the heat, bill up from the day before, can be easily lost to the atmosphere, so chilly start but as the day goes on, not bad looking day, further north you go the more sun off to the south there will be clouds that
Moved through you may have been caught in it in parts of pennsylvania and south jersey. If you look really close, when this band moved through with a few severe thunderstorms, it was a little bit of what we call a bow echo, a bend in the precipitation on the radar showing in western Chester County ackland some damaging winds. That is a signature when you see that bowing on a radar. We did see the damage. These are the report that is youre talking about, iain. The large scoreboard down and trees down on a car near the school as well. Now, that is long gone but we still have a few showers. The sun came out and now its fueling the atmosphere again. Were seeing showers popping up in Chester County, one with some rising air right there in Atlantic City so were looking at some spotty showers perhaps few downpours now that the atmosphere has warmed back up. Up to 62 degrees again in philadelphia and wilmington. Cooler in reading and the poconos it is 47 degrees. Looking ahead, were going to b