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Good afternoon, good evening. Welcome. Happy fat tuesday, thank you all for spending you tuesday with us. Im joe could ross has been an important member of the institute, since our founding, hes been or media fellow and helped coordinate some of our events, some of our more contentious events. Youve may have seen ross was involved in. Were super pleased ross is joining today on i think the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know ross as one of the moe commenter men taters of the american culture, on the New York Times opinion page, written more than a few books and seem to all at least 0 couple of. The have the title of how we became something. Might want to steer clear of that or explain that. Anyway, today the format will be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book, i actually had the pleasure of reading it and its an interesting book. In my judgment not the sort of typical conservative harangue on the way things are but takes a nice tact to explore wha
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Hello, welcome back. Were going to get started on the rest of the event. So im very excited to introduce our next panel. Its all about the labor market. We have two great panelists. The first is were going to hear from katia peneva from the Federal Reserve board. Just to provide some context, thats the section thats responsible for preparing the forecast of inflation and wages and prices for the fomc. I have to admit that we were longtime colleagues and i want to assure any lawyers that are here that none of our conversation should be interpreted to constitute my making a request of katia, the Federal Reserve system or the fomc, so were clear. Our second panelist is jared bernstein, a senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities and hes been very active for many years thinking about the labor market, inequality and macro policy from his positions both within the Obama Administration and within various think tanks here in d. C. You can read more about his thoughts in his