Extension. If the president signed that . The im not sure that anybody knows what the outcome of the situation is going to be. We saw the speaker of the house going on television over the weekend to declare that he is certainly comfortable with not funding the department of Homeland Security. I am not sure what kind of an of general mlss leads to that conclusion. And im not sure that its in the best interest of the vote tabulation that i can see. But yet he said that its on the left. And i think that does raise some questions about whether or not this new governing public and majority in congress is committed to actually being responsible in acting at the best interest to get one of the things he said at the end of last year was one of his goals was to make sure that Republican Leadership didnt appear scary to the american people. He was setting the bar really low. It looks like right now they are prepared to wiggle underneath the bar. We are going to see what should emerge as a plan f
Inequality. If you look at what actually happened to people, a lot of what matters, they are aftertax income and weve had substantial tax cuts in middleclass families, make tax cuts permanent that are worth thousands of dollars a year, had additional tax cuts for the areas like the itc and Child Tax Credit and on top of that you have the Affordable Care act. When you take all that into account, the policies of this administration have substantially reduced income inequality relative to what you otherwise would have had. In terms of the underlying trend in the economy i think that challenge is to with this and their dynamics, technology, education, globalization institutional changes, declining value of the minimum wage, all of those factors i think our continuing you know to create an underlying challenge to inequality and thats what were proposing all the steps we are for minimum wage to education to shaping globalization in terms are good for American Workers and the American Economy
A but all this says something about what happens when America Withdraws from the world, why doesnt play the role we needed to play. Not because were we are altruistic. We are not after doing these for the other countries. We are doing it for our benefit. If we dont do it nobody else is going to do that for us. Thank you very much. [applause] this week on cspan in primetime, three nights of attacks between between executives and innovators driving todays most successful internet companies. It should be a bit late or something but instead its just a taxi. And for that privilege of leasing that car for 40 grand a year, he gets to be impoverished. Here from insiders at facebook, paypal and more all part of a special presentation while congress is in recess. Israel, that probably went Digital First for gdp growth job creation minority, arabs, health care, education to every location, moving a city south. Three nights of tech tonight at 7 p. M. Eastern on cspan. We are live now at the Brooki
Of Public Employee unions with university of Washington Labor studies director michael mccann. This event from january is hosted by town hall seattle. Its about an hour. [applause] thank you so much for coming out. Ive been really looking forward to this having read daniels book and whether you agree with it or not, he presents some really interesting arguments that were going to get a chance to get into here. Of our format this evening is going to be fairly simple. Theyll be ten minutes, first from daniel the guy with the tie and how many people are related to michael by the way . He said he had some relatives here. [laughter] so therell be ten minutes from daniel, ten minutes from michael, then five minutes each sort of to respond to one another x then im going to take the moderators prerogative to ask 15 minutes of questions of my own roughly and then youll have a chance to come to the microphones to ask your open questions. This is being recorded by cspan for possible broad and by
Minimum requirements if were looking at the high noncompliance rates of utilities, the problems with 56rdability, the problems with small customer bases that just some great emphasis needs to be paid to providing more funding for these disadvantaged and smaller communities. My home state of texas has a lot of money theyre putting into water problems as a result of droughts. Californias done the same thing. Each state runs it different. A lot of states put extra money in. Some states dont. But i think its good. G. A. O. s done a terrific job at looking at some of these issues and i would encourage them to continue to do so. Thank you. My last question for mr. For mayor keegan mr. Newman and mr. Sellman, can you just given us briefly your success on the state resolving fund versus the r. U. S. , or do you access that . Why dont we go with mr. Keegan first . Sure. We havent had very much success. Weve had some limitations due to the average income of ow community. Weve been told its been