Was about 45 minutes. Thank you, kelly, and want to thank the Veterans Affairs Medical Center here in cincinnati and the allwomens American Legion post 644 for making it possible for me to be here today. And i want to make a special thank you to booktv for helping us spread the word about the longburied treasure of americas military women. This program has given us an opportunity to tell you about a National Treasure which has been all but completely absent with leave from americas historical memory. Even when United States history was required as a summit in high school and subject in the high school and colleges and many universities, textbooks and courses had very little to say about women, how they had contributed to the winning of world war i, world war ii, the wars in korea and vietnam. As a writing team of a nurse and a psychologist, coauthor dr. Evelyn monahan, we have a combined 50 years of experience with the department of Veterans Affairs. Now, you may be as surprised as we
Trends. This is cohosted by the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy, just getting underway. Offer solutions t economic ad social policy research. We havent assiduously pursuing this mission since 1968 when president johnson created urban to help if i weight programs and strategies aimed at improving the quality of life in central cities. And we bring expertise and research on the impacts of housing and policy in community developers, the Financial Capacity of families, insights about state and local governments, finance, and we work with policy makers in translating identifying policy problems and helping them develop policy solutions. So todays forum represents a convergence of our mission in expertise and leadership of our partner, the Lincoln Land Institute. On the going concern about municipal physical health and the connection to the housing crisis, and through the two Panel Conversations we will explore how the housing crisis in particular has affected the Fi
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I lead the policy Advisor Group here at the urban institute. If this is your first time at the urban institute, a very warm welcome to you. And if you are a regular participant in our live at urban events, welcome back. And also a warm welcome to those joining us today via the webcast and via cspan 2. We hope youre able to participate in the conversation. To follow it follow the hashtag live at urban. The twitter handles for all the participants are there so you can include us in your tweets. If you have a question and are watching this event on web cost or on cspan 2. You can email us at events. Urban. Org. We hope you do and participate in the conversation today. Let me say a little bit about urban. Urbans mission is to open minds, shape decisions and offer solutions through economic and social policy research. Weve been pursuing this mission since 1968 when president johnson created urban to help develop programs and strategies aimed at including the quality of life in central citie
Later a look at the International Response to the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. Wednesday the Senate Banking Committee Held a hearing on freddie mac, fannie mae and the state of the Housing Mortgage industry. Congressman mel watt took the updated members on new efforts to assist homeowners. This is 90 minutes. I call this hearing, your honor, welcome back to the committee. Since this is likely my last hearing regarding gses i would like to encourage my colleagues to for the past three years, we and our staff have spent count less hours wrestling with the possible solutions and pittal falls. Some options are not practical, while others are too it logical, yet we still need to find a solution. The enterprises remain trapped today. Fhfa continues to perform the dual role of both regulating and rating the business of the largest entities in the Mortgage Market. This is not sustainable. And there is no consensus in Congress Regarding how to move forward. All the while, the credit box remai