as tom donohue said, you have to look for a job. but you got to get a break. urban alliance is that break. i encourage all of you who are the employers here to understand how important it is to get the job. the arab spring was really a youth revolution. some fruit vendor lit himself on fire and it caught on fire literally throughout the middle east. it was all about youth unemployment. which is it 30% in many arab countries. in places like libya and equgye it was hope. when you have no hope, you act out. so our view from the u.s., luckily we don't have those issues. but don't make any mistake about it. we have a responsibility when youth unemployment is at 14% and frankly substantially higher in the african-american and hispanic community. we have a responsibility to step up and do things. from our spperspective, we are trying to do something to move it forward. >> kathleen, you work around the world. our country here at home is becoming more and more diverse. more and more people who come from backgrounds from family from those countries that you serve around

tom donohue and his team. thank you so much for this opportunity to be a today, so thank you to them. [applause] and we heard about a lot of good work happening today, and we also i hope we are leaving your knowing more that there's a lot more to be done it and with that in my i want to do something really, really quickly. i want to acknowledge urban alliance of 2014-2015 major partners, because without you all as you just heard w we cannt do we do and that young people people in a very meaningful job opportunities. i want to go ahead and just if you would raise your hand or stand if you're okay with that as i called your name, please bear with me doing that. obviously, bank of america, capital one, corporate executive board. okay, we will clap, we will clap after everybody. trust corporation, deloitte. [applause] the meyer foundation. [applause] fannie mae. [applause] freddie mac. [applause] the harry and jeanette weinberg foundation. [applause] marriott. [applause] morgan stanley. [applause] new signature. [

because of the need, because of the labor force, because as tom donohue was saying, we see this -- you look at young people, we are talking about a $4.2 trillion problem if you look at the lifetime of those young people if they are not engaged in the work force and are changing demographics. people recognize it's important right now. but at the same time, often people have looked at young people and thought, we have to get them young. 3, 4, 5-year-olds, much more attractive cohort to work with. but now people recognize that it's incumbent upon us to work with young people. now we know more about what works. we know -- kathleen was talking about the national academies foundation. we know with urban alliance. we can look at europe. we can look at other programs and see that if you have blended programs that involve work and more businesses are engaging those young pee,

tom donohue, the head of the u.s.ber of commerce, and he will talk about business as a critical partner. and then we will have our esteemed panel moderated by sarah warb tel, and she will moderate our panel, the role of corporate engagement, which includes melody barnes and andrew prepler from bank of america, kathleen matthews and thomas nides. and then you'll have to see me again, and i will come up right at 11, we'll try to get you out of here on time, and do our closing and call to action. thank you all so very much. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. >> morning. >> my name's david williams, i'm pleased and honored to be here with you today. i have the pleasure and the privilege of being the ceo of deloitte financial advisory services. let me start by saying every time i hear that story that eshauna just told, i am very moved by it. i've heard a couple of versions of it, and i'm just going to throw out one version that i've heard that i like. i assume it's true. i'm not quite sure whether it's fact or fiction,