shereen gorani agrees she shares a lot of the greens frustrations. but decided to run for congress as a democrat i think third party politics has risen to give people that sort of sense that they could have a voice unfortunately as the system works we're going to have more success if we can get in line behind one of these two major parties and really start talking about the issues that. to everyday people but the green say democrats aren't doing enough the democrats have traditionally not been able to stand up they've offered no solutions and in fact also corporate backed they will always choose their corporate donors and the elite over whether people on the planet me may be small in numbers but greens are fired up ready setting their sights on the midterm elections hoping to change not only the direction of american policy but the election system itself kristen salumi al jazeera salt lake city utah. a study has found that modern day slavery in rich countries is far higher than previously thought they don't as global slavery index report says more th

. >> supervisor cohen: one more thing, shereen, madam clerk, can you call item three? >> clerk: yes. item three, resolution approving and affirming the 2018 dignity community funds needs assessment. >> supervisor cohen: all right. thank you. go ahead. >> okay. so that -- that item or that piece of it, and then, i need to also present to you the community needs assessment today for your approval and to hopefully move on it to the full board next week. >> supervisor cohen: all right. >> so this year, we've been business busy doing the dignity needs assessment. i gijust want to start by givi some evidence where we are. this plan are outline funding strategies for the next four years and be based on the needs assessment. that also includes all of the dollars that we have in the -- in the dignity fund bucket, which is approximately 54 million right now. the cycle will begin again in 2020 -- 2021 and '22 with another large scale community needs assessment. our goal with the dignity fund community needs assessment was to really have a very, very robust participatory process w

shereen gorani agrees she shares a lot of the greens frustrations. but decided to run for congress as a democrat i think third party politics has risen to give people that sort of sense that they could have a voice unfortunately as the system works we're going to have more success if we can get in line behind one of these two major parties and really start talking about the issues that matter to everyday people but the green say democrats aren't doing enough the democrats have traditionally not been able to stand up they've offered no solutions and in fact being also corporate backed they will always choose their corporate donors and the elite over whether people in the planet me they may be small in numbers but greens are fired up. setting their sights on the midterm elections hoping to change not only the direction of american policy but the election system itself kristen salumi al jazeera salt lake city utah. i'm joined now from los angeles by bill schneider a political analyst and author of standoff how america became ungovernable thank you very

shereen gorani agrees she shares a lot of the greens frustrations. but decided to run for congress as a democrat i think third party politics has risen to give people that sort of sense that they could have a voice unfortunately as the system works we're going to have more success if we can get in line behind one of these two major parties and really start talking about the issues that matter to everyday people but the green say democrats aren't doing enough the democrats have traditionally not been able to stand up they've offered no solutions and in fact being also corporate backed they will always choose their corporate donors and the elite over whether people in the planet me who may be small in numbers but greens are fired up. setting their sights on the midterm elections hoping to change not only the direction of the. in policy but the election system itself christensen al-jazeera salt lake city utah. good to have you with us adrian forget here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera israeli air strike has killed a palestinian man in gaza suspected