The citys finances, its hiring practices and accusations of socalled pay to play politics. A recent poll has found mayor emanuel lead aring 58 to 30 with 9 undecided. The debate was moderated by bill ponce of wttwtv which cohosted the event along with the city club of chicago. This is just under an hour. Smart people may disagree about what makes a great city but part of what makes chicago great is we dont have to agree. To run a city like ours, a lot of issues come up. The city club of chicago is a place to debate those issues ask hear from the men and women whoo shape the policies, lead the t industries and tell the storiesis, that define our city. For the free and open exchange of ideas the city club of chicago. Moderator good evening and is welcome to chicago tonight,ood im phil ponce on this tuesday, march 31st. The final forum between the two candidates running for mayor of chicago, that is the full hour next on chicago tonight. Moderator the stakes in chicagos Mayoral Election c
Institute for International Economic economics. Its an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to our previously schedule programming. It is my pleasure to continue from our Economics Panel according to our practical world. We have as a special treat today, Mark Bertolini the chairman and ceo of aetna who is going to talk about the role of Corporate America in reestablishing the american middle class. Thats about as targeted and blunt a title as you can have, which i find very typical of mark. Many of you have become familiar with him recently he got him mens coverage in the New York Times and elsewhere for his leadership. I think it is fair to say the word leadership and taking aetna forward and then amongst other companies in vool tearvoluntary raiseing the wages of its vast share of low wageworkers within its company, something that so far at least none of the other Major Health Insurers in the u. S. Have announced. We have gotten to know mark over the last few years. Hes been a me
Out to more people has to be doubled, has to be made more real. And that brings us to the issue of education where we know there is a huge deficit in the region. The regions Higher Education institutions remain not up to the challenge of the 21st century, and many leaders recognize this. So we will continue to push where we can with 100,000 strong in the americas program, which was now awarded 38 innovation grants to 100 Higher Education institutions in 12 countries. I am proud we are continuing to work on this and really moving ahead with a lot of private sector partnerships in a lot of countries, but we need to do even more at partnering. We know that wholesale connection, what we are doing is connecting institutions to institution. We are not funding individual scholarships. We know that connecting universities and colleges to universities and colleges will raise the number of students who go on these exchanges faster than funding individual scholarships. We have seen the numbers of
Called, w j. C. , llc. Clinton used it to stash his consulting fees. Here to weigh in on the latest clinton discovery, guy benson, townhall. Com, fred barnes Weekly Standard and Michael Goodwin from the new york post. Welcome all. Michael, start with you. What do you make of this . A secret company set aside for the sole purpose of passing money a passthrough agency. Everybody does it, come on michael. What is the problem . Dont you have one . I have one. The clintons when you look at the structure of their financial dealings, we know the foundation. The foundation has numerous spinoffs. Clinton this, clinton that everything. Gerri right. You have got this media matters this arm they use to attack their critics money passing through Sidney Blumenthal to there as well as the foundation. Now we have this one. There is a lot of overlapping corporations at that all seem to fall under this. It is a little bit like the way the mafia operates frankly. Gerri the way the mafia operates. The way
Later, the Consumer Confidence number is released for september. We were originally speccing Housing Starts at 8 30 eastern today. Permits will hit the tape, but the government is delaying the starts and completions again. They are still blaming the shutdown for this. The Commerce Department now plans to share that information on december 18th. We go from the economy to earnings. This mornings horts include hormel, tiffanys, and barns noble. Also, other market related news, takeover premiums are shrink to go historic lows. The wall street journal reports more than 9300 deals and so far this year the average premium has only by 19 of a target the week before. That compares to a historic average of 30 . Among those factor tos are booming economy, a worry Interest Rates will rise. Market vaum is an issue. You have to look in two different places to figure out what that word might be. Beyond the market is the other top story, the severe storm threatening parts of the country. The big mess