you have become a labor day tradition for us. welcome. first, background, is born and raised in southwestern pennsylvania where he followed his father and grandfather into the coal mines and worked his way through college and law school. he is a graduate from penn state. graduation, he joins a legal staff of the united mine workers and became president of the age of 33. since 1989, he spent working on the executive council and elected president of the federation in 2009. there on the record here, no live blogging or tweeting. in short, no filing of any kind while it s underway. once the session ends, you can file away. we will e-mail pictures to all the reporters here as soon as it ends. if you d like to ask questions, send me a signal and i will call on you as time permits. if you like to make a brief opening remark, the floor is yours. i can t believe it s been 11 years. that s incredible. you say happy early labor day to everybody here. i want to thank you for hosting us
get this stuff out of here. good morning. hank you all for coming. you just heard a long speech on our views on the economy. some of the big policies we will be working on, and a few other concerns. and i m not going to through that all again. we will get right to the question so let me tell you how we will do this. i have neil bradley here with me e is the chief policy officer. i will take the easy questions he will get the hard ones and we will get to as many of them as we can. so when you raise your hand a staff member will bring you a microphone and don t forget to tell us who you are and who you write for. talk for, and we will go from side to side. so let s get started. ho is first? ok? i mean who is picking them? oh i see, they are. that s a new deal. reporter: thank you very much, karen stacy from the financial times. you made criticism of this administration s policy on immigration, trade, and a certain extent the governing tyle of governing by crisis. do you think
and yesterday i said the astros were feeling positive you laughed at me. that was the first time since 1956 there was a no hitter at the world series. and christiane, one of the pitchers, his parents told him before they felt it was going to be a no hitter. i m not saying anything because i don t watch it, know nothing. who won the astros. we have a lot to get to here. more volatility expected this morning on wall street as the fed again makes things more expensive for americans trying to cool the economy. that i know about. also a secretly recorded meeting revealed in the oath keeper s trial. the leader of the group was trying to send a message to president trump in the aftermath of january 6th. and the washington commanders football team might be up for sale soon as the scandals against the team owner keep piling up. and actress sharon stone is speaking out after doctors say they found a large tumor after a misdiagnosis. we have the former secretary of
americans a break. but tonight, lawmakers, including many democrats with serious reservations. cecilia vega at the white house. tonight, the new images, the moments that passenger plane landed in miami. the landing gear failing. the plane catching on fire and tonight, images from inside the plane. and how old was that plane? sitting in a new mexico desert for years, then brought back into service. gio benitez covers aviation. the dramatic rescue in ukraine. a u.s. nuclear scientist escaping from russian-controlled mariupol, hiding in that city for nearly four months. james longman from ukraine tonight. the devastating earthquake in afghanistan. more than 1,000 people killed. the 5.9 leveling villages. maggie rulli reporting tonight. after the school shooting in uvalde, the schumermarket shooting in buffalo, news tonight on that bipartisan gun safety deal. will there be enough republicans in the senate to get this through? and tonight, republican leaders in the house a
could impact low and middle income households. hosted by the aspen institute. this is an hour and a half. good afternoon, everybody. welcome. my name is maureen conway. vice president at the aspen institute and executive director. i am delighted to welcome you to today s conversation in our working in america series. at the economic opportunities program we do a lot a variety of work to advance ideas that will help low and moderate income americans connect to economic opportunity and thrive in a changing economy. in the working in america series in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of opportunity that working americans face and consider ideas that could make things better for working people. we re extremely grateful to the ford foundation, to the prudential foundation, and the walmart foundation for their support of the working in america series. in today s conversation, as you have seen, we ll talk taxes and what tax reform could mean for l