this event was hosted by the heritage foundation. mr. miller: good morning and welcome to the heritage foundation. my name is terry miller. i am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform here at the heritage foundation. i would ask for you please, those in the audience, to make the last check of your cell phones to make sure they won t interrupt the proceedings today. we will get started right now. the event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called big government policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. the united states is a very compassionate country, and we have a lot of government activities that affect poor members of our population in one way or the other. welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another, that add up to well over a trillion dollars these days. that can be things like health ofe, direct income support one kind or another. we are not here to talk about those
mr. miller: good morning and welcome to the heritage foundation. my name is terry miller. i am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform here at the heritage foundation. i would ask for you please, those in the audience, to make the last check of your cell phones to make sure they won t interrupt the proceedings today. we will get started right now. the event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called big government policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. the united states is a very compassionate country, and we have a lot of government activities that affect poor members of our population in one way or the other. welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another, that add up to well over a trillion dollars these days. that can be things like health ofe, direct income support one kind or another. we are not here to talk about those policies today. we want to talk about another set
welcome to the heritage foundation. i m the director for the center for free markets and regulatory reform. the heritage foundation. i would ask for those of you in the audience to please make that last little check now of your cell phones, to make sure that they won t interrupt proceedings today. and we will get started right now. the event today is really designed to celebrate the special report called a government policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. the united states is a very compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or the other. we have welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another that adds up to well over a trillion dollars tuesdays. that can be in things like health care, direct income supporters of one kind or another. we are not here to talk about those policies today. we want to talk about another set of government policies. those that are put in pl
[inaudible conversations] welcome back. this is a panel on how government policy drives up the prices for the poor and this panel is how government policies limit opportunities for. in a lot of ways poor are getting a double hit. they have to pay higher prices which affect them disproportionately than higher earners and so they would just like if they had more opportunity to make money to pay those prices it would be better however, the government policies will talk about in this panel limit the opportunities for them to get a job or for anyone to get a job but the most in need people are the ones who need it the most. we are running behind time several cut straight to the introductions. lisa is the director of strategic research at the institute of justice she helps manage the institute strategic research initiative which great policy and social research on central to the mission. poor working as a director of strategic research she served as the institute director of vaca
the topic of the first panel was our government policy drives of the prices for the poor, and this panel is how government policies limit opportunities for the poor. so in a lot of ways the poor are getting a double hit. they have to pay higher prices which affects them disproportionately more than higher earners, and so they would like them if they had more opportunity, to make money to pay those prices, it would be better. however, the government policies were going to talk about in this panel limit the opportunities for them to get a job offer everybody to get a job, but the most in need of people are the ones who need it the most. we are running a little behind times i will cut straight to the introduction. lisa knepper is the director of strategic research at the institute for justice. she helps manage the institutes strategic research initiative which grades policy and social science research on issue central to i jay s mission. school choice, robert bobby rush, economi