Doctor davis drew on his experience this morning when he spoke to 450 High Schoolers ever so effectively. Hes taken it upon himself to attend virtually all of the eight lectures weve had thus far in this series. And hes been so very conscientious in communicating with us about what he wanted to say to you tonight and to our students earlier today. Im not sure i can do justice to his passion for the civil war in the Atlanta Campaign. His pieces have appeared in a number of scholarly and popular publications, including the civil war times illustrated and the georgia historical quarterly. He was the book review editor for blue and gray magazine for 11 years. His 2001 book, atlanta will fall, is highly respected. And his most recent book, what the excuse me what the yankees did to us, shermans bombardment and wrecking of atlanta, has been described as one expert as the most wellresearched and detailed account ever written about the fall of atlanta. In 2013, the Georgia Writers Association
About the Atlanta Campaign than he does. Hes been a proud civil war the fourth he was in grade. He earned his undergraduate emory, hisistory at masters degree at the andersity of North Carolina emory. At davis drew on his experience this morning when he spoke to 450 High Schoolers ever effectively. Hes taken it upon himself to attend virtually all of the eight lectures weve had thus far in this series. And hes been so very conscientious in communicating what he wanted to say to you tonight and to our students earlier today. Im not sure i can do justice to for the civil war in campaign. A his pieces have appeared in a popularf scholarly and publications, including the civil war times illustrated and the georgia historical quarterly. He was the book review editor magazine forgray 11 years. His 2001 book, atlanta will highly respected. And his most recent book, what the excuse me what the yankees did to us, shermans bombardment and wrecking of atlanta, has been described as one expert as
Introduce dr. Davis. Knows moree anyone about the Atlanta Campaign than buff,s, a proud civil war as he told our students today. E earned his undergraduate and his phd at emory, where he focused on civil war. He taught High School History for several years and drew on that this morning. And has been conscientious about communicating to us what he wanted to say. His pieces have appeared in a number of scholarly publications. He was the book review editor for 11 years and his 2001 book, atlanta will fall, highly and his most recent book, what the excuse me what the yankees did to us, shermans bombardment and wrecking of atlanta, has been described as one expert as the most wellresearched and detailed account ever written about the fall of atlanta. In 2013, the Georgia Writers Association recognized dr. Davis with its author of the year award in the category of history. At round tables across the country, he is a highly soughtafter speaker. Were honored to have this lover of the civil war
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Inequality. If you look at what actually happened to people, a lot of what matters, they are aftertax income and weve had substantial tax cuts in middleclass families, make tax cuts permanent that are worth thousands of dollars a year, had additional tax cuts for the areas like the itc and Child Tax Credit and on top of that you have the Affordable Care act. When you take all that into account, the policies of this administration have substantially reduced income inequality relative to what you otherwise would have had. In terms of the underlying trend in the economy i think that challenge is to with this and their dynamics, technology, education, globalization institutional changes, declining value of the minimum wage, all of those factors i think our continuing you know to create an underlying challenge to inequality and thats what were proposing all the steps we are for minimum wage to education to shaping globalization in terms are good for American Workers and the American Economy