emotion. i would just like to see people like carson, who get into the get into the health professions or the social programs be conservative so there would be more balance in people s thoughts. you agree with kirstin powers? caller: yeah, i do. thank you. front page of the washington post also focusing on china and its currency as the country putting its credibility on the line with its move of the chinese currency. donna is the last call from columbus, ohio. quick comment from you, donna? caller: yeah. there s i really haven t been i m not knowledgeable on that. thanks for being with us. today on c-span3, programs about immigration policy. next, los angeles mayor eric garcetti talks about how mayors can address national issues such as immigration and a minimum wage increase with local initiatives. after that, fill an throw pistol mike bazos talks about his experiences immigrating from cuba as a boy and finding american freedom. then a look at a report
the question of who has authorization, who doesn t have authorization. the symbolic apparatus that animates the ethos, the iedos of the current anxiety over immigration is fundamentally channeling, echoes what has been a story in our country for over 150 years. today it s not the irish, it s not the italians, it s not the eastern european jews. today it s the unauthorized. okay. a few more questions. yes, the middle of the middle table. okay, hi. my name is gaby. i m a third-year philosophy student here. and i m on the nyu dream team. excuse me, gaby, can you hold the microphone a little closer? yes. thank you. i know nyu just this past fall decided that they were going to begin to offer institutional aid to undocumented students. but all that is for undocumented students is opening up on the same footing being able to apply to nyu as a u.s. rather than as an international student. but even so, it doesn t mean that they re going to receive full financial aid, just
good morning. good morning. my name is megan van hutton and i am the director of media and external communications here at the chamber. welcome to our annual labor day press briefing. first, i have up here randy johnson, our senior vice president for labor and employee benefits and jd foster, our senior vice president for economic policy and chief economist. they will each speak for about 15 minutes, and then we will open it up for q&a. and you can ask your questions then. so, without further a do, i will pass it over to jd foster. mr. foster: thank you for coming. it s a pleasure to have you with this. randy johnson.ue fromor those suffering hurricane harvey, we wish them on behalf of the chamber all the safety and the swiftest possible recovery from what they are dealing with. the economy is in its ninth year of expansion, which is fairly hisble, as that makes it third longest in the modern era. by next spring, we will have tied for second, and curiously, despite the leng
mr. foster: thank you for coming. it s a pleasure to have you with this. also my colleague randy johnson. and for those suffering from hurricane harvey, we wish them on behalf of the chamber all the safety and the swiftest possible recovery from what they are dealing with. the economy is in its ninth year of expansion, which is fairly notable, as that makes it his third longest in the modern era. by next spring, we will have tied for second, and curiously, despite the length of the recovery and expansion, we seem to be heading into acceleration. normally as the expansion goes along, the m the economy slows a bit. instead, we may have an acceleration, and the reason for that is somewhat in this chart. if you look down the far left hand side, there is that little dip that corresponds to the. corresponds to the period before the election. we have the 6% increase. they call that the trump bump. whether president trump really gets the credit for that is up to future historians
i m dave on schedule. i m dave cook from the monitor, our guests today are thomas donohue and bruce josten, the chamber s the world s largest not-for-profit business administration. both men have been our guests before, and we re glad they came back. according to the new york times, mr. donahue once wrote his ambition was to, quote, bring the biggest [inaudible] in this town, unquote. before leading the chamber, he served for 13 years as president and chief executive officer of the american trucking association. prior to his tour at the ata, he was group vice president of the u.s. chamber of commerce for eight years. in an earlier chapter, he was deputy assistant postmaster general and vice president of connecticut s fairfield university. bruce josten is the political affairs executive. he started or had an early adventure in the chamber s new york office in 1974. he came to the organization well equipped for a rapid rise with a degree from harvard, and he oversees six