Some of our very important Homeland Security initiatives until we have an appropriations bill. Its key that we get one. On the good news front the year ago there were a number of vacancies in the seniorlevel positions and we now have including myself over the last 12 months is to the hard work because 13 confirmed president ial appointments. We also have confirmed president president ial points and is the assistant secretary for legislative affairs in the new assistant secretary for public affairs. We have one nomination think an undersecretary for management to actually happens to be a former client of mine. The retired Vice President bird of Johnson Johnson russ dio who has impressed virtually every senator he has met. He will be a great addition to our team but im hoping he will be confirmed early in the new year. Its no accident that i selected somebody who was the Vice President for administration of Johnson Johnson which is a large decentralized Health Care Company with operating
Reasons. We ask all of you to be active participants in tweeting. In toms place, let me Say Something i think he might have wanted to say about the importance of race and space and the importance of the ways in which policing have defined the spaces propriety of citizenship, in the United States of america. Ferguson brings us here. Ferguson is just a metaphor for an ongoing history that the state forces, that the white citizens that sees white citizens and class as the defining marker for the ways in which race continues to be made in the united dates of america. That said, i want to thank jim grossman from the American Historical Association for encouraging panels like this that link the past, present, and future. We all know as members of this august association that the American Historical Association has not always been responsive to contemporary moments and sometimes has been on the wrong side of history. We want to applaud the leadership in this moment for allowing us to come tog
Two bills back together. But we made a very strong, powerful point throughout the entire debate about ending that unholy alliance between rural republicans and democrats. Just the decoupling is something that i think is a strategic goal of the policy. Absolutely. That was big time with that first time it had been in 50 years where they had been split for at least going through one body of the congress. This lady. Yeah. Part of the bill, is there any incentive in there for companies to work with companies who would hire welfare recipients to work so that that be a way of keeping track of the people who are looking for work . Years ago when welfare reform had first taken place, i was an Office Manager at law firm, and we brought in a young lady who had who was on welfare. She had to go to work. And part of it was that, i dont know. We had received a letter or something that encouraged Small Businesses to hire these young people. And then the Welfare Social worker had to send the individu
Have babies out of wedlock and whatnot, to that last category, giving money to them only injures them with a helping hand. I said that my own niece back in the 90s was an alcoholic, living in Public Housing. She had a small child. I spent a year and thousands of dollars tryings to wean her off of that. Found her an apartment in arlington, virginia, away from philadelphia. Found her a job. And i went to pick her up at 2 00 in the morning at one of the most dangerous Public Housing projects in philadelphia when i went out at 2 00 in the afternoon. She was drunk. And i couldnt compete against a Public Housing. I couldnt compete against food stamps. It was only after welfare reform two years afterwards where she compelled therefore to go out and work. And now she is on her feet. I say that to say that its important for us to disaggregate that and recognize that help to that third category, people on the left tend to look at all welfare recipients as if theyre category one. People on the ri
Three years of the war between the president s government and opposition forces. The mass exodus has caused tensions in neighboring jordan, turkey, and iraq. Millions more are displaced within syria. The two sides are unable to make progress towards peace during a recent conference in geneva. Thank you very much for joining us for todays discussion. My name is megan bradley, im a fellow here with the Foreign Policy program at brookings. In particular, i work with the brookings l. S. C. Project or internal displacement which works to promote the hueman rights and wellbeing of refugees and internally displaced persons around the world. In particular we work to support the mandate of the u. N. Special repertoire on human rights of internally displaced persons. The codirector of the project had hoped to be here today to moderate todays discussion, but unfortunately due to a family emergency was unable to be with us. Its a real pleasure for me to step in to moderate such an excellent discus