Hapter im excited to have you here today for our topic on occupational life insurance. This is actually occupational licensing. Occupational licensing laws established entry into professions and fields based on the allegation that the general safety and welfare of the community is served and protected by them. The reality is that connected Interest Groups favor occupational licensing for its anticompetitive effects. The fees and restrictions instituted by occupational licensure prevent entrepreneurial innovators who often come from modest backgrounds and represent vulnerable groups from efficiently providing consumers with better goods and services. Fallsus of these laws disproportionately on minority eliminates from the National Illumination of burdensome regulations and the expense of Economic Freedom and mobility. The Johnson Center for political economy recently did a study that was published in 2018 the cause of occupational licensing in alabama. We have dan sutter with us today w
A girl named tamara, lived on an indian reservation. She suffered great tragedy early in her life at age two. She was in a foster home. She was beaten very severely at a drunken party. Her arm, her nose, her leg were broken and she laid in a room with no medical attention. A horrific story. To tell you a little bit about how i came to write a book about it, she was featured in a news story about abuse of children at foster homes with a very large photograph in a newspaper about two years after this happened. And i went to the indian reservation when i read this story and raised a lot of hell with everybody. And i met with this girl and her grandfather. And we, you know, we visited. Then i sent her a couple of christmas gifts. Then her grandfather died and i lost track of her. I would always ask at the indian reservation, does anybody know what happened . The answer was no. No one knew. And 27 years later, i got an email from her. It turns out she has been homeless in minneapolis. Went
Opioids have exacerbated americas staggering overdose death rates. In 2017 moreor than 70,000 peope died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of injury related deaths in the United States. Se, 60 involve prescription opioids and illicit opioid such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older of abused opioid in 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americans died each day from an opioid openers. We did not know that some cost and disrupted lives or untimely deaths from widespread misuse of prescription and nonprescription opioids but we know from our family, our neighbors and our friend who bear the enduring lost loved ones that the opio crisis is not over. We must continue contending with this crisis. That being said, we made Great Strides over the past three years to help combat the epidemic, congress has passed landmark Bipartisan Legislation directed to combati
The next session is one that i had mentioned earlier, unfortunately glen olson could not make it. Rtunately, our other anelists, liza munday has agreed to expand on her original talk. To open the session and leave the conversation and q a after he presentation, we have asked barbier, katherine professor at the city state university, to lead the session. Catherine has been involved with our museum for over a decade and just two months ago, she upped organize a program where we had scholars from around the continent come for a daylong program. Catherines information is in your program. I point out that in addition to being a professor at Mississippi State university she is the author of two fine books, one entitled, the battle of kursk and the other, strategy and tactics. Ladies and jump in, dr. Catherine barbeeand liza mundy. [applause] good morning. Happy to see all of these nice faces outfront. This is a fantastic event and im excited about being part of it. I would like to introduce
Very briefly putting the role of mc just to say hello and welcome you before i hand the baton to tom bowman of National Public radio who will be our moderator. Tom is a very distinguished and accomplished npr reporter, also really thrilled he would join us. He spent ape lot time in a field field in afghanistan and elsewhere embedded with u. S. Combat units and other parts of the broader effort there that now is approaching the end of its second decade pretty soon. Next to tom and beforehand the baton to them i will just entered is my copanelists Laurel Miller who was the acting special representative for afghanistan and pakistan in the stick up romcom numerous other jobs in that capacity and that organization as well, has been at the Rand Corporation subsequently where she recently completed a coauthor 200 page study study on age proposed afghanistan Peace Agreement written as as a simulated or perhaps model agreement that parties themselves could perhaps consider because even though w