Pages, documents and objects and we collect material up to the present day. We like to say that we tell a global story through a massachusetts lens. If youre interested in learning more about the society, we have all the programs we are putting on, including the other events series. G the please visit our website. Academic seminars made possible we have by our donors. If youre interested in supporting us, visit our website for more information. This series, the legacies of 1619, it marks the 400th anniversary of the first recorded landing of africans at an english colony in north america. We thought this would be a great opportunity to have a retrospective look at africanamerican history over the course of 400 years. The First Program today is titled recognition and resilience. All the panelists will be speaking to that theme. Some element of that theme as we get going. We are in the historic african meetinghouse. We are very thankful to the museum of African American history for hosti
Thank you for your service past and present to the country and to fellow veterans. We are honored to work alongside you. That is exactly what we will do over the next few days. We will be working together. Not in a typical way and not our daytoday work. You will have an opportunity to pause and take a step back from the day to day grind and challenges. All of those things we struggle with every day and think about what we are doing and why. Are going to think about what we know and what we dont know. Those of you know me know that formal remarks are not my specialty. I want to show hands, how many of you that when we set it will be data, where like all. A show hands. It is okay. I am a selfprofessed data geek. I had that feeling to. I want to talk to you about why data is important. Sometimes it feels abstract and disconnected from reality. Sometimes it is dry and boring. Not really connected to the veterans we serve every day. We are here to serve veterans but data can help you we can
Later in 1965 to combat poverty rebuilding our cities and making housing more affordable by all. Yet by every official measure, poverty and its consequences is as bad as 50 years ago. Poverty rate today is essentially unchanged from when hud was founded. Millions of more americans fall below the poverty mark, including an unbelievable one out of five children. This is shameful. Hud says its mission is to build quality Affordable Homes for all and yet, according to inflation figures, the median price of new homes as doubled and median rents have gone up by more than onethird. In other words, its not just the poor who find the cost of housing beyond their means, its almost everyone. This is unacceptable. To make matters worse, to achieve this unenviable record, hud has spent 1. u dollars and is asking for a 9 budget increase. 1. 6 trillion is more than 13,000 for every household in america, equivalent to the cost of feeding a family of four for an entire year. Meanwhile, one of our great
Later in 1965 to combat poverty rebuilding our cities and making housing more affordable by all. Yet by every official measure, poverty and its consequences is as bad as 50 years ago. Poverty rate today is essentially unchanged from when hud was founded. Millions of more americans fall below the poverty mark, including an unbelievable one out of five children. This is shameful. Hud says its mission is to build quality Affordable Homes for all and yet, according to inflation figures, the median price of new homes as doubled and median rents have gone up by more than onethird. In other words, its not just the poor who find the cost of housing beyond their means, its almost everyone. This is unacceptable. To make matters worse, to achieve this unenviable record, hud has spent 1. u dollars and is asking for a 9 budget increase. 1. 6 trillion is more than 13,000 for every household in america, equivalent to the cost of feeding a family of four for an entire year. Meanwhile, one of our great
Later in 1965 to combat poverty rebuilding our cities and making housing more affordable by all. Yet by every official measure, poverty and its consequences is as bad as 50 years ago. Poverty rate today is essentially unchanged from when hud was founded. Millions of more americans fall below the poverty mark, including an unbelievable one out of five children. This is shameful. Hud says its mission is to build quality Affordable Homes for all and yet, according to inflation figures, the median price of new homes as doubled and median rents have gone up by more than onethird. In other words, its not just the poor who find the cost of housing beyond their means, its almost everyone. This is unacceptable. To make matters worse, to achieve this unenviable record, hud has spent 1. u dollars and is asking for a 9 budget increase. 1. 6 trillion is more than 13,000 for every household in america, equivalent to the cost of feeding a family of four for an entire year. Meanwhile, one of our great