receive benefits. a recent economic analysis of california's program found that it reduced women's employment and earnings as well as their fertility rates. this is the opposite of what we should all want to achieve. instead, policymakers should see pro growth policies and other measures that can do more for low income families and all families. the strong economy and our 50-year record low unemployment rate produced large wage gains and those gains have been the strongest for lower income workers. those who make less than $25,000 a year gain about 1,500$1,500 additional in wages last year. low income black women gained about $2,400. that's enough to finance three and five weeks of family leave, if those workers don't need the leave, it's their own money to spend and save as they please. the tax cuts and jobs act has added $1,400 to the typical family household. more companies are adding new and expanded paid leave benefits because of those tax cuts. policymakers can build on these gains by helping to

i think the word is getting out and people are like can the benefits -- liking the benefits. just a couple of comments on page 14. this is a snapshot of enrollment, these pages that i just went over. so you know, from january 1 to november, when we started looking at this. there is plenty of retirement. there are people who leave the city and new hires. so those change throughout the year. so this is looking at november. whereas the demographics report will go from january to january. and that will be showing january 1st. i think that's about all i wanted to say, except for the fact, something new we did this year, we provided two surveys. one was to our own staff and member services asking them about their thoughts on their preparedness for handling open enrollment. and then we did a follow-up survey with the staff after that. we also surveyed the entire membership asking for their feedback on open enrollment. and we received almost a thousand responses on the membership survey. so i was going to add a little bit of that in this report. but i got so interested in it, that i

through the smile way benefit. so that is why there is the difference in the flyers. but we have been promoting these at the health fair. i actually helped two of your retirees in role at the health fair just recently. they were really excited to learn about the program and that was really the conversation that we had during the health affairs the next slide is what you are currently doing. you are promoting on your plan resource section the delta dental wellness highlight. so both of the flyers are on your website and you also have a smile way program section and it actually gives the instructions to members on how they can and role in the plan. and then what i didn't put on here, and i'm so sorry, but you did promote smile way. you have, both in the retiree and the active benefit guides for 2020. you have a paragraph and there is a smile way pattern on there. and also there is a little footer on the benefit summary page in case they didn't read the content. there is a reference on the benefit highlight peace as w

include the excluded benefit. i'll walk through that. so the benefit, if we cover up to 24 one-way trips -- i just woke up with a scratchy throat, so i'm sorry if i'm not clear. we cover up to 24 one-way trips, 50 miles per trip per calendar year. it's for nonmedical transportation. there is a few conditions that need to be met. need to be going to a appointment for a covered benefit in the evidence of coverage of course. they have to use the vendor that we contract with. so pretty basic stuff in terms of that. this cost that a member would pay for the transportation is zero co-pay. so that's covered at 100%. there are nonmedical transportation exclusions. i think the one that was particularly of interest last time is transportation for members who require a gurney wheelchair van. that is excluded and i want to explain why. let me emphasize though, if somebody is in the wheelchair and can make it to the curb, then the driver will assist them getting into the vehicle, store the wheelchair and get them out. and gett

what have been the benefits, what have the benefits been to the working families in your state?>> thank you for the question, congressman. 6.5 million .5 million workers covered in new jersey. this is for every worker in new jersey. irregardless of the size of the business. every worker can take part in it on the caregiving side. we have recently expanded our family leave program. having a higher wage replacement for 85% starting july 1 of next year. up from the current 66%. we have been trying to learn from it as we go along. i think the past years changes and improvements will go a long way to addressing a lot of the problems. implementation of paid family medical leave. i think that it will do a lot to reduce inequality. >> there are a lot of questions about impact on business. has new jersey's program negatively impacted the states businesses in the business climate? >> absolutely not. quite frankly it is about helping them with the claim quicker. an increase in businesses over the time. small businesses run 6% in new jersey. the person to my left talks about leveling the pl

, approve transportation without wheelchair benefit.and i'll have to look and see exactly what we did approve and to understand a little about -- because what i'm hearing is that, again, if you are going to provide wheelchair then there will be an additional per member per month cost or something is what i'm anticipating kaiser's going to come back with, and i don't think that was what we really intended. we intended to provide a transportation benefit and not exclude a certain percentage of our members, which is what the current benefit does that will start january 1. >> that is exactly how i remember it. >> that is correct. >> that we weren't going to have it unless you did the wheelchair. >> so debbie mcconaughey, kaiser permanente. so the plan that we have january 1 will have the ability of transporting in a wheelchair, but we cannot transport them sitting in a wheelchair. so for example, it's not a van where you can be transported sitting in your wheelchair, but if you have the ability to be transported where we would help assist t

that is the biggest benefit.0%. we are as hands—off as possible, and by introducing animals and by putting water back into the landscape which has formerly been drained, it allows mother nature to take its course and the wildlife comes back with it, as well. and the national trust have found that the topsy—turvy weather this year, with the warm start coupled with the wet autumn, is disrupting much of our wildlife across the uk. winners — we have had some of our migrant species flying across here to the country are things like the butterfly, the painted lady, which comes from africa and ends up on our shores and this year we have had really good numbers. nearly half a million in the count on one day. the losers could be the puffins, on the farne islands, which were suffering from a very wet day in june when their chicks were at their most vulnerable. go to the left, you canjust see a pair of gadwall. their heads are down feeding. this year saw the first pair of breeding cranes here in a century. this mosaic of wil

as i pointed out, who benefited? well, large corporations benefited dramatically by this bill, but they said look, we'll pass it on to the workers. but did they pass it on to the workers? in 2018, $1.1 trillion were used to repurchase stock to make the wealthiest even wealthier and did not go to the benefit of the workers. it benefited the greatest on the personal income tax side to the highest income taxpayers. they are the ones who benefited the most. it was not fair to middle-class taxpayers. secondly, a tax reform bill should be fiscally responsible. after all, we have taxes in order to raise revenue, in order to pay for services so we don't borrow from the future for our children and grandchildren to pay for what we're doing today. the administration said that this would be a fiscally responsible bill, so now the verdict's back. $2 trillion added to the national deficit. $2 trillion. it certainly has failed on fiscal responsibility. corporate taxes have gone down 40%, so we've given a break to corporations at th

so homeownership may be very important for the benefit of it -- the benefit it provides for the family in terms of security but i think americans , expecting that real estate, particularly personally held real estate will be their retirement security, will be in for a nasty shock. sen. heck: are you suggesting that they are mutually exclusive? mr. stone: there are times and places where real estate will appreciate and it will not have a negative impact on anyone else and it is not a result of exclusion. but there is an abundant amount of research at this point that suggests most of the really hot real estate markets in america are that way, not just because people decided that neighborhood was amazing, but because new supplies being kept off the market, generally by local regulatory choices. sen. heck: but in a market where demand significantly exceeds supply -- mr. stone: create new supply. sen. heck: it would be hard for me to exaggerate how strongly i agree with you, mr. stone. it is a supply issue, principally, not a demand issue. we are over 700 million housing units short in this

it did not provide any benefits. it articulated an enforcement priority which congress not only directed dhs to make, but in fact, required it to make because only 400,000 people -- >> i'm not sure that really responds to my question. i'll give you an example. let's say that there is a policy that a certain category of drug cases will not be in federal court and it's less than five kilos of cocaine. so cocaine cases with lesser amounts of drugs will not be prosecuted and federal court is a matter of enforcement priority and then that is changed. so the five kilos is reduced to three. would that be reviewable? >> well, what's the difference? >> the justice department through the attorney general, every new attorney general establishes new enforcement with respect to pornography, drug cases and things like that and it singled out a category of americans pursuant to congressional authorization and invited them into the program and provided other statutes which have not been challenged by the government and provided bene

benefit to use his office to get a personal benefit?heard professor feldman say during the hearing that this constituted as well a campaign finance violation. the problem with that -- >> can you answer my question, though? >> the answer is no, because a something as nebulous as the collateral effect on a campaign as a request to a foreign government to open up an investigation, at least in the eyes of the justice department, apparently the criminal division and the public integrity section is that's not sufficient to constitute a campaign finance violation. the answer to your question is no, it doesn't pass the personal benefit test. >> professor feldman, what about that? >> so that's preposterous. the question is not whether a statute has been violated. the question is whether the constitution violated. it's definitely not whether the department of justice that works for the president thinks it's been violated. in england, high crimes and misdemeanors were not always statutory crimes. it's a red herring to stay we should care at all wh

for the community benefit, if you can expound. for the $200,000 a year for ten years for street cleaning and safety, where will that money go specifically? is that outlineed? can you describe in more detail about that? is it going to the city? >> it comes through the city. it's over ten years, a $2 million contribution that is designated i believe to the to y for enhanced street cleaning in central soma. >> is that going into a category 8 fund? or would you read us the exact language? >> i can certainly find that out. >> that would be great. and $5 million for sunnydale hub. can someone speak to that and where that came from? >> i can certainly ask the project sponsor can answer your question about the evolution of the $5 million fund. >> okay. and just -- you mentioned the prop m preference. i've asked about this a few times. can you speak more about that? is this something that has been in past d.a.s or development agreements, is this a normal practice to physically give a priority preference? >> yeah. >> and you said they may g

and is there anyone benefiting from the us— china trade war?e will be finding out from an investment strategist. good morning, asia. hello, world. it's a thursday. thanks forjoining us for this edition of asia business report. i'm rico hizon. let's begin with the world's most profitable company, oil producer saudi aramco. it is announcing the final price for its shares today. its stock market debut is expected to be the biggest ever. so how did it get here? so how did it get is expected to be the biggest ever. so how did it get here? let's take a look. meanwhile, opec countries are getting ready to meet in vienna. the connection — saudi arabia is the de fa cto connection — saudi arabia is the de facto leader of opec and it wants the organisation and its allies to keep oil prices high ahead of aramco going public. iasked keep oil prices high ahead of aramco going public. i asked an analyst how much production cuts we are talking about. given the amount of oil in the world these days, and the prospect of sort of increased reduction out of the us,

it currently has a benefit for children. we don't want to lose it and roll it back in the child tax credit which we should expand and should pay for it with non- g.d.p. there you go. >> thank you for your indulgence. >> follow up on a couple of questions. mr.stone, in your testimony, you submitted to the committee, you state that the declining marriage rate accounts for at least half of the increase of fertility gap and for basically all of the increases since 2000, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> can you explain to us what you believe marriage rates are declining and what, if anything, can be done -- i'm hesitating to find the right words here. i don't want to live in a country where we have a nanny state that is going to incentivize people that tells them when to get married or where the government is artificially an environment when the government tells you when when to get married? >> this idea of the fertility gap and it is rising and not because people want more and more kids and fertility is falling. when we lo

it's still space could benefit developing countries such as. and it's one of the ways that we show this space technology the cation use especially so in this satellite program ok so it is one of the ways that we we get to understand how with can get a shot it benefits our development. ok so what is the satellite actually going to do and how's it going to benefit ethiopia. so for starts to give a very good platform for our in generic to. learn about sex and i technology development and the 2nd is since includes. satellite. is expected to measure environment and the whizzer that could hold for a better and cards for a planning stage ok give us a sense off how it works i mean you're obviously going to be manning the team in ethiopia just give us a sense of what the operations would be like the people who work on this project what will they be doing so basically like we have this ground gone station her dogs are back where it was a center and the engine areas and the scientists there will receive the data and and give it give the data to the possib

what is not common is direct presidential benefit from the misuse of power. in other words, there is almost always some distance between the beneficiaries of power and the president himself and presidents have set it up that way. almost every president has wanted to make sure certain people get certain favors and wanted to come close to crossing the law but always wanted to separate himself from that and create distance. most every president has wanted not to touch the dirtiest explications of power urrounding the office. i want to say something about today, i have read probably more than 10,000 transcripts for meetings and presidential communications. transcripts over the 200 years are filled with all kinds of lying and misuse of power. ut i have never read a president before this one demand personal favors with such epetition and flagrance. and lace the personal above policy issues above policy interests. the playing the resistance of it, the overwhelming nature of it and way in which the personal claims outweigh the role of the office is overwhelming in th

when it comes to all of the benefits of nuclear technology to which i was referring before. without that frame work and the regime, you would not see the kind of powerful, effective sharing of all of these benefits in-- from power generation to agriculture and whatever else it may be. all of that rests on the regime, the nonproliferation regime provided. reminding people of that is important. the issue of disarmament. you cannot imagine that moving forward. and were not a nonproliferation be in place. so in all of these ways the treaty has been incredibly important to providing structures that are important for day-to-day piece of our policy agenda and we need this opportunity to remind all states party of that so they can recommit themselves that they continue to be available to all of us arounded world, the global south, the east, the west, whatever it may be, to keep these benefits available for another 50 years so that when they have 100th anniversary of the conference, they can sit around and say what a relief it was that all of the people in 2019 and 2020 didn't keep i

and the people who are going to be benefiting from the additional spillover and ripple effects from this kind of growth so all the people who are involved in these supporting industries are going to see a huge amount of benefit from the end of this kind of state sanctioned delay essentially of what a what's a sort of i'm usually beneficial thing for everyone there's no reason for this to live in there in the 1st place i mean this is where the private sector should be doing more and the state should be doing less because in a private situation something like this would not have needed to be dragged out this all in the 1st place so in your mind then this can only be signaled as a good thing you mention pace that because for years the countries involved russia and ukraine primarily have struggled to forge an agreement this is coming off the back of these normandy format talks the recently held in paris is that the key thing that's changed what's changed now so this can happen. i think what's changed now is just basically economic interest has finally prevailed and is taking the day rig

at the same time, modifying benefits for those at the high-end. i think you're going to have a debate about social security in the coming years as we go forward simply because the program is running out of money. host: las vegas, republican. caller:. thank you. federal workers -- i do not know if there is a watchdog group about how efficient these agencies are but i would like to citizens for like responsible accounting practices. to investigatep -- to be able to go on the job and see if there is a lot of wasted money in -- and position >> c-span's "washington journal," live with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, democratic congresswoman val demings of florida and republican congressman ben cline from capitoloin us hill to discuss wednesday's scheduled full house vote on the impeachment of president trump. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern on wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has provided america unfiltered coverage of co

would that be for political benefit? >> well, i can't exclude anything under that definition. >> a few other presidents see where we go. congressman deutch informed us fdr put country first. now, franklin delaware roosevelt directed the internal revenue service to conduct audits of his political enemies. namely huey long, william randolph hurst, hamilton fish, father coughlin. would that be abuse of power for political benefit according to the other panelists? impeachable conduct? >> all subsouped into it. >> highway about when president kennedy directed his brother robert kennedy to deport one of his mistresses as an east german spy? would that qualify as impeachable conduct? >> once again i can't exclude it. >> how about when he directed the fbi to use wiretaps on congressional staffers who opposed him politically? is that impeachable conduct? >> seem to be falling within it. >> and let's go to barack obama. when barack obama directed, or made a finding that the senate was in recess and appointed people to the national

this benefits the whole country not just long—term payback. out. actually, economic failure in parts of the uk costs everyone who lives here and we are going to have to fix a problem if you want to be successful in the global economy. k, thank you very much indeed. the headlines on bbc news... at least 12 people have been killed, after a plane crashed in kazakhstan — but there are 60 survivors, including children. tributes are paid to a father and his two children, who drowned in a hotel swimming pool in spain on christmas eve. free hospital parking in england for some patients and visitors from april — but questions over how it will be funded. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's ben. good morning. england have consolidated in the last hour after a shaky start to their first innings in first test against south africa. after bowling the hosts out early on day two, both openers fell cheaply before thejoes — denly and root — pushed england to 60—2 at the lunch interval. england spinner alex hartley's been watching for

when it comes to all of the benefits of nuclear technology to which i was referring before. without that framework of the the regime, you would not see the kind of powerful, effective sharing of all of these benefits , from power generation to agriculture and whatever else it may be. all of that rests upon the foundations that the regime, the nonproliferation regime, provided. reminding people of that is important. the issue of disarmament. you couldn't imagine the disarmament agenda moving forward were it not for the nonproliferation regime in place to prevent newcomers coming into place in the vacuum that was created. so in all of these ways, the treaty has been incredibly important to providing foundational structures that we all depend upon for really important pieces for our day-to-day policy agenda. and we need this opportunity to remind all-state parties of that, so they can recommit themselves to making sure those benefits are available to all of us around the world, the global south, the east, the west, whatever it may be, to keep these benefits available for anothe

, you're not entitled to those benefits currently? >> that is correct. you are not entitled to any relocation payments. >> and when the legislation passes, you will be entitled to the same relocation benefits that are available to people, if one of those reasons you're evicted. >> that's right. it goes along with an eviction but not rent increase protections. that will be available for every resident that lives in a building covered by the rent ordinance for eviction controls. there are about 7,000 for tenants and tripled for the unit. >> i want to under score that is a big deal as well and it's something that hasn't gotten much attention. we are not just extending the just cause protections, but we're extending the relocation benefits for people that may be facing an owner-move in. they will have a right to significant relocation benefits and it provides some protections in terms of preventing, i would say deterrents for landlords that may want to take these steps, might reconsider evicting someone if they know they have to pay reloc

>> primarily because in acting for his own personal benefit and not for the benefit of the country, he has crossed a line. the line here is very clear. it becomes abuse of power when somebody's using the special authorities of their office for their own personal benefit and not the benefit of the country. >> can the same be said of president trump? >> it could be. >> thank you. i am struck by the parallels because one of the things nixon did was he launched tax investigations of his political opponents. here the evidence shows trump tried to launch a criminal investigation of his political opponent by a foreign government. we have heard evidence suggesting that president trump did this for his own personal gain and not for any national policy interests. president trump claims he withheld the aid because of concerns about corruption. i believe we have examples of the evidence of the truth. >> ambassador sondland stated the president only cares about big stuff. i noted there was big stuff going on in ukraine, like a war with russia. ambassador sondland he meant big stuff that benefited t

that benefits the russians. so this is why the argument is being made that the president is acting out of his own political interest and is undermining national security interests which we should all be concerned about with regard to countering what russia did in 2016 and avoiding that russia could do it again in 2020. and by helping russia, by throwing shade over the idea that they were the ones who interfered in saying, no, it could have been ukraine as well and the republicans amplifying this over the weekend, that's a damaging thing. >> i was just going to say that for viewers and others wondering why do we care so much about ukraine? there is a very important -- series of important reasons and dr. hill mentioned them, ambassador taylor. but let's talk about ukraine. if donald trump did this with regard to ukraine, how many other foreign policy issues is he managing in the same way? what do we know from the way he managed ukraine from all the testimony? he never really learned his brief. he doesn't know much

ok so what is the satellite actually going to do and how's it going to benefit ethiopia. so far started to give a very good platform for our engineer to. learn about sex and i technology development and the 2nd instance includes. satellite. is expected to measure environment and there was there that could hold for a better and cards for planning stage ok give us a sense off how it works i mean you're obviously going to be manning the team in ethiopia just give us a sense of what the operations would be like the people who work on this project what will they be doing. so basically like we have these ground gone 'd station her dogs about where as a center and this engine there are some of the scientists there will receive the data and and give it give the data to the possible stakeholders that could use that could benefit out of this data such as and culture the weather 'd minister as such ok so we know that china paid most of the bill for this project how will it be benefiting from it. so this is a really good opportunity for developing countries like they're so good. and

would be difficult to imagine the continuation or expansion of today's world wide sharing of the benefits of nuclear know-how without confidence that technology and materials would be relied kept out of the hands of unbiased persons such as terrorists. nevertheless there are still some people who don't see the nuclear security practices as a facilitator for technology sharing. they worry that security equities exist in some kind of tension with the global cooperative. thankfully this view is wrong and i'm pleased nsg collective commitment paper makes it so clear there is not attention here but rather strong complementarity but the paper does not just give us insight about how security reinforces butter to glades a number of practical topics or themes of emphasis that can provide focus and attention for us at. as members and the broader nuclear security community we work to write if i were in their efforts can be most successful. it stresses the importance of each state ensuring an adequate national security legislative develop and read literary framework by pointing out the countries impo

average benefit of $19,400. then the republican ta law increased taxes on millions of ians.oyians and -- illinois the salt deduction is a bedrock part of the tax code sincets inception. it has been around since the beginning of time. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. need to restore it and make sure that citizens get the benefit in their communities from their state government, and then be able to use it as a part of their income tax. i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. mr. smith: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the is leman from california recognized. mr. thompson: madam speaker, i yield one minute to the entleman from new york, a treasured member of our ways and means committee, congressman higgins. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. higgins: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam speaker, there are many tax s with the republican scheme, but the $10,000 state nd local tax deduction cap is one of the most egregiou

so it's not specific to this particular benefit.applies to the full federal workforce, understanding that that is a meaningful glitch that has applied to many, many things for many, many years and that we're working to fix. >> brennan: will contractors get to receive the benefits? i think four out of ten people who work for the government are contractors? >> it applies to our workforce, and under the same provision that all other benefits are administered, so it's consistent with that. >> brennan: but you would like to expand it? >> oh, our goal is to ensure that paid leave is available to all americans. but we're putting forth new solutions. a payroll tax increase is not going to be passed into law any time in the near future, so what are the other options? that's why the cassidy bill is so interesting. it's bypass. cosponsors in the house, in the senate. it provides people with flexibility. it is not mandate on business. oftentimes small business cannot afford the mandate. so it creates flexibility and discretion for the benefit o

it is a very generous benefit if you want to go that direction. only 5% of people end g up needg the significant care you just don't know when you'll be one of the 5% and i get people who say i did not sign up for the medicare drug benefit was eligible because i was not taking drugs and now ten years later the taking drugs and if you sign a plate you have to pay a penalty. it's how you feel about insurance in general. host:el julie with kaiser health news, the website kaiser health news.org or go to twitter and you can. [applause] >> thank you so much and for the hard work of your office making this event happen that is fantastic work here at the white house people in the know often describe for providing treatment as being in c

who's going to benefit? and how are we going to house those workers? this legislation will establish reporting requirements, not just for us to look back at what's happened, but us to look forward. especially every time that we are looking at large master plan developments to really understand the implications and to really plan for policy to house our workers. thank you very much. please support this legislation. >> hi, everyone. my name is mya tucloth and with the support of supervisor mar's legislation -- or to make this jobs housing fit report a requirement on an annual basis. san francisco needs more data-driven understandings of where we are, especially of our workforce and their housing needs. beyond just anecdotes, to create a substantive policy solutions. this annual jobs housing fit legislation will identify what housing affordability levels workers need to actually meet them where they're at in terms of wages. we need jobs housing fit data like my colleagues said every time that the planning commission and the board of supervisors consider a

we calculate benefits according to that. but i would be happy to answer any questions the board might have on this item. >> board questions? >> i have a few questions. thanks for telling us about this case. since the name porter is on here and i see the city is listed as defendant, that means the city not the retirement system? >> absolutely >> in terms of any damages are we going to be liable for that or will the city pay? >> i think she's suing the city so she would seek damages. and i don't know that the court would award damages to a nonparty to the lawsuit. i'm not an attorney. i'm not acting as an attorney. i've lost my attorney. >> in terms of her formula, it would be allowance we pay her increase? >> yes >> okay. a year or two ago when i'll call it the pob lawsuit about the supplemental cola they took the initiate-of-of finding a hundred people who would have fallen within that window and adjusted the pensions for that. do you recall that? >> yep >> okay. i'm wondering if it's the same -- the same reasoning would app

america, presidents have benefited personally. now we have 19th-century abuses and 20th-century abuses with the same administration. mr. banner: i would editorialize and say that's what makes this crisis extraordinarily grave. it mixes both kinds of misconduct within the same white house. the white house venturing into misconduct, and a shadow government inside and outside the government trying to promote policies not authorized by congress. prof. brownell: i think adding to that, it is important to remember that a 19th-century presidency was significantly smaller. that is the shift that happened with world war ii, 1945, the institutional power of the presidency grew tremendously during world war ii. and in the aftermath of world war ii. and very intentionally by acts of congress. they gave it that power. see thatw you institutional authority, a 19th-century president -- there is no remote possibility they could do what a 20th-century president can do because of the institutional power. i think that is keep you -- that is key. pro