It is great to be here back in a place and i want to thank Wayne Jefferson here for having us everybody knew who hicks was he was deeply involved in social justice issues talk politics in the state for a long time and was very much engaged back in the days when doctor king was assassinated in the city was in flames. He was a good friend. I used to work on the east side and i got to know hicks very well because he did a lot of work over there as well and folks here at this center are doing gods work this Community Center gives people hope and a place to belong i saw hope as a senator when i watch my son become attorney general he would attend mass at sacred heart just up the street and then walk with his notebook in hand sit around for the day to see if he could find ways to help. And on the east side as a teenage lifeguard my career as a public defender started. And he is named after my buddy. We went way back. We just walked around wilmington and everybody has a story about hicks and
And the mcgregor family, all of them, including the longsuffering wife who has had to be the sister, like my sister, for all these years. I want to thank them all. Mayoryor burke and kennedy, thank you. Mr. President , as i said earlier, the iron workers have been with me my entire career. The first operation to ever endorse me in 1972. I wasnt even old enough to be elected senator, and you guys endorsed me, and i was able to turn 30 by the time i got sworn in. At the time i was elected, i wasnt old enough. And it is great to be home. Dunmore, mr. M mayor, and my mom was from scranton. Bob and everyone here at Mcgregor Industries for showing me around this morning. Although we knew of this establishment a long time, it has only been around 100 years, that this is the kind of small Manufacturing Business that ,emonstrates the resilience creativity and staying power of the American Industrial base. I am not telling you anything new, but we are living through a time unlike any other in is
Wont and to look at the key factors out there that predict a really serious financial and to some degree even social and environmental meltdown affecting each and every one of us all over the world hes not known as dr doom for nothing nuria were being he predicted the us Real Estate Market crash 3 years before everything came tumbling down in 2008 professor roubini teaches economics and International Business in New York University and he joins us from new york today nouriel thanks so much for joining us i was very very taken with main street manifesto it seemed to sort of break through the noise that there is a stacked deck against people on a lot of fronts well before the pandemic hit and the pandemic is in a sense sped up history and you continue to find people that are not going to be winners in this and the system slowly coming undone even if there are flirtations with what looks like you know growth etc tell us what the the real message behind main street manifesto was well the r
Hi. Thanks for turning out. Im laura miller and im the books and culture columnist for slate. Com. This is another social social distancing social from future tense in partnership with a partnership of slate, new america foundation, and Arizona State university. Today we talking about the future of books, and im joined by priscilla painton, who is Vice President and executive editor of simon and shuster and brandon tensley, a writer for cnn politics. Hi, i priscilla and brandon. You have to up mute. Nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to sort of moderate this, one of the things it brought up brought to mind are brought up in my memory is how in the early 2000s it seemed like everywhere you went there was like a Panel Discussion of the future of books and peopling making predictions but the future of books and how things had to change and which they needed to go, and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology. Most of the people said at that ti
I want to thank them all. And mayor burke and mayor kennedy, thank you. Mr. President , as i said earlier, the iron workers have been with me my entire career. The first operation to ever endorse me in 1972. I wasnt even old enough to be elected senator, and you guys endorsed me, and i was able to turn 30 by the time i got sworn in. At the time i was elected, i wasnt old enough. And it is great to be home. My dad is from dunmore, mr. Mayor, and my mom was from scranton. I want to thank bob and everyone here at Mcgregor Industries for showing me around this morning. Although we knew of this establishment a long time, it has only been around 100 years, that this is the kind of small Manufacturing Business that demonstrates the resilience, creativity and staying power of the American Industrial base. I am not telling you anything new, but we are living through a time unlike any other in American History our country is American History. Our country is facing three simultaneous crises, a pa