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>> welcome to the american enterprise institute. i'm delighted to welcome you to this discussion entitled "a labor market for the digital age." i'm honored to welcome the president of the center for american progress, who is co-sponsoring this event along with aei. and we're specially honored to honored to welcome governor mitch tan daniels, governor hickenlooper. zoe baird and walter eisman of the aspen institute. i know we have a tremendous conversation in store for us today on one of the great issues we're all wrestling with. i want to start by giving you a few remarks on why this subject, finding new solutions to the problems of unemployment and getting people ready for the skills that they need in the next century is so important to us here at aei. aei is a think tank dedicated to really two things. human dignity and human potential.