Second, we need to empower citizens with information and tools to make the governments more effective and accountable. Third, we need to build a Global Movement to prevail over corruption. The World Bank Group will be creating a single pool of technical experts in rule of law, public sector, financial him and state management and public sector, financial, state management, public improvement. We know that we and our partners have had an impact. For instance, when corruption threatened to derail the Critical Power project for Southern African countries, the world bank intervene, preventing more than 6 million from being misused. In afghanistan, we supported a network for integrity and reconstruction, which trained 980 people who have monitored 281 Infrastructure Projects with 247 million. 83 of the concerns they raised have been addressed. Through Innovative Solutions in key sectors like engineering and consulting, we have convinced major firms to commit to clean business practices. We
You can see that we are near a 60 year high. Weve come somewhat off it, were near a 60 year low in revenue. That says to me weve got to work both sides of the equation. Those who say weve got a spending problem have it half right. We also have a revenue problem and both sides have to be addressed. Our gross federal debt surpassed 100 of our g. D. P. This year. It is projected to rise to 115 by 2022. The definitive work on death studied 200 years of financial history, looked at dozens of countries and concluded once you reach a gross debt of more than 90 of g. D. P. , your future economic prospects are affected in a negative way. You have reduced Economic Growth once you get to a gross debt of more than 90 of your g. D. P. As you can see, weve passed that marker. We are over 100 of g. D. P. , we are headed for 115 of g. D. P. If we fail to act. This is why many of us have called for action. It was six years ago this month that senator greg and i first came up with a commission to addres
Nominations i dont have my line in here but you only have a few that are not competitive. Versus incumbent renominations that rarely are these things competitive. Betweennd difference these indicators, democrats versus republicans. There is a distinct party difference for this timeframe. Campaigns contents are bit more competitive overall. Republican campaigns typically are not as competitive. Intraparty trends. This is perhaps the most fascinating thing as far as looking ahead toward 2016 and beyond. Haveratic nominations become somewhat less competitive over time. This is suggesting democratic a couple of things. One, the Democratic Party is a little more unified. It also could mean perspective candidates are little more strategic about calculating their chances and not running, which is also a possibility. Republican nominations in contrast, basically competitive in the 1970s. Ray nagin reagan comes along and you have a great deal of unity in the party and that maybe fragmenting in
The top news story of the year peter and your emails of the year. And your emails and tweets. Earlier this month, a makeover spoke aboutum a women in congress and why they believe there should be more. Held by politico, this is half an hour. Good morning, im a senior political reporter and i am delighted to be joined to my colleague who is our senior washington correspondent and an esteemed group of women who example five the topic of our conversation, the peacemakers. With us this morning we have a democratic congresswoman from hawaii, democratic senator from minnesota, a republican congresswoman from florida and a republican from missouri. Do not forget to tweet questions and comments using women inrule. Thank you for joining us for this conversation. We want to start the conversation with you senator, there has been talk about how ,omen in the senate get along bipartisan, they have dinners. How well do you know these women . We are really good friends. When people talk about how, in
You can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages. He very good sunday morning to you. I want to start with a few headlines from papers from around the country on this idea of the American Dream. Some recent columns in the wall street journal and a few others on the subject. Robert reich the former labor secretary of the United States, his column from december 26. We will be talking about this issue of the American Dream for the first 45 minutes. That subject has also been in discussion already in 500 or so posts on our Facebook Pages morning. I will read you just a few of those. I want to read you little bit from that piece. That is a bloomberg poll. We also have a poll on our Facebook Page. Is the American Dream still attainable . Right now the results seem to be tracking the same as that bloomberg poll heard about 240 seven people saying yes it is still attainable and 404 people saying no, it is not. Be talking about this subject, taking your calls and comments.