Cspan. Org, or listen with the e cspan radio app area app. Joining us from north it new york is cassandra frederick. She is limiting director with the drug policy alliance. Thanks for being with us this morning. Startingd our program about the talk about the war on drugs and its legacy. We began this morning with a speech that happened 30 years ago from president george w. Bush. Here is part of that speech. This is the First Time Since taking the oath of office i felt an issue was so important, threatening, that it warranted talking directly with you. All of us agree that the gravest of mastic threat facing our nations drugs. It has strained our 30 faith and system of justice, our courts, prisons, legal system our break are at the breaking point. The social cost of drugs is mounting. Drugs are sapping our strength as a nation. Turn on the evening news or pick up the morning paper and you will see what some americans now just by stepping out their front door. Problem todayus is cocaine,
[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barred from casting a ballot which denies the right to participate in our democracy after they have paid their debt to our society. The impact of these barriers goes beyond those previous convicted of a crime. Criminal records are a family sentence. In fact, they have found that nearly half americans children now have a parent with a criminal record. Study after study has shown that the barriers associated with the parents criminal record can severely limit the childs opportunities and lead to worse
Good morning, everybody. So we will shift gears now building on the remarks from representative pose and representative crowly. We want to do three things. First we vpt to a conversation about what the pba accomplished and what was left undone. That is the purpose of this conversation. We will get indepth into it with really great speakers into what happened in the ten years since the tpa was passed, what it means for retirement in america, and what more needs to be done and hopefully that will tee up the next of the day. Followed by keynote remarks at 11 30 from edmond murphy, ceo of power retirements. And then is short break and we will have a second panel all about the path forward and what is the agenda for the next administration. So, what i am going to do, just a note on logistics. The way we would like to do is people make brief remarks and i will follow up with one question per person. Woel we will go down the row and have time for dialogue between the panel and questions and a
World something really big happened on monday. And that was there was agreement to actually increase the cpp. So we had a change in government last october. That was a positive on enhancing the cpp. Frankly, ontario would rather do something nationally with the other provinces than do things on their own. So the between ontario and the federal government and doing some further work, there was actually agreement on monday to do two things with respect to the canada pension plan. One was to increase the benefit, and number two is to increase the amount of income thats going to be covered by the benefit. So its a big deal in canada right up there with stabilizing the cpp in the 1990s. So theres a lot of detail to be worked out as to okay, exactly you get down to the bottom line what does it all mean in terms of implementation. A long window on implementation, starts 2019. Sevenyear window to implement the whole thing. That got agreement thats what got agreement from the hesitant provinces
Dollar bid for the swiss agri giant. U. S. Futures point higher after a roller coaster session yesterday sending the s p into negative territory for the year. We are waiting for a Volkswagen Press conference to begin. The car maker says it will bring us up to date on the diesel issue and reorganization of the group. Its due to start any minute now. We will bring you that live when it does start. The co2 part of the emissions scandal now as bad as feared but it was a much smaller percentage. It involves 2 billion euros that they set aside just in case so maybe they wont need to tap those reserves. We should point out that vw shares we are rising today in german trade up sharply following a surge. Its coming in better than expected than what they initially feared. Exactly right. Co2 is coming in better and it will be interesting to get this is the first Big Press Conference with the new ceo and the whole team lining up but well have a listen in now as the ceo begins to speak. Its good yo