A warm welcome to all of our viewers around the country and on cspan. We will be archiving the video for this event so you will have an opportunity to view it later. So if you would like, at brookings. Edu. We welcome any questions or comments you have while we set up a twitter feed at cjreform, so you are welcome to post any comments you have. Our prisons are overcrowded and there are Racial Disparities in sentencing. We need to develop alternatives to existing policies. Today we will be discussing criminal Justice Reform and how to approach that issue. To help us think about that, i am pleased to welcome Governor Terry mccullough. Many of you know him as the governor of the commonwealth. He helped to create and build a 21stcentury economy. But, he is also committed to bettering the lives of ordinary people. After the tragic violence in charlottesville, he spoke out forcefully about hatred and bigotry. Just the other weekend, he hosted a weekend to bring together juvenile inmates and
About your book from october 31st, 1996. You know, this is my last campaign and maybe i will run for school board someday. [laughter] brian your book is called the last campaign. You say in the book that moment got you the title. Why . Anthony i saw that moment in a Political Science budget class in 2003 and decided to write my thesis for that semester on that idea that a president ial library is the president last campaign, not the final electoral contest. And when i finished that paper, my professor said this is a book, you should consider making this into a book. A week later, i got into an rv i had and traveled to all the president ial libraries in six weeks, the once i had not been to yet. I came back convinced that maybe there was more than a book in it. For me, going to the president ial libraries was only the beginning of the journey. Because seeing the libraries as a tourist was different from researching in the records and going to the National Archives and seeing how the lib
Cspan. Org and listen ton the free cspan radio app. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. Cspan was created for americas Television Companies brought to you by our cable and satellite providers. Ashington journal. Our national right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and start by reminding our viewers what right to work laws and what the foundation does. Guest our right to work law protects every workers right to join the union but would not contemplate workers being fired from their jobs for dues or fees to a organization, the labor union. 28 states have right to work laws on the books. One, missouri is being contested at this point and probably will wind up on the ballot in 2018. Over the past five years, six new states passed right to work laws and again, its very simple and protects a workers right to join or not join a labor union as a condition of employment. Host you mentioned right to work laws state a map on your website showing those states with right to work laws on the books. W
Its more than george soros. So somehow claiming poverty in the Union Movement is not a legitimate argument. Maybe for a local union in ohio it might be but for the National Unions they are political powerhouses with lots of funds. As far as the right to Work Legal Defense Foundation we rely on contributions given voluntarily to support the work we do. The average contribution is around 74 and we get reports from private foundations and individuals mostly, some Small Businesses but not Large Businesses by any stretch of the manual nation. Host james, line for independents, go ahead. Caller here in michigan, i know back in 2012 michigan went right to work but interestingly enough, you have police and fire lobby, those unions lobbies very hard and it was granted to them. Michigan state Police Troopers had the constitutionally right to collectively bargain since the michigan constitution was ratified in 1963. My question is twofold. One, what efforts is your organization making to ensure p
Ideally im raising their wages. Go, what kind u of business is it . Practice. Have a law host ben zipperer. Uest nathan raises a lot of points that resonate with me. One, i think there are two out of t points coming what nathan is saying, one is that when you raise the minimum its more expensive to hire people. However, it is easier to recruit higher in workers the wages that you pay and that is one reason why businesses have adjust to higher minimum wages. Second important point is sometimes that businesses do have a hard time oping with minimum wage increases or wage increases generally. Factorsre two offsetting to that. One is that when a business because of ages minimum wage increase, all usinesses have to raise their minimum wages and so there is less of a competitive business ge for raising wage. In addition to that, some hard time may have a with minimum wage increases, Research Shows that even if some businesses shrink in response to inimum wage increases, other businesses ente