preterm birthrates in african-american communities are nearly 48% higher and an american-indian, alaska-native populations for women, it's about 15% higher than whites. so we really have to do -- we've done a great job so far, but we really have to start implementing more interventions across the country and across california so every baby has a fair chance of surviving. >> erica, i'm looking at some numbers that say that you want to get to 8.1% by 2020 of the preterm birthrate, and 5.5% by 2030. that's a very ambitious goal. >> yes, it is, but knowing these road-map interventions and some of the community work, we can get down to 8.1% by 2020, definitely. >> and can you talk a little bit about the road map, please. >> so these are eight emerging interventions that if you bundle them together or even separately, we're looking at reducing preterm birthrates across all jurisdictions, across all population groups. one of them starts with reducing a nonmedically indicated delivery. so women who aren't induced or given cesarean sections without a medical reason before 39 weeks. also, the increasing

history, the alaska native claim settlement act had recently passed and the governments of villages in rural alaska were being formed and reformed to take advantage of these opportunities. after dan went back to school to receive a master's degree in business administration from gonzaga, he made his way back to alaska again to serve as the chief financial officer and chief administrative officer for alaska's north slope burrow where he launched an ambitious and ultimately successful capital plan to provide basic necessities to so many americans -- that so many americans take for granted like running water and sewer. these kind of services to the villages throughout the minority -- the north slope burrow on the top of the world. according to bill tracy sr. from point lay, one of the villages there, who was a coworker at the time, dan's excellent work ethic and skills earned him the respect of the north slope leaders. his accomplishments were remarkable said mr. tracy. with this beautiful and spirited wife elaine by his side, always by his side, dan then moved his family to anchorage to

the poverty rate is slightly lower than that of native americans and alaska natives. but more important point is more than 75% of blacks are not poor so the kinds of generalizations and images with warm are unfortunately quite inaccurate, though it is the case that many, too many blacks are born into poverty and will remain in poverty. the most important conclusion that i think analysts of poverty have come through in trying to determine what the trend is is that today, the class gap is even greater than the racial gap. that is to say ms is a most unfortunate deplorable condition. the best predictor of poverty is being born to unmarried mothers and absent fathers. that's the single best predict her. it's not race. it's not where you live. it's not even unemployment. if the action of birth. there has been some good news in the poverty picture. the 2015 rates declined sharply from all groups. teenage pregnancies down by 50% since 1991. high school completion is up to black-white job in high school completion closing, not enough, but now about 85%. divorce rates have sta

recognize that the central council has also endorsed the gorsuch nomination, which is important for alaska natives. another example, the federal government controls vast amounts of land in the west and, of course, that includes our home state of alaska. public lands cases tend to originate in the west, not in the east, and so it's tremendously -- tremendously important that somebody on the supreme court have a familiarity with these issues and judge gorsuch clearly does. along with the pervasive federal presence in the west comes a huge federal regulatory influence. mr. president, i think you and i know that alaskans talk about the extent of federal overreach in our state like other people talk about the weather. alaskans will be interested to know, perhaps excited to know that one of judge gorsuch's top intellectual interests is regulatory overreach. he has publicly questioned the proposition that federal courts must defer to agency interpretation of the law when regulations are challenged. and that's a very good thing because when a homeowner has to go to court to litigate the question of whethe