Remained below 4 for the past 18 months. In recent years, weve seen consistently solid gdp growth and job creation. And yet not withstand the successes for many parents across this country, raising a family has become harder and more expensive than ever before. The New York Times recently surveyed adults 20 to 45 who were parents or planned to be. One in four had fewer children or expected to have fewer children than they considered ideal. Economic concerns were foremost among the reasons that they fell short or believed they would. Over the past few years, the joint economic committees social Capital Project has been documenting trends in our associational life, that is, the web of social relationships through which we pursue joint endeavors, our families, communities, workplaces, and religious congregations. A critical source of meaning and social capital is, of course, the family. In fact, it is the central set of headwaters for social connectedness generally. Thats why two of the p
And china were really close to a deal and that has really pushed markets to new highs over the past couple of weeks and this also is adding to concerns after. New tariffs again freya the u. S. France argentina brazil and the days theres really a lot of a lot of concern and uncertainty about how u. S. Trade policy is going to play out over the next several months or its whats most was there for the markets Josie Delaney in frankfurt thank you. Lets go to hong kong now where chief executive carrie lim says u. S. Legislation supporting protesters may damage Business Confidence in the Financial Hub she said the u. S. Move to sign into law a hong kong human rights bill was quote unquote wholly unnecessary the former british colony is currently going through its 1st recession in a decade as riots continue to spook tourists retail sales are also collapsing lammas announce new aid measure to try and boost the citys economy the government has already pledged 2700000000. 00 to help the transport
Caroline journey is editor of the book our first speaker is dr. Caroline janney. Dr. Janney is professor of American Civil War and the john l mau center for history at the university of virginia. She was a historian also at purdue university, an active lecturer, as you might imagine. She is coeditor at the North Carolina lecture presses civil war story, has published five books, some of them listed on your program. Civil war reunion and the limits of reconciliation. She edited petersburg, appomattox, the ending of the war in virginia, and another not on the list. Her talk today is we will not surrendered parolling lees rolling lees army after appomattox. applause good afternoon. It is nice to see so many familiar faces in the audience, and i know this is the time after lunch, this is why i usually choose the morning, because i know what happens after lunch. I will try to keep you all away. Thank you, to longwood university, for hosting us. Thank you to appomattox, especially robin snyd
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