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Good afternoon, everyone. If we could have our seats to begin the last session today. I think this is a very impressive gathering as we have thelast session and reflection on the quality of our speakers. And the importance of this topic. I am chair of the ngas Economic Development and commerce committee. Delighted to be joined by Governor John Hickenlooper and the panelists today that we will introduce shortly. Begin, the topic is state economies and the future of work. As i look around, everybodys economy is booming. In arkansas, last year we reached the lowest Unemployment Rate in the history of the state. Reach that low Unemployment Rate, as is in many of our states, you look at how we can expand our working population, it increased the whoning, particularly those may have been difficult to find a job, dont have the level of training needed. That is the challenge we all face. Have done a we couple of things, in terms of technology. We initiated our Computer Science initiative to hav