Child, that would be the best thing that could happen for our country. To me, its absolutely the marriage rate. Brad wilcoxs article in the index makes it screamingly clear. Theres been a 10point reduction in the marriage rate in the last decade. What astonished me looking at the numbers again is that its been 50 since the era of the 19 physician. We all talk about out of wedlock childbearing. The childberg is not the problem. We are below replacement rate birth rate in the united states. Only two years of the last 42 have we been above replacement, even with the influence of immigrants to the country. Its the out of wedlock thing. And ill add one last point to that out of personal experience. I imagine theres some in the audience too. When young people come out of college, and theyre doing what we consider pursuing the American Dream in the right way, and their initial experience is a debt thats larger than the mortgage of their parents, we have a problem. It is its not the only reaso
And later a look at how diversifying americas workforce can be achieved by education and other means. The open Enrollment Period for purchasing Health Insurance on the federal marketplace began this weekend. The alliance for Health Reform recently hosted a discussion on what enrollees can expect and the improvements after last years rollout. This is an hour and a half. Hi, my name is ed lawrence and i want to welcome you to todays program on the Health Insurance marketplaces or exchanges. Some of you may have heard that tomorrow, that is november 15th begins the second open enrollment season for plans offered through the marketplace. That period runs through february 15, far shorter period than the sixmonth open enrollment time that we had last season. We all know that market places had some major problems with aspects of their operations, im sure well hear some about that today as well as hearing about the steps being made to improve that functionality. And we also wanting to look clo
Working on 15 bills under suspension of the rules. The 2015 student cam bit of competition is underway. Create a five to seven minute documentary on the same very three branches and you on policy, law, or action by the executive, legislative or Judicial Branch of the federal government has affected you or your community. 200 cash prizes for students and teachers totaling 1000. With a list of rules and how to get started, go to studentcam. Org. Live today on the cspan networks from our remarks but the chair of the nicaragua trade commission at 1 00 on cspan2. Also, criminal defense lawyers and a report from their National Association on our companion network cspan3 at 1 00 eastern. This weekend, president obama wrapped up his weeklong tour of the asiapacific region with a stop in brisbane, australia. He spoke for about 40 minutes. [applause] thank you. Thank you so much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Please, take a seat. Hello, brisbane. It is good to
Going on in the United States. There are many people representing here coming from the shale gas revolution and so forth. What is the potential for American Growth in general and manufacturing in particular from this Energy Revolution interview . In your view . When you dont cheat because you cant achieve, it is sad. When you dont achieve because you wont achieve, it is tragic. That is the way to think about this. Possibility ofhe exporting natural gas, if we open up the pie more fully, we open up the possibility of exporting crude oil, if we regulate strongly and soundly quickly,decisively and we have the potential to change the American Economy and the world. We have the potential, there is no question, within the next decade for america to have the kind of influence in the world because of its ability to export fossil fuels that saudi arabia has had for the last several decades. Think about what that means for our influence in the world. Think about what that means for our capacity
There are, of course, speculations and from the arm from their own point of view there are pluses and minuses what they would do, partly in their relations with china. And so somebody in north korea or some group is thinking about the strategic and tactical implications of whatever they do, and they obviously have some kind of a roadmap which they are going to follow through. But the problem is that, short of complete turnaround by china, even though china is gradually inching towards putting more pressure on north korea, i think our reaction at the u. N. Or other collective reaction, or individual reaction, would not be much more than the usual drill that we have to. Im sorry. Let me just make one comment about the test. We placed enormous importance to the fact of testing. We think as if it is by testing north korea comes to have this big Nuclear Weapon that they did not have before or something. But that tends to mislead ourselves to think that by preventing them from the fourth tes