Many people think we are approaching the highest percentage of unemployed its the great depression. Needore than ever, people to know that americans are working for them. In a world where is no longer safe to be within six feet of each other, Congress Needs to learn how to adapt. It is not the first time we have had to ensure the continuity of congress. With the Nuclear Threat during the cold war, the u. S. Government constructed a large bunker for congress. We would be required to meet outside of washington. This may either first time in the modern area where there is not a physical meeting location at risk, but rather elected officials themselves and others we would be in contact with. We are a subcommittee of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, which has jurisdiction over congressional organizations. Its important we look at this issue on how to govern during these sorts of times. From that perspective, while we wait for guidance on how to conduct more formal h
Im Walter Isaacson, and im Walter Isaacson and im with the Aspen Institute here and its our pleasure at the institute to be the host and the facilitator of the franklin project. The project began when general Stan Mcchrystal was out talking about the importance of National Service two or three years ago in aspen, and everybody related to it, and one of the things we try to do here at the institute is turn thought into action, so we said, well, if this is important, lets try to create a program around it. General mcchrystal agreed to chair it. He also thought to himself, im never going to raise another idea in aspen again. You get enlisted if not drafted to do something, but i think he was able to convey to us that this works on so many levels. I mean, this is an important thing that every kid in america could have the rite of passage that previous generations had. Secondly, the notion that theres an expectation and an opportunity to be able to engage in National Service. I think both a
That is true. A lot of the search costs for finding things have been obliterated. It used to be you could find a criminal record in the basement of city hall. The internet has obliterated that. People are concerned about the impact. What concerns me about the right to be forgotten is it has not been balanced with some of the other competing values such as the values of Free Expression and the benefit of the consumers right to know about things like whether a vendor has had bad reviews against them or a babysitter has had criminal offenses. These are things that people could request to be removed from search results and i think thats very anticonsumerist. Is this a shift in thinking with google from a stance that used to say we index the internet. If you have a problem with that, please consult the internet. To a stance that says, there are a lot of tricky things that need to be balanced and may have quibbles with a privately activated process where a person comes to google and maybe a
Revenue from individual income taxes are expected to rise relative to gdp, because incomes will move into higher tax bracket as income gains outpace inflation to which the brackets are indexed. But those increases are expected to be offset by reduction in the Corporate Income tax and other sources. Turning from the budget of the economy, we anticipate that Economic Activity will expand at a solid pace in 2015 and the next few years, reducing the amount of underused resources or slack in the economy. In our estimation, increases in consumer spending, business investment, and residential investment will drive the next few years. The growth in those categories of spending will be run mainly from increases in hourly compensation, from rising wealth , from the decline in crude oil prices, and from a step up in the rate of household formation. As measured in the change from the Fourth Quarter of the previous year, real gdp will grow by 3 in 2015 and 2016 and by 2. 5 in 2017, we expect. The d
This is 90 minutes. Good morning. I feel like we should vote on something, but were not going to do that. My name is jonathan and on behalf of the Robert Kennedys school of politics and the internet association, im delighted to welcome everybody here and in the virtual world. We are live streaming. At least as far as i know. I would give you the url, but if youre on the lifestream, you party know it. If youre here, you dont need it. We are also being recorded for posterity. Our good friends and neighbors at cspan will be putting this up against the friday night battle between the house of representatives subcommittee on Veterans Affairs and a briefing at the treasury department. I think we are looking pretty good. Be aware. We are broadcasting. We are in the penthouse on the fifth floor of the kennedy school. The school is named after john f. Kennedy. The institute of politics here has been from the start designed to inspire and support the political aspirations and Public Service of y