Other reforms such as those that affect the labor, the product in the Services Market are likely to unfold positive results over the longerterm horizon. Yet they are essential to enhance productivity and innovation which in turn can be powerful antidotes to the impact of something that we cannot do anything about and that is affecting all of us beijing. Aging. We done a bit of research not so much on aging. Of the people can do that a little better that i but weve done research on Structural Reforms and weve try to flush out priorities and payoffs in the area of productivity growth Labor Participation entry. Let me take a break will put one after the other. Lets look at productivity growth. Reversing that decline in advanced economies requires lowering barriers to entry in products and Services Markets. Our research shows, for instance, that improving the allocation of labor and capital can significantly increase total factor productivity tsb as its called. Another example is the poten
And make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you example where we have had predisaster mitigation. States have taken that like in oklahoma to do grants to families to build safe roads for tornadoes. Our goal is to reduce risk. Theres a lot of driving factors of that and changing environment but when we want to look at, what are things as taxpayers if we can spend money on the front end and reduce future costs and potential disruptions to disaster. This is very much in our predisaster mitigation looking at it from outcomes that are based upon buy
After a punishing week of historic rain and deadly flooding. The wettest rain for texas and oklahoma just got wetter. A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect for dallas. And in hard hit wimberly texas, its starting to dry out. More than 70 search teams, 1500 volunteers in all, intensified their efforts to find several people still missing. We begin there tonight with Janet Shamlian in wimberly. Janet . Reporter good evening, floodwaters across texas are receding you would not know it to look at the fast moving blanco river right now. The storms are moving out. Right now were in the middle of a deluge tomorrow it should be dry. Finally some relief for people who need it. As rain moved out of hard hit wimberly more than 1500 volunteers came in, many with no connection to the community. Were just all devastated at what happens. This weeks historic flood destroyed homes and lives. And with five people still missing, those wanting to help arrived from as far away as atlanta to a local Church
Albeit under the watchful eye of more than a dozen police, a burned out drugstore is being evaluated by a corporate teen. People are hoping for normalcy. Yes, i think the people in neighborhood need them. I am happy to see things are getting back to normal around here. Brad then it happened. Tensions flare anew. The guy had a gun. Brad police an rehend a man with a gun. The suspect drops the revolver, it fires. Nobody was hit. But a National Cable network wrongly reports the police shot the man. An angry crowd gathers until officers are able to lower the temperature. The gentleman had a gun. The officers were approaching him, decided to arrest him with the gun. He tried to throw the gun away and the gun went off. He was throwing his gun down and the gun went off. No Police Officer shot anybody. Now this all happened about 2. 5 hours ago where you see the group of people in front of the yellow and red awning at the grocery store. You can see that things returned to normal here. The poli
After a punishing week of historic rain and deadly flooding. The wettest rain for texas and oklahoma just got wetter. A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect for dallas. And in hard hit wimberly texas, its starting to dry out. More than 70 search teams, 1500 volunteers in all, intensified their efforts to find several people still missing. We begin there tonight with Janet Shamlian in wimberly. Janet . Reporter good evening, floodwaters across texas are receding you would not know it to look at the fast moving blanco river right now. The storms are moving out. Right now were in the middle of a deluge tomorrow it should be dry. Finally some relief for people who need it. As rain moved out of hard hit wimberly more than 1500 volunteers came in, many with no connection to the community. Were just all devastated at what happens. This weeks historic flood destroyed homes and lives. And with five people still missing, those wanting to help arrived from as far away as atlanta to a local Church