[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barred from casting a ballot which denies the right to participate in our democracy after they have paid their debt to our society. The impact of these barriers goes beyond those previous convicted of a crime. Criminal records are a family sentence. In fact, they have found that nearly half americans children now have a parent with a criminal record. Study after study has shown that the barriers associated with the parents criminal record can severely limit the childs opportunities and lead to worse
Good morning, everybody. So we will shift gears now building on the remarks from representative pose and representative crowly. We want to do three things. First we vpt to a conversation about what the pba accomplished and what was left undone. That is the purpose of this conversation. We will get indepth into it with really great speakers into what happened in the ten years since the tpa was passed, what it means for retirement in america, and what more needs to be done and hopefully that will tee up the next of the day. Followed by keynote remarks at 11 30 from edmond murphy, ceo of power retirements. And then is short break and we will have a second panel all about the path forward and what is the agenda for the next administration. So, what i am going to do, just a note on logistics. The way we would like to do is people make brief remarks and i will follow up with one question per person. Woel we will go down the row and have time for dialogue between the panel and questions and a
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