about her book, the one behind a new deal, the life and legacy behind frances perkins. she was the first female cabinet secretary who served as fdr s labor secretary from 1933 to 1945. in that role, she helped to create a new deal legislation, and cue lubing social security, unemployment insurance and minimum wage. the other spoke about the 19-year-old book festival which the library of congress hosted on the national mall. this person was meaningful to me because was the basis on my entire book. this was the life of frances perkins around this building. and i ll explain to you how that happened and much of the research was denied library of congress, which is sponsoring today s events. it s a wonderful institution and the beautiful buildings, they re such important research materials there and it s all available free. these public access libraries are really one of the things that make our nation great. and i m very grateful to the library of congress for being here and
Everybody im steve it is my privilege to preside over this speakers pride ceremony our program is a little bit of it introduction a little bit of things in a discussion with her three winners that is great to see a good group here and thank you all for sharing this part of the evening with us. Let me first tell you about this prize since not all of you maybe is acquainted with it as we are. This is a memory of tony lucas was fired my generation of journalists by the time we were in college and started to think about what we wanted to know and what we wanted to write. And social issues in Common Ground was one of the big books on that shelf. When tony passed a lot of experience to come together to create this prize. So that is where this prize began. It has expanded gradually to include the history prize which is named for the late mark hinton who is a Senior Executive in the netherlands for the time of his death in 1997 and a deep reader and supporter of serious history. His wife maria
With this years lukas fridays ceremony our program is a little bit of the introduction and i hope an interesting discussion with our three winners and then with more celebration to come so thanks for all of you to share this part of the evening with us first i will tell you about this prize is you may not be as acquainted with it as we are but this is a prize in memory of tony lucas who inspired my generation the first time we started to taken college what we wanted to write and our generation grew up with a narrative nonfiction searching about social issues and Common Ground so when he passed a lot of people were inspired by his life to create this prius this is where the enterprise began it has expanded gradually for the Senior Executive in the netherlands at the time of his death in the 1997 as a reporter of serious history his children established the prize as part of a the lucas fridays project and his family has generally underwritten the prize since the inception in 1998 his wif
This is real money you are the most importantly part of the show oso important part of the show. We really do read your responses. Hey, americas economy picked up some heat after a bitterly cold winter. 192,000 net new jobs were created in march. And whiling figures for the prior two months always revise the prior two months ended up being up by 37,000. Now averages 183,000 per month. Not too shabby. 150,000 or plus is okay. 200,000 plus is better. Both president obama and mitt romney promised 250,000 plus when they were running for reelection. Whats more the recent job gains were seeing is largely from the private sector. Private companies, health care and even construction. Thats always a healthy sign of recovery. The Unemployment Rate which you know i dont like talking about remained unchanged, 6. 7 , that was because americans felt confident enough to seek work last month and that pushed up the Labor Force Participation rate by 2 10 of a percent. The Labor Force Participation is th
This is real money you are the most importantly part of the show oso important part of the show. We really do read your responses. Hey, americas economy picked up some heat after a bitterly cold winter. 192,000 net new jobs were created in march. And whiling figures for the prior two months always revise the prior two months ended up being up by 37,000. Now averages 183,000 per month. Not too shabby. 150,000 or plus is okay. 200,000 plus is better. Both president obama and mitt romney promised 250,000 plus when they were running for reelection. Whats more the recent job gains were seeing is largely from the private sector. Private companies, health care and even construction. Thats always a healthy sign of recovery. The Unemployment Rate which you know i dont like talking about remained unchanged, 6. 7 , that was because americans felt confident enough to seek work last month and that pushed up the Labor Force Participation rate by 2 10 of a percent. The Labor Force Participation is th