she's the director of the center for social research in india and an active campaigner for women's rights to the public protests by the nuns over the abuse of the catholic church was quite unprecedented what impact has this had there. well i think it's a deep impact because not only that there is an environment in the country at the moment where women are questioning religious institutions hindu women are questioning their right to enter the temple muslim women's has thing to do away with all kinds of obnoxious cultural and religious practices with people like triple the lock same be it first time ever war someone from inside the church and none comes out and you know the kind of really in their own straw out of the bishops on them by you know trying to prevent them first then second given they came out on the protest to tell them that they will be released by listing penalise will have done because of the largest support that they got from this was id from him is organizations from all of us they managed to stand the ground and they managed to fight back and i think that is this is if it

for the center of prosperity research. preeminentof the experts on poverty and social safety programs. director of the economic self-sufficiency policy research to. expert on the labor market and labor market economy. the currentt is chairman of the council of economic advisors. jared bernstein is the senior center onthe budget and also priorities. he served as advisor to vice president biden the obama administration. i will stop the panel conversation with the 10 to 15 minutes remaining. you will notice there are index cards in your seat. someone will come around or the end of the session clerk to those. let's start with josh. josh wrote a proposal that is in your volume is focused on zoning reform. the point of this reform is to make housing more audible in some of the superstar areas and as part of the background motivation in your raboso, you mention what i find is a startling statistic very you say u.s. gdp is nearly $2 trillion below its potential as a result of land-use regulations and zoning restrictions. there getting into specifics of your proposal, why is zoning and house pr

director of the center for poverty research and executive director of the kentucky federal statistical data center. jim is one of the nation's preeminent experts on u.s. poverty and social safe unit programs. david newmark, the chancellor professor of economics at the university of california irvine , director of the economic self- sufficiency policy research institute. david is renowned expert on labor market policy. we are really fortunate to have two guest here today to comment on the proposals that authors tell us about. kevin is the current chairman of the council of economic advisors, coming from his position as a resident scholar and jared bernstein, the senior for budget and policy priorities serving as chief economist and economic advisor to vice president biden and the obama administration. we have a lot to cover. we will be very efficient about this. i will stop the panel evaluation with 10 to 15 minutes remaining in the session so we have time for q&a from the audience. you will notice that there are index cards in your seats, so someone will come around near the end of the session and collect those and bring them up to us. let's start with josh. so, josh ha