Need . Well, first, i would like to thank the interactivity foundation, open Society Foundation and helping the Community Start a dialogue of dealing with the issues and challenges of moms in our community especially places in washington, d. C. Where 91 of the 15 to 17yearolds are raised by Single Parents most of them mothers. It is very hard. You have peer pressure. You have social media. You have a lot of these mothers living in poverty and theres no a lot of conditions theyre in. A lot of people expect something to fall out of the sky and we dont have a strategy to uplift this population of women. They have done a great job right, but we havent ended poverty in america and in d. C. A lot of the moms are being pushed out. A lot of anxiety kicking in. Even our younger girls now in d. C. , 30 of the lockups in Juvenile Court are young females. Most of them for violent crime. Thats because we havent dealt with the fact that hurt people hurt people and a lot of the parents are dealing wi
Somewhere and thats not cool who works for aei and she is the timekeeper. Shes over there and she will be giving signs so that we can keep everybody on schedule. Im sorry to say that but thats part of what happens when youre trying to run a wellrun seminar. I want to say one last thing about seminars because roberta is from chautauqua county. Some of you may know that Chautauqua Institute is one of the earliest sort of institute of good thinking and sharing of ideas of the United States, and when president johnson was president , he would get frustrated with things that he would say we will have one of these darn chautauqua seminars. That didnt get a laugh i was hoping for but thats okay last night but the point is this is Something Like that. We want of a free and open discussion. And with that i will start with codel. Thank you very much. I do want to thank you all for coming. Its interesting we talk about it ever looks at the baptist preacher and said okay. Thats who we need to keep
Money linked to Guantanamo Bay detainees. Why the white house is now coming under fire. Hmmm. David all those stories in just a moment. First back to the markets. The dow sinking for the second day in the month with 3m, dupont and verizon among the biggest drags. Gold, if youre a gold bug like me youre taking a dive as well. Trader Scott Shellady is watching all the action on commodities from the cme. Lori rothman on the stocks at the nyse. Lori, what is driving stocks lower today . Boy, a lot of up and down, david. We end the day with losses. It was a global story. Investors here in the u. S. Are looking across the pond and concerned about, renewed concerns if you will about the impact brexit will have the on the uk economy and obviously contagion effect here in the u. S. As you know theresa may, put the deadline, the march date to put process for the uk to exit the eu imf basically saying it expects u. S. Inflation to rise faster than the fed does. So that puts pressure on all the ha
When you go to high school, and when you graduate, you are not just getting a high school diploma, you are certified to work. [applause] we have lowered Vocational Education to the seventh grade. It is already done in our state. Secondly, we have to Pay Attention to Early Childhood education. We cannot have people who are extremely poor, where they can not have the kind of development in their brain that they need because as we know, if they dont get it, as they get older, they lose the capacity to do as well as they can do. Early childhood education, Vocational Education. Here is another thing. We have to raise the standards of our Guidance Counselors so that they actually died the students and are not just involved in monitoring the gym or the cafeteria. I think it should be done across the country. We know the end demand in state. Jobs in our we need to be sure be are educated people, k12, for the jobs that exist. A the old days, you could get High School Education, and if he did no
Say in the inner cities why are 50 of the kids dropping out of high school . Those kids are observant and they look around and say im not getting educated anyway. Wese are situations that have to avoid. We only have 330 million people. We have to compete with china, india. We have to develop all of our people and for everyone of those kids we can keep them going on that path of selfdestruction, thats one less person we have to be afraid of, one less person we have to pay for in the welfare system, one more productive number of society who may discover a new in Energy Source or a cure for cancer. We cannot afford to throw any of our people away. [applause] the single most instructive force for Public Education in this country is the Teachers Union. [applause] we got a lot of reforms done. We reformed teacher tenure in new jersey. We set up a Public School choice program. We increased our charters to the largest number we had bad in history we have had in history. People really enjoyed i