Podcasts about emerging issues forum

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people.   On today's episode, Colin Campbell speaks with Sarah Langer Hall, director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at N.C. State University, and Philip Cooper, practitioner-in-residence at the institute and an expert on workforce development. Hall and Cooper preview the upcoming Emerging Issues Forum on Feb. 13, which this year is focused on Talent First Economics. They tell us about how to address workforce development challenges by focusing on the needs of underrepresented workers who have historically faced barriers to employment and staying engaged in the workplace.

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people.   On today's episode, Colin Campbell speaks with Sarah Langer Hall, director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at N.C. State University, and Philip Cooper, practitioner-in-residence at the institute and an expert on workforce development. Hall and Cooper preview the upcoming Emerging Issues Forum on Feb. 13, which this year is focused on Talent First Economics. They tell us about how to address workforce development challenges by focusing on the needs of underrepresented workers who have historically faced barriers to employment and staying engaged in the workplace.

In this episode of First in Future, we have the first five time guest, Sarah Langer Hall, the Institute for Emerging Issues Senior Policy and Program Manager. We talk with her about the 35th Emerging Issues Forum, which happens virtual over four days with a range of exciting guests. We learn how she pulls it all together, what she has learned along the way and attending this forum, what will we come away with.

Episode 43. March 27, 2020 CLP Topic Category: Vichy Republican Collaborators Who Is It In America That Is Responsible For Implementing the Trade Agreements With China? Note to visitors: Our podcast today is the Introduction to a much longer document that explains who it is in America that was responsible for implementing the trade deals with China. The other sections of the longer podcast are: The American Roots of Globalism The Link Between Globalism and American Crony Capitalism Civil Dissolution or Civil War? Irreconcilable Differences You can access this podcast, for free, for one week, at our website. You can subscribe to our entire archive of podcasts and text at our website for $30 per year.   Introduction: Our podcast today examines the argument made by Mike Slater, on the tv program, The First, that China is an enemy of the United States. Slater explains that the most recent Wu Virus is only the latest of three epidemics, in 20 years, unleashed on the world by the militaristic, repressive Communist regime in Beijing. The most charitable interpretation of this behavior by the Communists is that they are wildly incompetent to control the outbreaks of deadly diseases. The more accurate interpretation of the behavior, explained by Slater, is that they are an enemy of the U. S., intent on destroying the fabric of American society. Our podcast today adopts the second interpretation in order to examine what political and financial forces in America were responsible for forming the close ties between the two countries. We agree with the analysis of Curtis Ellis, in his article, China's Post-Virus Plan to Destroy America's Economy, where he states that, “The “respected voices” calling for America to lift the tariffs on China are simply swallowing Beijing's sophisticated propaganda. China means to use this crisis to destroy us…Moreover, Beijing sees an opportunity in the pandemic to reverse President Trump's call to move manufacturing out of China. China's State Administration of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND), stated: “China will get more opportunities, including in the reduction of pressure for the international industrial chain to transfer away from China . . . The global epidemic has provided opportunities for improving China's international position and countering anti-globalization.” We argue that, in the late 1980s, the 1500 member companies of the Business Roundtable were effective in perpetrating a fraud that China was just like any other country in terms of global trade. We argue that those same corporate actors continue, today, to coordinate their political strategy with special interest lobbying groups and crony capitalist elected representatives, who obtain personal financial benefits from passing legislation that have continued the re-authorization of the deals with China. The lobbyists for the Business Roundtable and U.S. Chamber of Commerce, wrote the draft legislation, in 1999, in order for the corporations to obtain huge profits from moving production to China, and then selling those cheap goods back to the American market. The main political representatives who voted initially to implement the deals, and then voted to re-authorize the deals, are a coalition of Democrats and Republicans, who obtained vast financial benefits from “tribute” paid by the corporations. The large corporations obtained an 80% cost saving in production of goods in China, and while a small portion of the savings showed up in cheaper goods, the vast majority went to the bottom line profits of the large corporations. Most of the profits earned from overseas production were never taxed in the U. S., and were never repatriated, in the form of capital investments, back into the U. S. domestic economy The U. S. corporate profits were reinvested in China, which empowered the successful Chinese economy, and allowed their national champion industries to become wildly profitable. Elected representatives at the state and Federal level worked together to advocate the public benefits of trade with China. For example, In North Carolina, Governor Hunt hosted an annual event, called the Emerging Issues Forum, to promote global trade. Governor Hunt created the Forum in October 1985 to provide a catalyst for the discussion and action needed to move the United States forward in the world economy. His political mantra was that North Carolina workers must be “competitive” with global workers. The second conference, in February 1987, drew 1,500 people to the McKimmon Center on the NC State University campus and featured speakers that included Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, Newt Gingrich, Hillary Clinton, Steve Forbes, Robert Rubin, Jay Rockefeller, Amory Lovins, Al Gore, and Paul Volcker. While President Trump has correctly ranted incessantly about the unfair trade deals, he never identifies the political or corporate actors, listed above, who are responsible for allowing the trade deals to be enacted. Citizens need to know who it was in America that engaged in a form of national economic sedition of collaborating with an enemy. The Wu Virus is helping the citizens understand the extent of the danger caused by trade with China, but the virus has not clarified who is responsible for the economic damage. Our podcast goes further to explain who these agents are that promoted the trade fraud with China. We argue that the economic chaos inflicted by the Wu Virus is only the most immediate consequence of trade with China. Less well known is the negative effect on U. S. labor markets that became overly dependent on service jobs. In 2000, prior to the trade deals with China,, about  17,000 American workers were employed the production of goods, primarily in manufacturing firms. In 2000, about 75,000 workers were employed in the service industries. In 2018, only 12,688 workers were employed in manufacturing and 129,000 workers, or 80% of the U. S. labor force, was employed in services. The services economy is commonly called the “gig” economy, that features low paying, unstable jobs, that offer no health benefits. In Governor Hunt's propaganda of the benefits of trade with China, required North Carolina workers to be “competitive” with China meant transferring North Carolina jobs from manufacturing to the gig economy. North Carolina's formerly diversified economy employed about 800,000 workers in manufacturing, before the trade deals. After the trade deals with China, out of a total state workforce of 5 million, about 400,000 workers were employed in manufacturing, and over 1 million were employed in the service sectors. The service industry is made up of restaurant workers and retail shops, and is the most vulnerable to mass layoffs from the Chinese disruption to the S. economy.   After the trade deals were implemented, the U. S. labor market and economy lacked diversification, and its occupational job structure looked just like the third world economies in Latin America and Africa. The relocation of medical supply chains by large global corporations also exposed another hidden consequence of trade with China. When the entire inter-industry manufacturing supply chains moved to China, local towns that relied on manufacturing jobs were devastated. Those local economies became overly dependent on service jobs, and on increased government welfare payments. More importantly, by moving the supply chains off shore, America's single most important competitive initial factor endowment of technological innovation was lost. Technological innovation, prior to the trade deals, used to occur in the metro regional manufacturing supply chains in 350 metro regions, as a result of tacit knowledge creation and diffusion among the small manufacturing firms. After the trade deals, the citizens discovered that innovation and product commercialization does not occur in the gig economy. Innovation occurs in the industrial supply chains, now located in China. We argue that the members of the Business Roundtable, and the establishment Republican Party knew, in advance, the economic damage that would be caused by moving the supply chains to China, but calculated that the benefits of their increased profits outweighed the social costs imposed upon American citizens. Part of their propaganda, at the time, was that there would be high paying, stable jobs in services that replaced the high paid manufacturing jobs. This was a lie, and the elites knew it was a lie, at the time that they used it to change the laws on trade with China. The dysfunctional American political system is accurately described by Angelo Codevilla, as the Ruling Class, who make decisions that are not connected to the will of the citizens. Secret decisions by the Ruling Class are the primary cause for the trade agreements with China. The American citizens were never informed about the globalist intent of the elites, or the permanent economic damage caused by the deals, until it was too late. We conclude that the problem of a dysfunctional crony capitalist system and the centralized Ruling Class elite tyranny in Washington cannot be fixed, under the existing Constitution. The ideology of globalism, in both the socialist Democrat and crony corporate Republican Party is too entrenched, and the unelected power of the deep state agents are too deeply embedded in the government apparatus to be dislodged by common citizens, through periodic elections. We conclude that nothing binds the globalist factions together in a common national mission with Trump's national sovereignty ideology. The global Democrat socialists will never voluntarily obey the unwritten American rule of law because they will never share the cultural belief that all persons, institutions, and entities are subject to the equal application of the law. The crony global corporate elites will never, willingly, give up their trans-national global trading privileges to share power with common citizens, in the current framework of the representative republic. The establishment Republicans, like Senator Burr, of North Carolina, derive too many financial benefits from collaborating with the Democrats and global corporations, to change the status quo of power, or the distribution of tribute. The solution for citizens is to follow the advice of Jefferson, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to the ends for which it was created, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government. The best, non-violent, idea for dealing with the irreconcilable ideological differences is a civil dissolution of the nation and the implementation of a new government, based upon the framework of state sovereignty, under the provisions of Article I, Section 10, Clause 3, the state compact clause. I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this is the copyrighted Citizen Liberty Party News Network podcast for March 27, 2020. Our podcast today is under the CLP topic category Vichy Republican Collaborators and is titled, Who Is It In America That Is Responsible For the Trade Agreements With China? The most recent podcast of the CLP News Network is available for free. The entire text and audio archive of our podcasts are available for subscription of $30 per year, at the CLP News Network.com.  

Early last month, before the spread of the novel coronavirus turned staying home from a quiet night in into a moral imperative, Christopher traveled to North Carolina to attend the Institute for Emerging Issues Forum at North Carolina State University. While there, he interviewed Leslie Boney, Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues. He also spoke with … Continue reading "Bridging Divides, Building Opportunity in Rural and Urban North Carolina – Community Broadband Bits North Carolina Bonus Episode!"

Poets can sometimes tell us something we haven’t thought of before, force us to confront a truth we’d rather avoid or help us see something in a way we hadn’t seen it. We wondered what would happen if a poet came to our most recent Institute for Emerging Issues forum on digital inclusion and turned some of what he heard into poetry. We invited Chris Vitiello, “the Poetry Fox,” to do just this and he is our First in Future guest for the second of two episodes. This episode we are letting him share some of the remarkable poems he created at our Emerging Issues Forum, ReCONNECT to Technological Opportunity, to do a little showcase about what it means to have a poet’s eye and ear listening in on a discussion of public policy.

This is episode number six of the special podcast project we’re working on with NC Broadband Matters to share North Carolina news, challenges, and innovations about broadband in their state.  Christopher went on a trip to in February to attend the Institute for Emerging Issues Forum at North Carolina State University. The event addressed a wide range of topics, … Continue reading "Contending with the Homework Gap – Community Broadband Bits Podcast, Bonus Episode Six"

In February, Christopher was in North Carolina at the Institute for Emerging Issues Forum at North Carolina State University. While he was there, he had the opportunity to conduct several interviews with people engaged in research, working with boots on the ground to expand broadband, or advocating for better policy so more people have access to high-quality Internet access. One of the … Continue reading "Talking Telehealth with Danika Tynes, Ph.D. – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 397"

Traditionally when you think of poets, they sit in a quiet room and produce distilled wisdom on paper to an internal beat. Those poets have more visible cousins these days, folks who perform in public and that you hear on the street or at poetry slams. And if you live in North Carolina, you may see one of them dressed up in a giant fox costume, creating poetry on demand. Chris Vitiello is “the Poetry Fox,” and he is our First in Future guest for the next two episodes. First we will hear about the role of poetry in our state today and looking forward into the future. Next episode we will let him share some of the remarkable poems he created at our most recent Emerging Issues Forum, ReCONNECT to Technological Opportunity, to do a little showcase about what it means to have a poet’s eye and ear listening in on a discussion of public policy.

Christopher went to North Carolina earlier this month to attend the Institute for Emerging Issues Forum at North Carolina State. While he was there, he interviewed Dr. Jeff Cox, President of Wilkes Community College, and Zach Barricklow Vice President of Strategy for the college. The conversation was too good not to share as another bonus episode for the … Continue reading "Connecting Community Colleges for Opportunity and Development – Community Broadband Bits North Carolina Bonus Episode!"

Artificial intelligence will soon be making decisions about who gets jobs, whether you get a loan, and what sort of diagnosis you get for a condition. That is why you should join us for our February 10 Emerging Issues Forum in Raleigh, when we will look at what we need to be doing now to make sure all the people across the state have the access and skills needed to compete in an AI-driven world. That is also why we are talking to this week's First in Future guest, Phaedra Boinodiris, IBM Global Lead for Serious Games and a serial entrepreneur, founder of womengamers.com, recipient of six patents, and author of the book "Serious Games for Business." She is on a mission to change the way we teach technology in our schools, and how we make our way in a world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence.

The next Emerging Issues Forum, ReCONNECT to Economic Opportunity, is coming up on October 15 in Charlotte. It’s going to be a day focused on the people at the core of our economy—adult workers and their future. We will talk with people who have good ideas for helping them move up and forward. Before we look forward, we think it’s useful to examine our history. This week on First in Future, our guest is Dr. Karl Campbell of Appalachian State University’s History department. He talks to us about our state’s history in segregation, Governor Hodges and Senator Ervin during that time period, and how to look to what our past can tell us about our future. Lastly, he tells us the interesting origin of our state’s many nicknames.

At IEI, we’re getting ready for our next Emerging Issues Forum, ReCONNECT to Economic Opportunity, coming up on October 15 in Charlotte. It’s going to be a day focused on the people at the core of our economy—adult workers. Once they begin their working careers, we tend to turn our attention away. But many of those workers are struggling to advance. On October 15, we’ll talk with people who have good ideas for helping them move up. This week on First in Future, our guest is our very own Policy and Programs Manager Alicia James. As the lead planner for the forum, she’s been thinking about this issue for the past year. She tells us about why it’s important to our state’s future, what Charlotte and other communities are doing to help, and what you’ll learn if you register to attend the forum in October.

State of NC community college presidents met recently to work through some of the details of what community colleges could do to help address a huge challenge of meeting the needs of employers between now and 2030. North Carolina is going to need 2 million more people with some sort of education that is more than just a high school degree. It could be a four year degree or a two year degree. If we do nothing, we are going to come up 700,000 people short, so a lot of people are looking for ways to build a pipeline of young folks to meet some of that need. This week’s First in Future guest, Peter Hans, president of the State of NC Community College System knows with absolute certainty that the community colleges will play a critical role with their continuing education and curriculum programs to help address this employment education need and other challenges. The Institute for Emerging Issues is going to be looking at what we can do to help more adults get that additional level of education at our next Emerging Issues Forum, coming up October 15 in Charlotte. IEI is looking for inspirational examples from employers, support organizations and educational entities who are getting our adult workers the credentials they need in time to get ready for their next job.

NC State University's Institute for Emerging Issues is bringing its forum to Asheville in a month, September 17. New York Times columnist David Brooks will headline the event. Leslie Boney is the IEI's director. He spoke with BPR's Jeremy Loeb about the focus of this year's forum, titled ReCONNECT to Community.

NC State University's Institute for Emerging Issues is bringing its forum to Asheville in a month, September 17. New York Times columnist David Brooks will headline the event. Leslie Boney is the IEI's director. He spoke with BPR's Jeremy Loeb about the focus of this year's forum, titled ReCONNECT to Community.

Veronica Nigh of American Farm Bureau Federation tackles the question of how foreign ownership in US ag companies affects producers. Jake Joraanstad, CEO/Co-Founder of the "Bushel" platform, introduces a cloud-based tool that farmers and grain sellers to can share information in real-time. It was discussed ahead of the Ethanol 2018 Emerging Issues Forum in LaVista. Travis Pralle discusses the upcoming NACTA judging conference, the largest agriculture conference in the nation.

Veronica Nigh of American Farm Bureau Federation tackles the question of how foreign ownership in US ag companies affects producers. Jake Joraanstad, CEO/Co-Founder of the "Bushel" platform, introduces a cloud-based tool that farmers and grain sellers to can share information in real-time. It was discussed ahead of the Ethanol 2018 Emerging Issues Forum in LaVista. Travis Pralle discusses the upcoming NACTA judging conference, the largest agriculture conference in the nation.

We talk with leaders from across North Carolina who gathered in Raleigh this week for the 2018 Emerging Issues Forum. This year’s Forum focused on investing early in our children’s education and health and the impact it has on our state’s economy. Guests: • Leslie Boney, Director, Institute for Emerging Issues • Brenda Howerton, President, NC Association of County Commissioners • Mark Richardson, Chairman, Rockingham County Commission • NC Governor Roy Cooper • Jim Hansen, Regional President, PNC Bank • Venessa Harrison, President, AT&T North Carolina • Dr. Mandy Cohen, Secretary, NC Dept. of Health & Human Services

Through out his long service to the state, even former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt’s opponents admit that he was a man perfectly suited to be Governor, and in his sixteen years as governor of North Carolina, he changed the state. This week we sat down with Governor James B. Hunt and talked about one big idea he had – starting the Emerging Issues Forum. Why he did it. What we can learn from how he thought about it. And how we can apply that to the way we learn.

At the Emerging Issues Forum on Innovation a couple of years ago, one of the clear findings was that outside of the Triangle and Charlotte, there wasn’t a really a fully developed structure in other cities and towns in North Carolina, to nurture people who wanted to start new, innovative businesses – we hadn’t built an entrepreneurial ecosystem. After the Forum, Anita Brown-Graham, the long-time head of the Institute for Emerging Issues, and Forward Communities CEO Christopher Gergen came up with an idea to jumpstart innovation nodes in other parts of the state. Eighteen communities applied to be part of the effort, and in the end, only five were selected. For the past two years, those cities—Greensboro, Asheville, Wilmington/Carolina Coast, Wilson and Pembroke—have all formed local teams. They have been meeting together regularly to share ideas to figure out how to build off of local assets so that a more diversity of people in those communities are creating businesses, and so that once those businesses get launched, they can get the kind of support they need to be successful. Each of the communities have developed a plan for going forward, and they want to help other communities. With the support of RTI International, the NC Department of Commerce's Office of Science, Technology & Innovation, Forward Communities, and the Institute for Emerging Issues, they’ve applied some of their learnings to a tool that other communities can use to assess what they have, and begin the process of figuring out to get more innovative. Visit InnovateNC.org to download the tool, and put it to work in your town or community. This week, we talk with Rodger Lentz, City of Wilson’s Chief Planning and Development Officer who heads up the innovative work that Wilson is doing, and IEI Policy Manager Sarah Langer Hall who planned and designed the InnovateNC program for IEI.

In the center of Pembroke, a sleepy town of just 3,000 in southeastern North Carolina, the Thomas Family Center for Entrepreneurship at UNC Pembroke has set up shop in a restored furniture store. Heading the center is an unlikely leader: Thomas Hall, a man who, until recently, worked in Boston to launch a number of consumer products. His new charge is to work with an enthusiastic group of citizens to figure out how to create a vibrant innovation ecosystem in Robeson County, just a few miles from the South Carolina border. Pembroke's team is joining with similar communities as a part of InnovateNC, an initiative that grew out of IEI's 2015 Emerging Issues Forum, Innovation Reconstructed. Their goal is to, in part, assess their assets and try to build on - not abandon - them. This week, we talk to Thomas Hall in the Thomas Center's 20,000 sq. ft. incubator about "coop-itition," the county's first makerspace, and how entrepreneurial success can transform this small community.

We continue our tour of UNC campuses with a visit to UNC Charlotte. Piedmont Biofuels produces & promotes locally-made biodiesel. And Anita Brown-Graham gives us a preview of the 2014 Emerging Issues Forum.

We continue our series on NC's community colleges with Southwestern Community College. Frank Graff hits the slopes at Wolf Ridge Resort to see how mild weather impacts the ski industry. And Sen. Kay Hagan & Sen. Richard Burr joined the conversation on manufacturing at this year's Emerging Issues Forum.

We continue our series on NC's community colleges with Southwestern Community College. Frank Graff hits the slopes at Wolf Ridge Resort to see how mild weather impacts the ski industry. And Sen. Kay Hagan & Sen. Richard Burr joined the conversation on manufacturing at this year's Emerging Issues Forum.

The Bob Barker Company in Fuquay-Varina has been distributing jail supplies for over 40 years. The Army Corps of Engineers is working to stabilize erosion at Fort Macon State Park. And Anita Brown-Graham gives us a preview of the annual Emerging Issues Forum taking place in Raleigh next week.