President for research. He previously served heritage as Vice President for foreign and defense policy studies and director of our davis institute. Hes a Founding Editor of the annual index of economic freedom, which has become a signature heritage publication, from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organizations affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holmes. Kim. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Its a pleasure to welcome all of you here and to welcome our distinguished guests to talk about the refugee policy. We just recently were refurbishing this room, so youre one of the first guests to see how it turned out. The United States Refugee Admission Program has been, as all of you know, the subject of significant discussion and legal battles in the last year. Of course, some of these legal battles have ended up in the supreme court. Which well hear arguments this fall
Welcome to all of the American Enterprise institute. Im mr. Bigs, scholar here at aei, todays session is what can irs data tell us about Retirement Incomes. When i was give this task, i thought a b grade tag line of what if everything you knew were wrong. This is a modified version of the tag line. What if many of the things were wrong and what if many of those were about Retirement Incomes of it is a not as thrilling but its something that is very important. And i think the fact is that much of what we think about we know about Retirement Incomes, the statistics that drive Government Policies regarding Social Security and Retirement Plans may be wrong. We think we know what retirement rates are, poverty rates are, how much they receive from private Retirement Plans. Can i pull some of those statistics from my head. The poverty rate for americans over 65 is a little bit under 10 . About a third of retiries receive almost all of their income from Social Security benefits. Those are stat
Addiction hosted this panel during its annual convention in washington. This is 1 10. Good morning again, everyone. My watch says 11 20. Were going to go ahead and get started. My name is Curtis Taylor and im a person in long term recovery. I have not used alcohol or any other drug in almost 15 years now. [ cheers and applause ] please understand that is strictly by gods grace and mercy. Like marty walker, i take no credit whatsoever for all the good things god is doing in my life today. This particular panel is what my passion is many my life is dedicated to what we call reentry. Im dedicated to helping men and women transition from incarceration in a successful manner such that they never ever ever go back to prison. Thats what i get paid to do today. Imagine that. Over three quarters of the oxford house population has done some jail or prison time. I think only the senators aide has not. 70 of people in jails or prisons are addicted to alcohol or drugs. Every year thousands of them
America hosted the event late last month. Its just over twoandahalf hours. All right, so, before we have dr. Baligh yehia come up and give what will be great keynote remarks, i want to start the morning off with having a conversation with you about something thats near and dear to me as one of those who represent a Success Story of a great specialized care system, spinal cord injury and disease system of care. Before i get into exactly what the topic is, though, i want to ask a couple questions. What are some of the reasons why one becomes a clinician . Why did you choose to become a healer . Money . Raise your hand if its money. Bunch of millionaires in here, right . Social status. Everybody respects a doctor. Job security. Youre always going to have people focused on getting better, so you need people in those industries. And if youre a healer, youve got some job security if you do it well enough, and its probably a combination of all of those. But again, from the perspective of the
I have great pleasure in welcoming the Prime Minister of japan, his excellency, shinzo abe. And i invite him to address the general assembly. Mr. Abe [speaking japanese] please listen to channel seven. Our determination to Reach Agreement and a steadfast member manner, meeting quality japanment, moreover, what wants to safeguard is the free, liberal, International Order and multilateral framework. The world holds High Expectations toward the u. N. As the flag holder. The cityxactly why council should be reformed without delay, in response to the demands. Japan will strive, together with its friends, to achieve these reforms. I have confronted the state, japan wants to play an active role in world peace as a permanent member of the Security Council. I have no choice but to focus my remarks on a single issue, north korea. North korea conducted a nuclear test on september 3. Whether or not it was a Hydrogen Bomb test, its scale far preceded that exceeded that of previous tests. Both befor