As this special report will explain, the changes now under way will pose huge challenges not only to governments but also to employers and individual workers.

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Now, these are the challenges that we can only solve together, and that's been our approach to the unique challenges facing Indian country.

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Creators now need to fill in a Risks and Challenges assessment, not only to help backers understand what might go wrong and how well qualified the creator is to deal with such problems, but also to make creators think about worst case scenarios.

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Because the truth is, the only way that we can truly attack our economic challenges, the only way we can put hundreds of thousands of people back to work right now is with bold action from Congress.

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"A candid discussion of the new challenges is only the first step forward in a long and arduous journey that Delhi and Beijing have now begun, " the paper's editorial adds.

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The memorandum I'll sign directs every Cabinet agency to give me a detailed plan within 90 days of how -- the full implementation of that executive order and how we're going to improve tribal consultation. (Applause.) After all, there are challenges we can only solve by working together, and we face a serious set of issues right now.

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"In the course of our history, only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as serious as the ones we face right now, " he said.

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