Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address as president in 1933 during the Great Depression. He acknowledged the nation's financial troubles but reassured the public that their greatest fear should be "fear itself." Roosevelt promised bold action and leadership to address the crisis by creating jobs and reforming financial systems. He pledged to work with Congress for an economic recovery plan focused on restoring employment and purchasing power through public works projects and redistributing populations to better use land resources.
A comprehensive power point of Ken Cloke's presentations on the work of Mediators Beyond Borders and the principles contained in his book Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice and Terrorism or How Mediators Can Help Save the Planet (images courtesy of the internet & not Ken's responsibility)
Anti Federalist Papers No 11 - Unrestricted PowerChuck Thompson
The Anti Federalist papers No. 11. Unrestricted power over commerce should not be given to the national government. Liberty Education Series. Gloucester, Virginia Links and News website. Visit us for incredible content.
A comprehensive power point of Ken Cloke's presentations on the work of Mediators Beyond Borders and the principles contained in his book Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice and Terrorism or How Mediators Can Help Save the Planet (images courtesy of the internet & not Ken's responsibility)
Anti Federalist Papers No 11 - Unrestricted PowerChuck Thompson
The Anti Federalist papers No. 11. Unrestricted power over commerce should not be given to the national government. Liberty Education Series. Gloucester, Virginia Links and News website. Visit us for incredible content.
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. RooseveltWEDNESDAY, JA.docxrtodd280
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937
When four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here. We dedicated ourselves to the fulfillment of a vision--to speed the time when there would be for all the people that security and peace essential to the pursuit of happiness. We of the Republic pledged ourselves to drive from the temple of our ancient faith those who had profaned it; to end by action, tireless and unafraid, the stagnation and despair of that day. We did those first things first.
Our covenant with ourselves did not stop there. Instinctively we recognized a deeper need--the need to find through government the instrument of our united purpose to solve for the individual the ever-rising problems of a complex civilization. Repeated attempts at their solution without the aid of government had left us baffled and bewildered. For, without that aid, we had been unable to create those moral controls over the services of science which are necessary to make science a useful servant instead of a ruthless master of mankind. To do this we knew that we must find practical controls over blind economic forces and blindly selfish men.
We of the Republic sensed the truth that democratic government has innate capacity to protect its people against disasters once considered inevitable, to solve problems once considered unsolvable. We would not admit that we could not find a way to master economic epidemics just as, after centuries of fatalistic suffering, we had found a way to master epidemics of disease. We refused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes of disaster.
In this we Americans were discovering no wholly new truth; we were writing a new chapter in our book of self-government.
This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Constitutional Convention which made us a nation. At that Convention our forefathers found the way out of the chaos which followed the Revolutionary War; they created a strong government with powers of united action sufficient then and now to solve problems utterly beyond individual or local solution. A century and a half ago they established the Federal Government in order to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to the American people.
Today we invoke those same powers of government to achieve the same objectives.
Four years of new experience have not belied our historic instinct. They hold out the clear hope that government within communities, government within the separate States, and government of the United States can do the things the times require, without yielding its democracy. Our tasks in the last four years did not force democracy to take a holiday.
Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good. The es.
Statement by The Honourable Allen M Chastanet Prime Minister of Saint Lucia and Minister of for Finance, Economic Growth, Job Creation, External Affairs and Public Service to the General Debate of the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Saving the American Dream: The Heritage Plan to Fix the Debt, Cut Spending, a...The Heritage Foundation
In this landmark report, The Heritage Foundation presents a comprehensive plan to grow the economy and balance the budget. Saving the American Dream boldly reforms Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, taxes, health insurance, and government spending. Dive deep into these policy ideas with seven full-color charts and six in-depth tables. Originally published May 2011.
The New Deal, 1932-19401First New Deal (the Hundr.docxoreo10
The New Deal, 1932-1940
1
First New Deal (the “Hundred Days”)
Changes in American Life and Thought
Democratic Party
Liberalism
Public Works
Freedom
Economic Security
Initial approach to economic crisis
New Deal as alternative to socialist, Nazi, and Laissez-faire solutions
Circle of advisors
Leading figures: Francis Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes
Louis Brandeis
“Brains trust”
First New Deal (the “Hundred Days”)
FDR inaugural: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Financial program
Initiatives
“Bank holiday”
FDIC
Removal of United States from gold standard
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Industry codes for output, prices, working conditions
Recognition of labor’s right to organize
Restoration of economic vitality, stability
Ebbing of public enthusiasm; growth of controversy
Corporate domination
I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impel. This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days…Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
FDR’s First Inaugural Address
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish…Restoration calls, however, not ...
As Steve Jobs once said ” Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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this is due in 7 hours....... must have done in 7 hours....
must write at least 5 paragraphs
Essay Question:
How did the New Deal change the role of government in the economy and society of the United States? Why did the change come about? In your answer, make clear the major achievements and limitations of the New Deal and the political factors that led to its success. It will be helpful to use the concepts “social welfare state” and “laissez faire,” and to contrast the New Deal with earlier government policies.
Write an original essay of about five paragraphs that
makes use of the sources provided
to answer the prompt. Structure your answer with a clear thesis statement in the first sentence, and supporting examples and reasoning in subsequent paragraphs. Choose specific examples from the sources provided below (1-7). ONLY use the sources below. You can not use other sources
1. Franklin Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address" (1933)
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.
Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly.
Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments, so that there will be an end to speculation with other people's money; and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
Source: Franklin Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address." March 4, 1933.
2. Franklin Roosevelt, "Statement on Signing the Social Security Act" (1935)
Today a hope of many years' standing is in large .
The IMF is a monster and there is no doubt about it; it has ruined many low-income countries and a lot has been written about the harms it has done to developing nations and emerging economies and how it has pushed millions into poverty through its straight-jacket approach where one size fits all is the rule.
5916, 129 PMEisenhowers Farewell Address to the Nation.docxalinainglis
5/9/16, 1:29 PMEisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation
Page 1 of 5http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm
Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the
Nation
January 17, 1961
Good evening, my fellow Americans: First, I should like to express my
gratitude to the radio and television networks for the opportunity they have
given me over the years to bring reports and messages to our nation. My special
thanks go to them for the opportunity of addressing you this evening.
Three days from now, after a half century of service of our country, I shall lay
down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the
authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.
This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts
with you, my countrymen.
Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the
coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.
Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on questions of great moment,
the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the nation.
My own relations with Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of
the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-
war period, and finally to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.
In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to
serve the nation well rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the nation should
go forward. So my official relationship with Congress ends in a feeling on my part, of gratitude that we have
been able to do so much together.
We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great
nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest,
the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we
yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress,
riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human
betterment.
Throughout America's adventure in free government, such basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to
foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among peoples and
among nations.
5/9/16, 1:29 PMEisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation
Page 2 of 5http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm
A vital element in keeping
the peace is our military
establishment. Our arms
must be mighty, ready for
instant action, so that no
potential aggressor may be
tempted to risk his own
destruction.
To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people.
Any failure traceable t.
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. RooseveltWEDNESDAY, JA.docxrtodd280
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937
When four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here. We dedicated ourselves to the fulfillment of a vision--to speed the time when there would be for all the people that security and peace essential to the pursuit of happiness. We of the Republic pledged ourselves to drive from the temple of our ancient faith those who had profaned it; to end by action, tireless and unafraid, the stagnation and despair of that day. We did those first things first.
Our covenant with ourselves did not stop there. Instinctively we recognized a deeper need--the need to find through government the instrument of our united purpose to solve for the individual the ever-rising problems of a complex civilization. Repeated attempts at their solution without the aid of government had left us baffled and bewildered. For, without that aid, we had been unable to create those moral controls over the services of science which are necessary to make science a useful servant instead of a ruthless master of mankind. To do this we knew that we must find practical controls over blind economic forces and blindly selfish men.
We of the Republic sensed the truth that democratic government has innate capacity to protect its people against disasters once considered inevitable, to solve problems once considered unsolvable. We would not admit that we could not find a way to master economic epidemics just as, after centuries of fatalistic suffering, we had found a way to master epidemics of disease. We refused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes of disaster.
In this we Americans were discovering no wholly new truth; we were writing a new chapter in our book of self-government.
This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Constitutional Convention which made us a nation. At that Convention our forefathers found the way out of the chaos which followed the Revolutionary War; they created a strong government with powers of united action sufficient then and now to solve problems utterly beyond individual or local solution. A century and a half ago they established the Federal Government in order to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to the American people.
Today we invoke those same powers of government to achieve the same objectives.
Four years of new experience have not belied our historic instinct. They hold out the clear hope that government within communities, government within the separate States, and government of the United States can do the things the times require, without yielding its democracy. Our tasks in the last four years did not force democracy to take a holiday.
Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good. The es.
Statement by The Honourable Allen M Chastanet Prime Minister of Saint Lucia and Minister of for Finance, Economic Growth, Job Creation, External Affairs and Public Service to the General Debate of the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Saving the American Dream: The Heritage Plan to Fix the Debt, Cut Spending, a...The Heritage Foundation
In this landmark report, The Heritage Foundation presents a comprehensive plan to grow the economy and balance the budget. Saving the American Dream boldly reforms Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, taxes, health insurance, and government spending. Dive deep into these policy ideas with seven full-color charts and six in-depth tables. Originally published May 2011.
The New Deal, 1932-19401First New Deal (the Hundr.docxoreo10
The New Deal, 1932-1940
1
First New Deal (the “Hundred Days”)
Changes in American Life and Thought
Democratic Party
Liberalism
Public Works
Freedom
Economic Security
Initial approach to economic crisis
New Deal as alternative to socialist, Nazi, and Laissez-faire solutions
Circle of advisors
Leading figures: Francis Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes
Louis Brandeis
“Brains trust”
First New Deal (the “Hundred Days”)
FDR inaugural: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Financial program
Initiatives
“Bank holiday”
FDIC
Removal of United States from gold standard
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Industry codes for output, prices, working conditions
Recognition of labor’s right to organize
Restoration of economic vitality, stability
Ebbing of public enthusiasm; growth of controversy
Corporate domination
I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impel. This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days…Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
FDR’s First Inaugural Address
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish…Restoration calls, however, not ...
As Steve Jobs once said ” Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
this is due in 7 hours....... must have done in 7 hours.... must.docxkbrenda
this is due in 7 hours....... must have done in 7 hours....
must write at least 5 paragraphs
Essay Question:
How did the New Deal change the role of government in the economy and society of the United States? Why did the change come about? In your answer, make clear the major achievements and limitations of the New Deal and the political factors that led to its success. It will be helpful to use the concepts “social welfare state” and “laissez faire,” and to contrast the New Deal with earlier government policies.
Write an original essay of about five paragraphs that
makes use of the sources provided
to answer the prompt. Structure your answer with a clear thesis statement in the first sentence, and supporting examples and reasoning in subsequent paragraphs. Choose specific examples from the sources provided below (1-7). ONLY use the sources below. You can not use other sources
1. Franklin Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address" (1933)
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.
Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly.
Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments, so that there will be an end to speculation with other people's money; and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
Source: Franklin Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address." March 4, 1933.
2. Franklin Roosevelt, "Statement on Signing the Social Security Act" (1935)
Today a hope of many years' standing is in large .
The IMF is a monster and there is no doubt about it; it has ruined many low-income countries and a lot has been written about the harms it has done to developing nations and emerging economies and how it has pushed millions into poverty through its straight-jacket approach where one size fits all is the rule.
5916, 129 PMEisenhowers Farewell Address to the Nation.docxalinainglis
5/9/16, 1:29 PMEisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation
Page 1 of 5http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm
Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the
Nation
January 17, 1961
Good evening, my fellow Americans: First, I should like to express my
gratitude to the radio and television networks for the opportunity they have
given me over the years to bring reports and messages to our nation. My special
thanks go to them for the opportunity of addressing you this evening.
Three days from now, after a half century of service of our country, I shall lay
down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the
authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.
This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts
with you, my countrymen.
Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the
coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.
Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on questions of great moment,
the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the nation.
My own relations with Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of
the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-
war period, and finally to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.
In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to
serve the nation well rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the nation should
go forward. So my official relationship with Congress ends in a feeling on my part, of gratitude that we have
been able to do so much together.
We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great
nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest,
the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we
yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress,
riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human
betterment.
Throughout America's adventure in free government, such basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to
foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among peoples and
among nations.
5/9/16, 1:29 PMEisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation
Page 2 of 5http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm
A vital element in keeping
the peace is our military
establishment. Our arms
must be mighty, ready for
instant action, so that no
potential aggressor may be
tempted to risk his own
destruction.
To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people.
Any failure traceable t.
Many ways to support street children.pptxSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
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A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
What is the point of small housing associations.pptxPaul Smith
Given the small scale of housing associations and their relative high cost per home what is the point of them and how do we justify their continued existance
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
Canadian Immigration Tracker March 2024 - Key SlidesAndrew Griffith
Highlights
Permanent Residents decrease along with percentage of TR2PR decline to 52 percent of all Permanent Residents.
March asylum claim data not issued as of May 27 (unusually late). Irregular arrivals remain very small.
Study permit applications experiencing sharp decrease as a result of announced caps over 50 percent compared to February.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
Up the Ratios Bylaws - a Comprehensive Process of Our Organizationuptheratios
Up the Ratios is a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap in STEM education for underprivileged students by providing free, high-quality learning opportunities in robotics and other STEM fields. Our mission is to empower the next generation of innovators, thinkers, and problem-solvers by offering a range of educational programs that foster curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.
At Up the Ratios, we believe that every student, regardless of their socio-economic background, should have access to the tools and knowledge needed to succeed in today's technology-driven world. To achieve this, we host a variety of free classes, workshops, summer camps, and live lectures tailored to students from underserved communities. Our programs are designed to be engaging and hands-on, allowing students to explore the exciting world of robotics and STEM through practical, real-world applications.
Our free classes cover fundamental concepts in robotics, coding, and engineering, providing students with a strong foundation in these critical areas. Through our interactive workshops, students can dive deeper into specific topics, working on projects that challenge them to apply what they've learned and think creatively. Our summer camps offer an immersive experience where students can collaborate on larger projects, develop their teamwork skills, and gain confidence in their abilities.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933
Study Questions:
1. According to Pres. Roosevelt, who or what has caused the nation’s financial woes?
2. How does he propose to address those woes? Are his plans a stark departure from previous
systems and ways of thinking or does he propose to work within inherited ideas and
frameworks?
3. If you were living during this time, would this speech reassure you despite the Great
Depression or does it sound like more political rhetoric? Find specific passages to support your
position.
I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will
address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impel. This
is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we
shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it
has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the
only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which
paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a
leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people
themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to
leadership in these critical days.
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank
God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability
to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means
of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on
every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of
families are gone.
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an
equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of
the moment.
Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts.
Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not
afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts
have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight
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of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have
failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure,
and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of
public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced
by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of
profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to
exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a
generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may
now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to
which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill
of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad
chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that
our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with
the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued
only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct
in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and
selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on
honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without
them it cannot live.
Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and
action now.
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it
wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government
itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through
this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of
our natural resources.
Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial
centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use
of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the
values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can
be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our
small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local
governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped
by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It
can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of
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communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many
ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must
act and act quickly.
Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return
of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and
investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people’s money, and there must be
provision for an adequate but sound currency.
There are the lines of attack. I shall presently urge upon a new Congress in special session
detailed measures for their fulfillment, and I shall seek the immediate assistance of the several
States.
Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order
and making income balance outgo. Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are
in point of time and necessity secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy. I
favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first. I shall spare no effort to restore world
trade by international economic readjustment, but the emergency at home cannot wait on that
accomplishment.
The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly
nationalistic. It is the insistence, as a first consideration, upon the interdependence of the various
elements in all parts of the United States—a recognition of the old and permanently important
manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer. It is the way to recovery. It is the immediate
way. It is the strongest assurance that the recovery will endure.
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the
neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others—
the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with
a world of neighbors.
If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before our
interdependence on each other; that we can not merely take but we must give as well; that if we
are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a
common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes
effective. We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline,
because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. This I propose to offer,
pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty
hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife.
With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people
dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.
Action in this image and to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have
inherited from our ancestors. Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always
to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential
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form. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring
political mechanism the modern world has produced. It has met every stress of vast expansion of
territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations.
It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly
adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand
and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of
public procedure.
I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in
the midst of a stricken world may require. These measures, or such other measures as the
Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within my constitutional
authority, to bring to speedy adoption.
But in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, and in the event that
the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then
confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis—broad
Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given
to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.
For the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and the devotion that befit the time. I can do
no less.
We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of the national unity; with the
clear consciousness of seeking old and precious moral values; with the clean satisfaction that
comes from the stern performance of duty by old and young alike. We aim at the assurance of a
rounded and permanent national life.
We do not distrust the future of essential democracy. The people of the United States have not
failed. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action. They
have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. They have made me the present
instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it.
In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and
every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address,March 4, 1933, as published in Samuel Rosenman, ed., The
Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volume Two: The Year of Crisis, 1933 (New York: Random House, 1938),
11–16, available at: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/