Commission, why you put it together, who sits on it, and then we can talk about your recommendations. Good morning. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it. This was an unprecedented, historic crisis we were all facing a couple months ago and our president kay james looked at the debate as it was developing and really became concerned that there was this dichotomy between people who are arguing from a Health Perspective and others arguing from an economic perspective. At this point its a little hard to remember how separated people were in terms of Everybody Needs to stay home or people go back to work. We felt like it was important to lift our heads up and look over the horizon and say whats it going to take to talk about this issue about lives and livelihoods. She put the commission together and it was a fantastic experience and great group of people of 17 experts from all across the country in all different areas and walks of life. We wanted it to be something the National
Coexecutive director of the Heritage Foundations coronavirus recovery commission. She is also the Vice President of just talk about the commission, while you put it together, who sits on it, and that we can talk about your recommendation. Good morning and thank you for having me. Unprecedented historic crisis that we are all facing a we were all couple of months ago at our president looked at debate as it was developing and became concerned there was a dichotomy between people who were arguing from a Health Perspective and others arguing from an economic perspective. At this point, it is hard to remember how separated people were in terms of Everybody Needs to stay home or go back to work. We felt it was important to look over the horizon and say, what is it going to take to talk about this situation holistically . She put the commission together, and it was a fantastic experience and a great group of people, 17 experts from across the country in all different areas and walks of life.
I want to note our deep appreciation to the ford foundation, prudential financial, walmart, the Cigna Foundation and the Mastercard Center for growth for the support of opportunity in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we focus on advancing strategies, policies and ideas to help working people and Small Businesses thrive. Working people and Small Businesses are facing extraordinary challenges today with over 26 million recently applied for Unemployment Benefits and millions of Small Businesses at risk of closing for good. At the Economic Program we recognize for too long, race, ethnicity, gender and race have played out side role in who has access to opportunity and to a shutout. We see today black and latino workers being most affected by unemployment, and by the health risks that come with being classified as an essential worker. We see black and latino owned Small Businesses facing much greater vulnerability to the economic devastation of covid19 and more challeng
Discussions series in which we explore the landscape of Economic Opportunity and the implications for individuals and families and communities all across the United States. Our deep appreciation goes to the foundation walmart, cigna and Mastercard Center for their support of opportunity in america series. Focusing on advancing strategies and ideas to help Small Businesses thrive in working people and Small Businesses are taking extraordinary challenges in many a Small Businesses in the Economic Opportunity center to recognize the ethnicity and gender to play the outside role in who has access to opportunit opportunity. And we see today black and latino the health risk are black and latino Small Businesses with ability with covid19 and to get them through. Today is but talk to explore the history of the racial divine and the consequences and how we can emerge the Current Crisis what we had accepted as normal but a healthier society and a stronger economy to the nations ideals and shared
The weather is great, the sun is shining and i think its going to be a great day for Mike Bloomberg. Let me, i am the pleasure of introducing mike. I want to acknowledge again, i was commissioner, give it up again. To mayor garcia. I want to thank you for allowing me to be new york mayor. The me just say to you, what is important for a mayor, is getting things done. Because what is important to you is what happens at your home, or your street and in your community and in new york city and Mike Bloomberg was the mayor of new york city for 12 years and then, you can talk a good game but at the end of the day with people want people want results. They want things to happen that is positive and impacts them in their lives. They want to make sure when it comes to infrastructure, we are making those things take place. When job creations, and when i look at what Mike Bloomberg did in new york for 12 years, the creation of nearly 500 jobs, 500,000 jobs, 500,000 jobs thats a long ways from 500.