Good afternoon, im steve mills, reporter the talk tribune tied we talk about prison, the astounding growth of the prison population in america and the roll prisons play in society and how that might change in the future mitchell guests are Baz Dreisinger and Elizabeth Hinton. Baz is the author of incarceration nation a she visited prisons in Nine Countries to better understand our attitudes towards crime, punishment and incarceration. A professor at john j. College in new york, baz is also a journalist, film and radio producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime.
her nomination. and join us next saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern for america and the courts. $ she will be the first latino american and only the third woman on the supreme court. you can watch all of the senator s speeches on judge sonia sotomayor and the vote at cspan.org. join us next week for america and the courts, saturday evenings at 7:00 eastern on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008] from the chicago public library, this is about an hour and a half. and now i think we re ready to begin. good evening, everyone. my name is mary demsey. it s my great pleasure to welcome you to the chicago public library for this very special program, our histories and our stories. first let me start by thanking juliana richardson and the history makers and g.g g. choza of roosevelt high school for telling these wonderful stories to us. we re delighted to have them here for this very, very special evening. of course, we re disietded to ee dr. henry
it is important for us not to spend all our energy focused on what is wrong with them. we developed an american solution, a fundamentally different approach, starting with the economy. we said, if you want american jobs at american growth and american business, here is a tax policy that will get you there. i challenge you to go out. i suspect virtually any economist will tell you that the policy i just outlined a break 50% reduction of social security and medical medicare tax, 12.5% corporate rate, you would have an explosion of economic growth in the united states. . . so they only count oil and natural gas. well, now it turns out we have a new technology in natural gas, we can drill down about 8,000 feet, we can then drill out horizontally four miles in every direction. the result is we re now discovering gas in shale and we have enormous quantities of gas. from western new york through western pennsylvania, through eastern ohio through west virginia and kentucky, all the