So this is panel two. Thank you so much for coming. Take it away. Thank you ron and thanks to all of you for being here. My name is a. Im in policy studies at the American Enterprise institute. I work in tax policy labor markets. One of the areas ive recently been focusing on is paid family leave. As im listening to the conversation i think you know generally talking about paid leave and child care and how we reform the existing system in the u. S. Is very important to the conversation that we have here. Ive also written about the system of child care, the Child Tax Credit, the you know, the system of tax credits that we have and how much of it is queued toward people at the top. How people with the benefits doesnt go to the people with the lower income. This is part of a larger discussion how do we reform child care how to we make it more accessible to people at the bottom. The first panel was more about why we need these policies. Why are we even talking about universal child allowan
David and i are going to try Something Different today. Dave is going to be going to be the emcee of our event today. We will see how this experiment and process unfolds with you here. David, do you want to take over now . Okay. I thought it was usual dnc starts first. We want to welcome api to the neighborhood is one of my colleagues says my colleagues says, we cannot send massachusetts avenue at least, any ice to the of brookings. I am really glad nick has done this book because i think that the acute issues of the Great Recession had to a large extent not completely passed and what we now observe that the number of chronic conditions which has mixed book shows has mixed book shows, has mixed bookshelves, baseline, the shocking fraction of prime age men who are not working in some thing that is a preexisting condition, something that preceded the Great Recession, maybe gotten worse and so it requires them in more than only we can talk a little bit about something to make the economy
[inaudible conversations] one [inaudible conversations] mr. Thune good morning. Welcome to todays hearing on oversight of the fcc. I should point out since this committee has jurisdiction over sports. Last night, the South Dakota State University jackrabbits plunged their ticket to the tournament by winning the Summer League tournament. I am getting gaveled down by someone. [laughter] last time we met, a lot exchanged since then with the new fcc chairman with several members of this committee. This is the first sec oversight hearing is that i hope to see changes how the commission operates. I urge them to treat each other fairly, to be willing to ask congress for guidance whenever possible. While still in the early days, they seem to heed the advice that actions under chairman pai to improve the of process of transparency. And those that seem to amass power the chairman office that they could instead empower the public and other commissioners. Chairman pai says purging the divide to gu
[inaudible conversations] one [inaudible conversations] remind good morning welcome to oversight of the fccs i should point out since this committee has jurisdiction over sports last night the South Dakota State University jackrabbits plunged their ticket to the tournament by winning the Summer League tournament i am getting gaveled down by someone. [laughter] last time we met a lot exchanged since then with the new fcc chairman with several members of this committee this is the first sec oversight hearing is that i hope to see changes how the commission operates i urge them to treat each other fairly to be willing to ask congress for guidance whenever possible. While still in the early days they seem to heed the advice that actions under chairman pai to improve the of process of transparency. And those that seem to amass power the chairman office that they could instead empower the public and other commissioners. Chairmanpai says purging the divide to guide under his cedar ship to rep
Life of organized crime boss al capone. And on book tv afterwards program at 10 00 p. M. Eastern they discuss the impact that immigration and on the economy. And we wrap up our saturday prime time line up lineup at 11 00 p. M. With former banker the fish serves banker. How i destroyed swiss bank secrecy. That all happens next on cspan to book tv. Ladies and gentlemen thank you for joining us here in our headquarters on this beautiful fall day. Thank you as well to our Television Audience in our online audience i have nick eberstadt. And author of this book men without work americas invisible crisis. My colic here director of bookings institutions. We are can and try something a little bit different today hes gonna be the emcee of our event today with you here. Do you want to take over the baton now. I thought that it was usual that the emcee talks first. We want to welcome aei today neighborhood. It is to the west of brookings. I am really glad that nick has done this book because i th