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Unsuccessful. Were spending a lot of money. 13,000 per person. A lot of that is on health care. 45 of it. That is where congress decided to spend the money. The nation has made a great commitment to helping the poor. It increases every year. Third issue, the causes. The first is work rates. The longterm decline of work among males. The work rate among young black males, before the rescission, we before the recession, we have a real problem with male employment. For reasons that are not clear. Females, the opposite. They work more. Married women had joined the labor force. Never married mothers. The poorest group of mothers have had a spectacular increase in employment and even today, the likelihood that they have a job is greater, about 20 and it was before welfare reform. That group is working a lot. Wages. These are astounding. The wages at the 10th percentile and blow our where they were 30 and below are where they were 30 years ago. It is hard to make progress against poverty as we ....
Defenses. The first session for the evening is from pete and joyce giving Public Sector perspective on this topic. Pete was former cto for department of energy, currently a member of icit gala board and ceo of doths and bridges. Joyce Hunter Deputy cio policy and planning for u. S. Department of agriculture. So please help me welcome our first speakers. Great, thanks, parham. I appreciate the chance to be here. Two villanova grads, if youre wondering what the v stand for, pretty excited, it was a good year for us. Again, im only about nine, nine and a half, ten months removed from the federal government. Whats most exciting after 25 years and spending the last 7 1 2 or so at the department of energy was the opportunity to sort of take what i was doing in my role there. That was working inarguably the members us of the critical sectors, the 16 we know exist today but also on thi ....
Of an organization that is how many have grown out of that though. Every time you kill one, you get 10 or 20 more to join the cause. So are we winning . And it has helped the iraqi forces, the partners and kurds Iraqi Security forces retake key strategic areas. In five months, i think there is limbed and preliminary but significant evidence that this combination of limited u. S. Force and partners is working. I appreciate your time. Im out of time. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I thank the member from florida. Well we appreciate the time of all of our witnesses here today. This was a start of a very important conversation so i think as we deal with this, deal with this growing threat from isis and as we deal with the president s request we thank you again. Were going to be submitting some additional questions to our panel. Appreciate your response and we stand adjourned. A reminder that if you missed any of todays hearing you can watch ....
16. Im happy to. Nkats, now just three years old, was the first new center at nih again, quite a long time and was focused in trying to identify the bottle necks from going from basic science discoveries to benefits. In collaboration with our partners in the private sector. I think initially there were some concerns that nih is becoming a drug company, that really was never the plan and is not happening now. Instead, we are identifying areas of Technology Development that no Single Company could undertake, but working with them, we can give you just one example. The effort to try to figure out when youre developing a new drug, whether its going to be safe in humans or not. Has been a real difficult one. We use animal studies, small animals, large animals. Its not that accurate. Its slow, its expensive. We probably lose drugs along the way because some mouse got a slig ....