The citys finances, its hiring practices and accusations of socalled pay to play politics. A recent poll has found mayor emanuel lead aring 58 to 30 with 9 undecided. The debate was moderated by bill ponce of wttwtv which cohosted the event along with the city club of chicago. This is just under an hour. Smart people may disagree about what makes a great city but part of what makes chicago great is we dont have to agree. To run a city like ours, a lot of issues come up. The city club of chicago is a place to debate those issues ask hear from the men and women whoo shape the policies, lead the t industries and tell the storiesis, that define our city. For the free and open exchange of ideas the city club of chicago. Moderator good evening and is welcome to chicago tonight,ood im phil ponce on this tuesday, march 31st. The final forum between the two candidates running for mayor of chicago, that is the full hour next on chicago tonight. Moderator the stakes in chicagos Mayoral Election c
Institute for International Economic economics. Its an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to our previously schedule programming. It is my pleasure to continue from our Economics Panel according to our practical world. We have as a special treat today, Mark Bertolini the chairman and ceo of aetna who is going to talk about the role of Corporate America in reestablishing the american middle class. Thats about as targeted and blunt a title as you can have, which i find very typical of mark. Many of you have become familiar with him recently he got him mens coverage in the New York Times and elsewhere for his leadership. I think it is fair to say the word leadership and taking aetna forward and then amongst other companies in vool tearvoluntary raiseing the wages of its vast share of low wageworkers within its company, something that so far at least none of the other Major Health Insurers in the u. S. Have announced. We have gotten to know mark over the last few years. Hes been a me
Out to more people has to be doubled, has to be made more real. And that brings us to the issue of education where we know there is a huge deficit in the region. The regions Higher Education institutions remain not up to the challenge of the 21st century, and many leaders recognize this. So we will continue to push where we can with 100,000 strong in the americas program, which was now awarded 38 innovation grants to 100 Higher Education institutions in 12 countries. I am proud we are continuing to work on this and really moving ahead with a lot of private sector partnerships in a lot of countries, but we need to do even more at partnering. We know that wholesale connection, what we are doing is connecting institutions to institution. We are not funding individual scholarships. We know that connecting universities and colleges to universities and colleges will raise the number of students who go on these exchanges faster than funding individual scholarships. We have seen the numbers of
Under federal investigation in florida for his alleged Crimes Involving Sexual Exploitation of minors until u. S. Attorney alex acosta, now trumps secretary of labor, approved a deal allowing epstein to plead guilty to lesser state charges of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. That deal concealed the full extent of epsteins alleged crimes. President trump told new York Magazine in 2002 that epstein was, quote, a terrific guy who was, quote, a lot of fun to be with. He has even said he likes beautiful women as much as i do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it, jeffrey enjoys his social life. Thats the president of the United States talking. Today trump sought to distance himself from epstein. I had a falling out with him a long time ago. I dont think ive spoken to him for 15 years. I wasnt a fan. I feel very badly actually for secretary acosta, because ive known him as being somebody that works so hard and has done such a good job. I feel very bad