and i'm wondering, and, ed, let me start with you here, and then i want to go to ayanna. i'm wondering if this panel thinks if that project, if built, will prove to be a triumph of the city? >> i, i'm relative agnostic on casinos. i'm enough of a libertarian not to think that gambling is a great sin, and i think it's not a terrible thing. on the other hand, it's unlikely to be any sort of a wellspring of further innovation or entrepreneurship that's going to come out of the area. i think the critical issue is whether or not it's going to, you know, make sure it covers any cost to the public sector of maintaining it. but i see it as being neither a game changer, nor a great evil, although -- so i just, i just don't, i just don't have a strong view on it one way or the other. >> i'd like to say something different. the greatest infrastructure project we have in our city right now is the work being done to restructure the school assignment plan. that is not physical infrastructure, it is human infrastructure, and it is really big. time is now in this city for people to get b

in terms of actual strategies, i certainly agree with ayanna pressley -- the ability of art to enrich and empower all of our lives but there's a lot to be said for mass, the work of josh goodman shows each extra year of math education by african-american results in bumping them in and years and increasing above the earnings by 8%. a big payoff to having quantitative skills. the other thing we know, we have had an effect of, many jurors will 7 successful. we have lottery results in boston that have shown i man enough of an economist to believe in competition and innovation and charter schools make that happen. that being said, we cannot forget on the public school system as a whole, we cannot let that go, the most critical ingredient we know in school is teachers. it is all about human capital at the teacher levelland to the public school teachers are heroes like the people who go in everyday and fight in difficult conditions to make life better for people who are starting with less. the work of my colleagues look at the impact of teachers on test scores and compares it with the impact

. >> barbara and that ayanna pressley gets the last word. >> interesting thing to remember. race to the top started with george bush and was advanced by obama. we are doing things at the national level to reduce the education disparity. obamacare started with mitt romney. it was romneycare before and giving access to health insurance is one of the most important things we consume in this nation to level the disparities in health and the disparities created by lack of access to health insurance. so we have bipartisan support for two of the most important things that are going to level us. the things we don't do is think about where do we help the most people the fastest, thinking about per capita returns on investment and our biggest weakness as a nation is community colleges, it skill gaps that we have left open. left wide open between the industries we are holding on to as we compete globally and how well we have done educating the people to take their place in the economy and i would hope whatever agenda comes forward we have an agenda that is deeply focused on adult learn