Some of you exposed your own British Occupation, or perhaps liberation in the perspective of many. Its our third year in a row doing sort of what we call flagship living history event. We place about 70 costumed interpreters out on to the streets of old city philadelphia and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of the event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way to show that for many of the people that remained in the city that winter this was an occupation and maybe a liberation from many of their perspectives and they wrote about in the period being liberated from the tire ran cat you certain asians of a tyrannical congress, which is maybe something we can all aspire to some day. So we do this with living history programming in part because people come to museums to learn in all different ways to encounter the real things of history to have a Human Experience to connect with it and one way we bring it to life is with living history progra
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Next, a discussion on the Obama Administrations economic policies and their effect on certain sectors of the u. S. Economy. From this mornings washington journal, this is an hour and a half. One of our guests. Also joined by heidi, an economist at the Economic Policy institute, or epi, and joining us from George Mason University where she is a Senior Research fellow. Wanted to get your perspective on the economic president obama at a florida port vowed to speed shipping and transit projects, talking how the thinks he can boost the economy. What is the state of the economy now . How would you judge the economy to date . I think its too weak. Weve been out of the recession for four years. I think the best way to describe it is the labor market is stuck in the mud. The Unemployment Rate, which is a share of the population that is employed, has been almost flat, and very low. As unemployment has gone down, thats a because a lot of people have given up and Economic Growth is not as strong a