A webinar by new americas Better Life Lab well into the 21st century achieving equality in the economy remains business worldwide, womens employment, income and opportunities lag behind building and a one of a kind database that covers hundred and 93 countries. The book equality within our lifetimes systematically analyzes how far weve come and how we have to go to close these gaps. Its a powerful call to action. How gender equality is both feasible and urgently needed to address some of the greatest challenges of our generation. Moderating todays event with research Aleta Sprague and is Haley Swenson a researcher and writer who has been part of the Better Life Lab team for the last six years. She has a ph. D. And gender studies and her research focuses on the relationship between racial and gender equality at work and, at home. Her writing has been featured in the new york times. The washington and slate, as well as dozens of other outlets, along with schultz, she has pioneered the be
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to equality within our lifetime how laws and policies can close widen gender gaps in economies worldwide. A webinar by new americas Better Life Lab well into the 21st century achieving equality in the economy remains business worldwide, womens employment, income and opportunities lag behind building and a one of a kind database that covers hundred and 93 countries. The book equality within our lifetimes systematically analyzes how far weve come and how we have to go to close these gaps. Its a powerful call to action. How gender equality is both feasible and urgently needed to address some of the greatest challenges of our generation. Moderating todays event with research Aleta Sprague and is Haley Swenson a researcher and writer who has been part of the Better Life Lab team for the last six years. She has a ph. D. And gender studies and her research focuses on the relationship between racial and gender equality at work and, at home. Her writing has bee
[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
And then drive it forward in 2017. Thanks for listening. [applause] i know j stand before you and lunch but i am happy to take any questions for you. Just an opportunity to talk about a book. It is called fixing the future and how canadas government worked together to rescue the canada pension plan. It is an interesting story and the same issue as the Social Security except we ended up with a situation where we doubled the contribution rate and built up the reserve fund and stabilized the contribution rate. It is a fascinating story. You have to figure out the story. I think that is a great point. The way the public and the private sector have come together we have studied this to achieve the policy in canada. Okay. Thank you, everyone. Once again i want to thank ida and the Aspen Institute. [applause] sunday, Hillary Clinton speaks at the mayors conference in indianapolis. We will have live coverage starting at 4 p. M. Eastern. And later, cspans conversation with democratic president
Experience with i. T. Was that it was boondoggle after boondoggle and a tremendous waste of taxpayers money spent on incompetent private contractors who never seem to be able to get things right. And im wondering if you could comment and perhaps its better now, and what impact this has on the current sense of trust among Public Officials regarding their sure. So i would say the failures are just as bad or worse in terms of government contracting, i. T. , healthcare. Gov and the electronic records archive, expensive yearlong projects that largely failed, with healthcare. Gov until it was rescued, big, massive failures. Whats changing is there are a number of people that have identified tractable, fixable problems with the contracting and the i. T. Contracting system, and so if you look at the u. S. Digital service or at 18f, these are new governmentled groups of people that are trying to change the way the government buys technology and to change the way the government builds technology