And they also declared that they are not from those which get that the criminal code the criminal code they are basically putting detainees in limbo where they make up the rules as they go along. Live on on book tv in depth. From noon to 3 p. M. Eastern. Its great to see all of you think you for coming. As most of you know this is the fourth year doing conversations about the freedom studies. We started this four years ago to bring new work into black history and the scholars and writers and conversation with us and to create a space to put that in the struggles of today and so tonight we will be talking about black power into political repression. Its very timely in the moment we are in and most of you whove been here before also know that every few months i like to talk about rosa parks and many of you know i wrote a biography of rosa parks and today would have been her 103rd birthday. In honor of that, me and some colleagues have built a new website called rosa parks biography to ki
Good morning. I am John Friedman and im based in washington dc where the Government Affairs a global apartment shared partnership. Ge is one of the leading technology companies. We have 50000 customers and 130 cussed countries. I dont see him, but i had the honor on tuesday of attending the white house water summit. Peter, marianne, you were there as well and probably others. One of the interesting things i heard was from john, president obamas scientific advisor and he said while members are almost never everything, there almost always a great starting point. I think in your opening remarks where you talk about the state of the nations water challenges you laid out numbers that are very sobering. I will just add to that that the American Society of Civil Engineers released a report giving the countrys water and wastewater of the structure a grade of d. That is worse than my grade of calculus to at the university of virginia. I still dont know why i took that class. I was a history maj
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Peoples ability to withstand financial shocks and one quarter of u. S. Respondents were financially fragile in the sense they could not come up with 2,000 in 30 days. Including respondents who reported probably being unable to come up with 2,000, half would be viewed as financially fragile. Low saving was the reported. In addition, Many Americans report that adequate saving for retirement is a challenge. In a 2014 gallup poll, only half respondents reported being confident they will have enough money to live comfortable in retirement. Research validates this concern and households in the lower distribution are most likely to be squeezed. So, for example, lower income households are much more likely to experience a material drop in their consumption at retirement than their higher income counterparts. Okay. So this brings us to the crucial questions of why people dont save enough and how federal policy can encourage them to save more. So to start, its not uncommon to hear people say the
Emotional truth, but because when you write it up there is the possibility of people responding. Unidentified friends who might read the work, even if across centuries, and join the conversation. For me, writing this book, i cannot think of i cannot think of a more important conversation to be having words too strange to be processed alone. And so, i want to say everyone who picked up the book, bad it, it decided to join the conversation. I want to thank the judges of the National Book foundation. I want to thank Peter Castano who First Published my work and has been it fettering writers come anything englander, who kicked my aspirin it definitely deserved kicking. To John Friedman have published my first story. Tom has been a mentor to me since before i joined the core. To the marines i served with in the committee of veteran writers, and especially those from the nyu veteran Writers Program central to this book and all the nonveteran writers equally essential to the book, pointing ou