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Especially for those living in foldable communities. The Treasury Department released a report the day of this event. This is hosted by the urban institute in washington d. C. It runs about an hour and 20 minutes. Welcome and good afternoon. I am Vice President here at the urban institute the centron labor, human services. And also a Financial Wellbeing expert. So todays topic is near and dear to my heart. Thank you to all of us who joined both in the room today and online. Before a jump in here are a few notes on housekeeping. One the event is being recorded. The recording and relevant links will be posted online after the event. If you are joining us virtually the are turned on you can adjust those at the bottom of your screen. And if you are in the room you can use the qr code thats on all of your table to submit your questions and that virtual audience can submit your questions directly into the question and answer box at any time. We are going to be sharing a link with a post even
Bank visible and welcome. We begin with some breaking news authorities and thailand, say 3 people have been killed in a shooting at our shopping bulls in bangkok. Several others are injured. Authorities said the attack, it has been arrested. Hundreds of people who are inside the upscale shooting sit Shopping Center at the time of the shooting. And lets take you over life to met hunter freelance, photo journalist whos based in the type capital mat. Could you tell us about the incident and how it unfold . Or yeah, so what we know is that today around 4 to 4, 30 pm, the very heavily crowded area of Central Business district in bangkok which is square c. Im paragon, is located shots right now in the middle of the mall. And people immediately began slipping from the inside of the mall and also posting videos to social media showing that there was chaos inside. And so what also happened shortly thereafter was that the connected train station, which is a part of the Public Transportation syst
I paid for the will and welcome. We begin in thailand where Authorities Say at least one person has been killed in a shooting at a bank of Shopping Mall. Several of those were injured in the attack, which happened in one of the bank called supposed popular shopping and leisure sentence. Hundreds of people were inside the luxury mole. When sean sprang out, police say they have detained a 14 year old suspects. Earlier i spoke to bank of based photo journalist mad hunter told us more about thailands policy on arms control. Yeah, so the common narrative is that thailand is a pretty safe place with regards to guns. However, there are a lot of unregistered guns here, and there is actually a lot more gun crime that is reported. However, this time last year, for example, and non go onto, there was a tragedy that involved the shooter and they went on to just stab children out in elementary school. And that then led to more investigation into the issue of a legal gun ownership. Here in thailand
Reach. We meet the cranium, children, and families living within range of rushing up to the guy that is welcome to the program. At least 57 people have been killed in 2 separate suicide bomb attacks targeting religious events and pa, cust. On the 1st bloss decode and the south west, the a must. On the 2nd in hong go in the northwest blossom, a stone struck a religious procession that was mocking the birthday of the stomach prophets mohammed dads attack claims. At least 52 lives. Several more people have been killed in the northwest where another most was targeted. So far theres been no claims of responsibility for either attack i am i asked the journalist, the scene, a boss and his mom about who might be responsible for these attacks . Well, it seems like it was a coordinated effort given the similarity and the nature of the targets and the expectation that many people would we gather not only for friday prayers, but also to celebrate the prophet mohammed, pc of on his birthday. The da