I am pleased to introduce tonight speaker Professor Emeritus at virginia, the university he chairs the History Department the editor of a five volume collection of letters as well as the author of dissent of the Supreme Court and the nations constitutional dialogue the lies in the state for affirmativeaction is part of the national dialogue. Many of us have struggled to explain the policy and how it works. In his new book the affirmativeaction puzzle traces to through the present day with Historical Context how affirmative action takes on racism. On the cover Orlando Patterson rates it is a comprehensive account for this nonwhite version of affirmativeaction and in the challenging historical task that no other issue divides americans more it is meticulously researched and honestly crafted work to draw their own conclusions about the value of this experiment. Please join me to welcome Melvin Urofsky to harvard bookstore. [applause] thank you. As a historian my mentor always told me to s
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We have followed that policy. And we never said that it was a target, which we would i understand that. I appreciate the kauvcaveats. Youre very good at caveats, i appreciate that. That brings me to my second point. A full six and a half years after the recovery, as you acknowledged there is slack in the labor market and there are significant weaknesses in the labor market, in the overall economy. In fact, a recent investors business daily article said the over all group has been 13. 3 . Thats less than half the average growth rate in the previous ten recoveries since waurld world war 2. If it had been average, gdp would by had 1. 9 trillion larger today. You recognized this in your report saying the measure of labor under utilization remains relative. That would explain why youve invoked that caveat and havent raised the rates even though you came below that 6. 5 . I understand the analysis. Lets talk about the cause of that underlying weakness. Its clearly not Monetary Policy from th
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See youre hyperventilating there. The fact that youve got 18 republican candidates out there for president and 15 of them or so are talking about these ideas, thats a real break through because we have problems getting republicans in favor of these ideas. Very much true. But what im asking stay open to democrats. Work with them. Bring them on board. Its all of our country, not just one partys country. Mrooz, please, please educate them work with them. Every now and then they may have something to teach us. Please, its one country, one people, one vision one future. Please be that way. Thank you very much. Thank you, steve, very much. Thanks again to steven r. And thanks to everybody for coming. Before we close, were going to have another tax event later this fall, probably in october, so stay tuned to that announcement. And i think there might be some sandwiches and drinks and cookies out there. So help yourself and thanks very much. Its almost as if they were matter and antimatter. Fr