Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa
I lead the policy Advisor Group here at the urban institute. If this is your first time at the urban institute, a very warm welcome to you. And if you are a regular participant in our live at urban events, welcome back. And also a warm welcome to those joining us today via the webcast and via cspan 2. We hope youre able to participate in the conversation. To follow it follow the hashtag live at urban. The twitter handles for all the participants are there so you can include us in your tweets. If you have a question and are watching this event on web cost or on cspan 2. You can email us at events. Urban. Org. We hope you do and participate in the conversation today. Let me say a little bit about urban. Urbans mission is to open minds, shape decisions and offer solutions through economic and social policy research. Weve been pursuing this mission since 1968 when president johnson created urban to help develop programs and strategies aimed at including the quality of life in central citie