Good afternoon. Welcome to the center for strategic and international studies. Welcome as well to our viewers online. My name is jacob kurtzer, im the acting director of the humanitarian agenda here, a project that we seek to leverage the expertise of our scholars and programs to offer policy solutions to humanitarian problems in the world today. I would like to direct everyones attention too our emergency exits, its part of our safety and security plan, and encourage you also to take this opportunity to turn your phones to mute. I want to acknowledge before we begin the partnership that our program has with the agency for International Development whose support allows us to put on events such as todays discussion. We have a short time today so ill be brief. All of us here today are keenly aware of the immense human suffering taking place in idlib and across syria right now. Families and individuals have been forced into multiple displacements, with targeted attacks ongoing on innocent
Care about jobs. If youre american and you want to work, were going to put you back to work, businesses. Why should the people out here care about this issue . Starting with you, scott. Thank you, lawrence, and im so happy to be here with you all at cpac. You know, the president has set forth policies that give the people of america inside of the communities an opportunity to start businesses, to build new homes, you know, to be selfsustaining, to be selfgoverned and fulfill the American Dream and really to fulfill their godgiven potential. I have the honor of the white house the opportunity and revitalization council, which works inside the nations Opportunity Zones. Opportunity zones bring stake holders together inside of communities that havent seen investment in decades. Youre talking about elected officials, community leaders, faith leaders, education leaders with developers and entrepreneurs sitting at the same table at the same time having a hard conversation. You know, whats th
Departments, customs and Border Protection in the cdc. Sen. Ted cruz, cheers this size transportation subcommittee hearing. This hearing is called to order. On december 30th, 2019, doctor lee, 34 yearold ophthalmologist and wuhan central hospital, ten to a group chat he was in with some friends from medical school to discuss a sars like illness, and recently been making people sick around the city and he posted it alive analysis that had found sars coronavirus and extensive bacteria colonies innovations airways. Is that this new wellness webelos hospital 214 some patients in the emergency department. So frightening, member of the group chap replied. It sars coming again. And this Chinese Communist government, which like all Authority Ten james, is often more concerned about protecting its image in the life and safety of its citizens. It was not please. And even a dedicated Health Experts scribbled. To collect more information on what was happening, china Security Services were busy try
The u. S. A recent gallup poll found one fourth of americans say they or a Family Member delayed treatment for a serious medical condition because they couldnt afford it. Thats where volunteer health clinics, like remote area medical or ram are stepping up to fill the gap. Ram, and its volunteer doctors, have provided more than 785 thousand patients with free medical care since 1985. And the number of individuals served has more than doubled just in the last six years. At a recent twoday clinic in suitland, maryland, near washington, d. C. , people lined up outside in the cold waiting for care and once inside, they were grateful for the help. At least somebody cares. With the big government, they dont care. Especially if you cant afford it. You go to a hospital, which ive had many times, and i get these outrageous bills. But i have to go to the hospital. I dont have a choice. Soledad jeff eastman is the ceo of remote area medical. Thanks for joining me. Walk me through how it works. Ho
I want to welcome you all to a discussion about the possibilities of ranked Choice Voting, potentially solving a bunch of different challenges. This is an event in a series of events for new americas 20th anniversary. It was founded in 1999. We are creating a home for new generation of people and ideas across a wide range of Public Policy questions. I am kind of an of the oldtimers, although i was not here in 1999, although i knew the founders and saw the creation of it. Thefundamental ideas about political system had been part of the dna of this organization from the beginning, as my colleague reminded me that ranked voting was in the book that the founders wrote called the radical center. It was one of the ideas that they promoted. That book is not viable for what we do, but it is part of it. Informn i came back to the Political Reform Program in 2014, and our founding idea is that we introduce fresh and getting into the conversation about reforming american democracy and getting bey