what's your relationship with aei or with arthur brooks? >> well, i don't have any formal relationship with aei. arthur has been a friend and a mentor of mine for many years. one of the nice things about this book is concerned with issues poverty in network and how we help poor people, and what i wanted to do was write a book that would not just connect to academic audiences, but to a broader array of individuals and organizations that work in this area. many of those are nonprofit, many of those are faith-based organizations, and arthur is an expert on the nonprofit sector and understands how critical that sector is to the work we do. and, you know, he provided invaluable insight and structure as i moved forward with the book. >> you're a professor here at the university of chicago, what department do you teach? >> just celebrated its 100th year a year ago, it's a school of social work. we train thousands of students to be practitioners and counselors, go on to serve millions of americans over the course of all their careers. i teach cours

what is your relationship with aei or erred dr. brooks? >> guest: i have no formal relationship although he has been a friend and mentor of mine one nice thing about the book with the issues of poverty how we help poor people of one to write a book that would connect to a broader array of individuals and organizations that work in the area of many of those are nonprofit and to understand how critical this sector is to the work that we do to provide invaluable os -- the structures. >> host: you are professor at university of chicago. those that have celebrated the 100 year one year ago we hope to train those over the course of a career and i teach courses on the history of the welfare state and also this spring in teaching a course for nonprofit to connect students to emerging strategies for more effective the program. >> would drew you to the social service sector? >> >> my dad lost his job and did not have a college degree it was hard for him to find work and i had social welfare policy and the content connected with me and i felt i could

i will be performing all week at aei. let's talk about football and theodore roosevelt. i would like to start with a statistic. in 190518 people died playing football. it 1905, 18 people died playing football. so we hear a lot today about the problem, concussions and head injuries and the long-term health effects. this is a controversy in football today, but it's got nothing on the challenges football faced a little more than a century ago. so let's go back in time. in 1876, theodore roosevelt attended its first football game. he was an 18-year-old freshman at harvard university. he got on a train with a bunch of friends and they went to new haven connecticut where they watched the second ever football game played between harvard and yale. so in the history of college sports a lot of great rivalries. michigan has ohio state, alabama has auburn, the heritage foundation has the brookings institution. harvard has yale and let's remember the ivy league is an affleck conference. 1876 they split their second ever football game. the weather was lousy. it was cold, the winds wer

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the decisions that we took to cap or cut 30-some programs in april of 2009, as i said at aei, essentially took a lot of low- hanging fruit, and a lot of people would say, some more valuable stuff as well. but the total value of those programs, had they been built to completion, was about $330 billion. now, we said at the time, now some of those cuts, we're going to have to go back and do other kinds of programs. for example, one of the cuts was the presidential helicopter. we still got to do that. one of the cuts was a bomber. we have a new bomber program. so it's not a net cut of 330, but it would -- it would've been. we then did $178 billion worth of efficiencies, and $100 billion reinvested by the services, $78 billion for the topline. so -- and halfway through the fiscal year, fy11, our budget was cut $20 billion. so it's not like we're starting from scratch on this. this department has been dealing with these issues for at least the last two years. now, the question that you ask is actually the question to be answered by the comprehensive review. if you look at the different options

before joining the aei, he was a senior economist at the board of governors, federal reserve system and associate professor of economics and finance at the graduate school of business at columbia university. dr. hassett was it was a consultant to the treasury department during the george h. w. bush and clinton administration. he served as economic adviser to the george w. bush 2004 presidential campaign and senator john mccain's chief economic adviser during the the 2000 presidential primary. he also served as the senior economic adviser to the mccain 2008 presidential campaign. he's a columnist for the national review. dr. hassett earned his ph.d. in university pennsylvania. welcome. our fourth panelist today, chad stone is the chief economist at the center on budget and policy priorities where he specializes in the economic analysis of budget and policy issues. dr. stone was the acting executive stricter of the joint economic committee here in 2007 and before that staff director chief economist for the democratic staff of the committee from 2002 to 2006. he held a position of chief ec

before joining the aei commission was a senior columnist of the board of governors with federal reserve system and an associate professor of economics and finance at the grassroots school of business at columbia university. dr. hassert was a policy consultant during the george h. w. bush and clinton administration. he served as the economic adviser to the george w. bush 2004 presidential campaign and as the senator john mccain's chief economic advisor during the 2002 primary. heels after served as the economic adviser to the mccain 2008 presidential campaign and is a columnist for national review. dr. hassert earned his ph.d. in economics at the university pennsylvania and dr. hassert. welcome. our fourth panelist today chad stone is the chief economist at the center on budget and policy priorities where he specializes in the economic analysis of budget and policy issues. dr. stone was the acting its ticket to the editor of the joint economic committee here in 2007 and before that stock stricter chief economist for the democratic staff of the committee from 2002 to 2006. he held the pos