Foundations Young Leaders program director, colleen harmon. [applause] good evening. Afternoon. And welcome to the heritage event, how to have free speech and fight back. To those of you online, welcome. This month, millions of American Students will return to thousands of College Campuses across the country. We at the Heritage Foundation and the organizations that join us today want to help students learn what their rights are and how to protect them. We think this right of free speech to be absolutely essential to human freedom and flourishing and we want to help you exercise that right. For many, going back to school means selfcensorship, discrimination, and ridicule on the basis of their religion or their political beliefs. We are here today to help you with a stellar class of panelists will be helping us to work through this issue. First, we have sarah, the senior legal fellow for the center for legal and traditional studies, as part of an institutional government and heritage. Sa
We think this right of free speech to be absolutely essential to human freedom and flourishing and we want to help you exercise that right. For many, going back to school means selfcensorship, discrimination, and ridicule on the basis of their religion or their political beliefs. We are here today to help you with a stellar class of panelists will be helping us to work through this issue. First, we have sarah, the senior legal fellow for the center for legal and traditional studies, as part of an institutional government and heritage. Sarah joins heritage after serving on the council to the assistant secretary for civil rights at the u. S. Department of education, where she focused on policy reform, technical guidance, and the office for civil rights annual report to congress. While at ocr, she was the acting assistant secretary to a counsel and in coordination with the secretary for enforcement overview the hiring. She spent six years at the Family Research council as senior fellow fo
Afternoon. And welcome to the heritage event, how to have free speech and fight back. To those of you online, welcome. This month, millions of American Students will return to thousands of College Campuses across the country. We at the Heritage Foundation and the organizations that join us today want to help students learn what their rights are and how to protect them. We think this right of free speech to be absolutely essential to human freedom and flourishing and we want to help you exercise that right. For many, going back to school means selfcensorship, discrimination, and ridicule on the basis of their religion or their political beliefs. We are here today to help you with a stellar class of panelists will be helping us to work through this issue. First, we have sarah, the senior legal fellow for the center for legal and traditional studies, as part of an institutional government and heritage. Sarah joins heritage after serving on the council to the assistant secretary for civil
Eventually prevented over in the way because theres money in state does change the market entirely. We look at numbers. We look at the upside, the barriers and the obstacle. I give you a example. In many countries, tax is assessed on a family unit. Guess why . The marginal rate of taxation applies much more heavily on the second page. Guess what, women are generally paid less for the same job. They are the secondary ways. So they are taxed much more heavily because of the taxation system in place. If you change that instead of having a family unit, you have taxation of the individual and not discrimination, that this incentive goes away. Those are the kinds of things the imf for the first time in studying in details and with empirical data. [applause] if i could just add, you know, for many of us and before the lights when in my eyes i could actually see people i knew a tear. For many of us come in the argument for womens equality, for womens rights was first and foremost a moral argum
Possibilities. My own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to the congress to support Civil Society actors in a variety of countries and, of course, the National Endowment for democracy remains the pree moore institution in the world premier institution in the world for targeting assistance to democrats usually many tough places. So they know they have support from the outside community, from the International Community. So let me mention a couple of things just to wind up this opening scene setter. One is that i think we in the United States need to appreciate the Important Role that congress plays. While we disparage its occasional polarization and inability to resolve certain major things, the congress has been a major contributor to american democracy programming in a lot of ways. Not least in the creation of my part of the state department. You know, the bureau for democracy, human rights and labor was created 30 years ago over the objections of