Use the hashtag artist places. Fire up your smart phones if you get a chance. I am mark muro, senior fellow at the metropolitan policy program and my privilege to kick off todays auspicious event. I say our event today is auspicious for several reasons. It is always auspicious to welcome and help launch a book into the world, given it is a red letter day for fred bacher whose excellent book the smartest places on earth is just out and if i do say so, rush to pick up a copy, we have some out beyond the back, on the way out please do that. Also two experienced economic observers focusing not on the standard inside the beltway with spin cycles, and at brookings, the most fundamental elements of national wellbeing, r d and stem worker advanced industries from aerospace, Regional Technology clusters, Regional Technology ecosystems, critical, that is part of their focus, and collaborations they accelerate. The fact that cities and regions themselves can become incubators of growth. They trav
Gains in washington because of that next generation doesnt the that you will see those gains retreat millenials live in a much stronger in the private section so maybe they will see more gains in that sector there much more upandcoming like Silicon Valley or even in Hollywood Taylors with saying what my recognition or Jennifer Lawrence i want equal pay theyre finding their voices that are very powerful but there are so very few millenials with bin in public life. I think they in general especially College Students that is why i think there is of fundamental shift for those that are interested which i think is encouraging but stay involved and volunteer on campaigns because if you get the bug early you will be hooked and you can make a difference. I thoroughly enjoyed to be here with all of you. Thanks for coming tonight it was great to have your insight. [applause] [inaudible conversations] good morning. What i am delighted to be with you here and also those of you out in twitter this
Has the kind of discipline, the kind of intellectual rigor to unpack the complexity of the industries and then figured out what the Public Policies needs to flow from. My question is this. I used left fairly often and what i find depressing is often the guy thats driving is very highly qualified but hasnt to me the operationalization of what youre talking about here is how to get people educated with the right tools so they dont become to janitors in West Virginia but they become contributors to this new economy. Have you thought about that i have come its called the most important job youll ever have and the most important job youll ever have is being a parent. I wouldnt pretend to be a parenting guru and my children here today would remind me. But what i do is take the voices and perspectives of the people in the book and i ask them all the same questions what will todays kids need to make it in tomorrows economy so theres a full treatment of that. Now that of course doesnt relate to
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Eastern, here on cspan2. Thursday a talk on security challenges in the middle east. Former president of the American University in cairo Lisa Anderson delivered remarks at the center for strategic and international studies. That is live at 10 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. In both iraq and afghanistan, i helped both countries with their constitutions being sort of facilitator of agreement on key issues among afghans. The influence is considerable and has the government anxious to meet with you. Sunday night on q a. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan, iraq and the United Nations discusses this journey. We saw the extremist and how we corrected it toward the end of the period i was there by the surge and reaching out to the sunnis and building up iraqi forces and establishing a government to bring about security and violence was down. But unfortunately we left and the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers. A discussion on the book, the smartest places on earth, looks at innovatio