Force is growing plus how efficient our economy is becoming. If you add those two up, gdp growth. So what were seeing the last four years productivity growth averaging less than 1 . Historically thats low in the United States. Thats kind of really retarding u. S. Growth. How are we why arent we growing faster in this kind of Data Revolution where we hear all these great things about data . Theres this big conundrum there. Maybe what it is we have all these businesses gathering all this information and they really havent yet materialized the benefits from all this data. But from a macro perspective thats a huge, huge question. So how much all this data stuff were talking about, how much can this improve the u. S. Economy, okay . So im just going to throw out a couple real rough numbers here. Theres lots of studies out there who always talk about trillions of dollars and billions of dollars and so on and so forth. I always find those numbers really hard to understand. So im an economist.
And ochk that extends beyond the courtroom and the actions that we bring. Working with many members who are sponsoring this wonderful weekend and other members of congress as well, weve promoted legislative proposals to resore the Voting Rights act to its full and proerp. Weve profoesed legislation that would expand access to polling places for those living on indian villages and other tribal lands. We cannot have a situation in this country where the original americans are kept out of the participation in the bounties of this land. We cannot have that. [ applause ] we do this also through our monitoring program, we monitor federal elections and weve actively enforced the National Voter registration act to protect those who are registering to vote, as well as the rights of our uniformed members of the military. And overseas citizens who seek to vote as well. Keeping on to what makes them quintessentially american. We will also protect their rights as well. And of course, the right to v
This is the operation room, this is the largest section of our facility. In here we have one supervisor, two pattern and makers. And the rest of the people you see working diligently are tailors. We build and maintain all the garments for the historic area of products. So maintaining includes laundering and dry cleaning. This rack right here is often issued to people and then its going to they can come in and pick it up and take it out for their use. Generally when you come to work here, youll get an allotment. Thats based on what it is you do and how you do it. Its about 60 to 65 articles of clothing. We we clothe from the head to toe and skin out. The average allotment is worth about 4,000 so quite an investment for the foundation. Here we have the two outfits that were manufactured in this building. On the right here is a fife and drum uniform. We have a large the fife and drum corps which is the musical component of the Virginia State garrison. You have red with blue facings. These
Evention of the awkward or unfair laws have happened. That doesnt speak specifically to dominicans but thats a very specific experience that i had in arizona. Theres an interesting demographic and economic shift taking place because Mexico Mexico is doing better. It is. The mexican economy is doing better than other Central American i mean, you have the horrible problem with the drug wars but in some of the Central American countries that are sending a lot of migrants theyre really fleeing, you know, terrible levels of violence. So some the jobs that mexican immigrants used to do are now being done by the the lowest jobs are being done by Central Americans. And the interesting thing about the Child Migrants is that, you know, first they had to endure this, you know, very dangerous journey from Central America through mexico and then get over the border. But the interesting thing is that they get kind of dumped into this system of where they have the possibility of asking for asylum eve
Im Walter Isaacson, and im Walter Isaacson and im with the Aspen Institute here and its our pleasure at the institute to be the host and the facilitator of the franklin project. The project began when general Stan Mcchrystal was out talking about the importance of National Service two or three years ago in aspen, and everybody related to it, and one of the things we try to do here at the institute is turn thought into action, so we said, well, if this is important, lets try to create a program around it. General mcchrystal agreed to chair it. He also thought to himself, im never going to raise another idea in aspen again. You get enlisted if not drafted to do something, but i think he was able to convey to us that this works on so many levels. I mean, this is an important thing that every kid in america could have the rite of passage that previous generations had. Secondly, the notion that theres an expectation and an opportunity to be able to engage in National Service. I think both a