Devastating new poll numbers that show mr. Obamas Foreign Policy failures have now gone beyond the tolerance of most americans. Public approval of the president s handling of foreign approximately see has now sunk to an alltime low of 36 . Six in ten now disapprove of his Foreign Policy, numbers that worsened whenec broen down into individual issues. The washingtthe malaysian passe that was shot down over the ukraine. Just 23 approve of his handling of the conflict between the ukraine and russia. 18 approval, the administrations response to the israelihamas conflict, 17 approval. 14 approval on the president s actions in regard to the rise of the Islamic State of iraq and the le vant in iraq. Here is president obama in his own words just three months ago as he described his Foreign Policy strategy as little more than trying to avoid making mistakes or as his senior aides put it, not doing dumb stuff. That may not always be sexy. That may not always attract a lot of attention and it doe
Get into them and the whole problem will go away. I think that is fundamentally an evasion of a profound social challenge. Raise the issue of the minimum wage and unions and Bargaining Power of workers, but it strikes me were faced with a conund rum in a sense these changes make the imperative of giving workers more sort of Bargaining Power and a higher minimum wage make that more compelling and important but at the same time those same technologies make it easier for employers to replace workers who become too expensive with machines, so how do we thread that needle . Well, i think that is a real challenge and one of the ways i think a lot of us have talked about, not just the minimum wage, but the earned income tax credit which is a way of encouraging people to work and sharing some of the benefits from the economy to people who are are working and maybe not making very high wages. Through the tax code, not the employer, employee relationship. One of the differences is that while it
We have to try to take the Peace Process further. Youukraines president made clear this is the most important thing for his country but we are very aware it will take more effort. Therefore we are open to all possible reactions. If it goes well, we will happily go forward with this process but if there are difficulties we are not ruling out additional sanctions. Brendan meanwhile more fierce fighting between separatists in ukraine. Staying in europe, greek negotiators in the countrys euro area are meeting in brussels today. The Prime Minister of Alexis Tsipras met with others. Tom greeces goal remains a sixmonth bridge agreement that could lead to a new deal with euroarea authorities. A current aid program x wires this month. There are signs of life in the euro area economy this morning. New reports show momentum picked up at the end of last year as germany reasserted self as a driver of growth. It serves offset weakness in greece and italy. Interesting numbers today. France with proje
Laura i have the honor of moderating the second panel of this amazing conversation. I want to start by really congratulation congratulating the hamilton project for putting a wonderful event together. If you have not read the age of working machines which i think you put together in record time if you want a summary of the issues that we are chance to discuss here is a very distinguished that of speakers read this. It is really a great overview and it links to everything you need to know. The fact that they brought everybody here you need to know right here i recommend this. Reading entire post on the subject. Laura i thought that was the price of admission that you had to read this. In any event, this panel is going to focus on business innovation. Is going to focus on in two ways. One is what technologies are we really talking about and how much is the conversation really about software coding, a little bit of robots thrown in there occasionally . What technologies are really transfo
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