Latest bucket of targeted Student Debt Relief his administration has approved. Since the beginning of the administration the education document has been working on making changes to various existing programs that provide debt relief and student debt cancellation to borrowers. Those changes have been happening sort of on a parallel track to the broader question of whether the administration can cancel large amounts across the board of student debt for borrowers. What the administration did yesterday is focus on targeted individual groups of borrowers. For example, the administration announced that some number of borrowers will receive debt relief under the Public Service len Forgiveness Program which offers Public Service workers those working for the government or nonprofit the opportunity to have their debt cancel after 10 years of making payments. That was marred in administrative problems and bureaucrat obstacles and they made it easier to get relief and yesterday a handful several
Assistant attorney general for antitrust, discussed antitrust enforcement during a conversation hosted by the Brookings Institution in washington dc, topics include revising the guidelines for mergers, labor market impacts, the importance of acting competition and innovation in how the courts interpret antitrust regulation and how the courts interpret antitrust regulation. Good morning everybody. Welcome to brookings. Welcome to those in person and those online and those on cspan. Before i introduce our distinguished guests, i thought i would give you a sense of how we propose to run the program today. Were going to do 60 minutes of discussion among the three of us. Then we will open up for 30 minutes of questions, from before, as well as question submitted online. We ask, if youre going to ask a question, identify yourself, and any appropriate affiliation. Lets get on with the program. The Brookings Institution and the governance studies program, of which i am part of. Im in the brook
Book, inside job, how government insiders subvert the Public Interest. His book looks at the sources of national decline. Typically when people think about national decline, they often look outside government, add special Interest Groups that try to coop governments for their own benefit. However, mark takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline. Com from inside government, from government insiders. It may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the harms that come fro outside government. We are looking forward to hearing from him today. The way we will frame todays book form, first we will hear remarks from him and then we will have comments from Jonathan Rauch at the Brookings Institution and myself. First i would like to introduce doctor zupan. He began his tenure as the 14th resident of Alfred University on july 2016. He was at the Business School of rochester from january 1, 2004. He served as dean and professor of economics at the univ
The first word processer, the first smartphone, the first car, the first plane, it has this connotation of a breakthrough investigation thats in essence a quantum leap. And my book is about how we as a society need to be innovating more and how the really significant innovations that move the dial are these breakthrough zero to one companies. Host is Silicon Valley a zero to one, does that have a zero to one mindset . Guest theres, theres definitely Silicon Valley at this point is the center of innovation in the u. S. , and i would argue the center of innovation globally. Its, there are certainly a number of companies that have involved significant break throughs, i would say google, amazon, facebook are significant ones in recent years, apple with the iphone. Theres always a bias to make things very incremental. Successful companies in cig con valley are all Silicon Valley are all zero to one companies. Most Companies End up being much less valuable. The tenth solar panel company, tha
Into volunteering, lets persuade them with a very specific benefit. Our volunteering as a pathway to employment that was released this report released last year has given us some very good news. If you are unemployed and youre looking for work and volunteer, you increase the likelihood of gaining a job about 27 . If you dont have a high school diploma, that likelihood raises up to 51 . If you live in a Rural Community and looking for woerk, you increase the likelihood about 55 . Because so many of our young people in the age group of 18 to 24 are looking for work, in fact, theyre in the bracket with the highest unemployment rates of any age group, we need to find ways to get them connected to jobs. And i think with this case study, now, that luring them in through the volunteering is a really good way to do so. Its going to help them but also the communities they served. More hands and hearts to help those that serve. So thats the case. How do we do it . The president s task force on e