this conversation be moderated by amy goldstein is who is a visiting fellow newly arrived in the economic studies program. amy joins after spending 36 yearss as a staffer at the "washington post" covering social policy. she showed the pulitzer prize for herhe coverage of 911. she's also the author of janesville in american story very much ties into many of the themes in the report. i am delighted we are able to welcome all these guests today i will turn over too greg to talk about the report, thank you. >> thank you, thanks to everyone for coming. i am greg duncan i chaired the committee wanted to provide a bit of an introduction over the committee came from and set up the recommendations for next speakers will talk about. in 2021 congress asked the national academies to put together a consensus of panel to come up with ideas for programs and policies for which evidence indicated they stood a good chance of reducing intergenerational poverty. some of you may know the report came out in 2019 a road back to reducing child poverty was all about short term poverty what could we do today this