we are under funded and the cbos are under funded and if you have a problem with the cbos hold at countbility and no problem. but if we are doing an excellent job and then pay us and quit discriminating against us and we have a right to live and we think that it is a human right, and i wish that you would take the consideration in this discussion, thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> and the next speaker, would be matel swift and cathy davis and those are the last two slips that i have and if anybody else wishes to speak during the public comment let us know. >> good afternoon, commissioners i am cathy davis and i am the executive director of bay view hunter's point services and i have been with the agency for 34 years, and in those 34 years, i have seen a lot of the same thing that i still see today. we run an adult day healthcare center that is about to be 30 years old and in those 30 years, the same issues are the same issues and i don't need to give you the statistics and you don't need to hear this one more time. but as the organizations that are out there, and really tried to do thing

and so, we are going through a process in identifying consultants and the folks who can train our cbos to improve their quality of service and i would be more than happy to come back and share with the council what is the result of all of that and i do know that i lot of our cbos and well, the system in general struggles with the notion of what does it mean to place a young person? do you call that successful? if you train them is that successful? if you place them in a job is that success, if you place them in a job and they get fired from the job a week later, you know? i mean, that things like that, i think that we as a city have to have the conversations about and we need to have the moral and ethical desire to support the kids from ato z, and so instead of just saying that we did it, good job. yeah right. >> and i look forward to working with the council on that. thank you. any questions for the staff? >> obviously i don't know how to use the mic. >> i have a comment, there is a difference between telling someone that they are okay and tolerance and acceptance and i think that is

say thet the cbo report number of full-time people were declined and others working fewer hours, is that in the way some have interpreted and you said a job loss? >> let's put it simply. 2.5 million fewer people will be working. is a goodhink that idea for the country to have more joblessness particularly as which isof this bill, a huge step in the wrong direction. i think it is the worst peas of legislation passed and the past half-century. by fact substantiated that premiums are going up all across the country. >> the duck doubles are going up and copayments are going go up. just the other day, it was announced 14,000 people were losing their policies here in kentucky. i'm sure there are some people getting insurance we do not have it before and most of the people who signed up our medicaid and that is medicaid eligible people bond the private insurance market -- >> that is 85,000 people. >>. insurance after having policies canceled and the new ones are not as good as the old ones. >> let me ask you, how would you vote on a bill to repeal the affordable care at? a matter ofd it is stan

is the cbo says that persuasively. standiford: another government intrusion into the free market to set the floor on wages. wages are private contract between the employer and employee. employers should be allowed to bargain that they are willing to pay and the price that they're willing to work for. minimum-wage simply pushes people out that don't have the skills to get the lowest paid jobs. the implication that people try to support a family on minimum-wage it is almost never the case. the vast majority of people on minimum wage is the middle-class young people starting out working minimum-wage jobs through high-school and early college and almost never affects those people that try to support a family on this and come to set arbitrary barriers to keep kids from getting the skills they need to move up the ladder is one more example of the feel-good lot where the government steps in and today's -- raise the minimum wage but if that had a positive effect at 15 or $20 an hour and why we wouldn't do that? it should be ob

i think the cbo takes that into account. they know where the money is going and they say more people are going to be unemployed. they're saying it's wor ae's wor the folks that get more money. >> how could you not know what's going to lap. this is economics 101. small businesses are not prepared. they don't know what they're going to have to pay. one day you're going to say, by the way, now what you pay your employee sz 20% to 30% higher. you don't know if that will hurt business? of course it will. what do you do five orr ten years from now when you say let's raise it to $12.50 or $15. let's fix this. no one is offering to fix this because they love it being a problem. >> jonas, in some states it seems like a political trick. illinois has a question on the ballot about minimum wage. they're just looking for an opinion. it doesn't do anything. if you vote to raise the minimum wage, they're like, that's nice, that's your opinion. we're not doing anything about it. >> i'm a little more worried when they start doing something.

ose: no way around you voted to cut $716 billion from medicare the cbo cbo, congressional budget officefor congress where you work said this bill cuts $716 billion for medicare funding. i don't understand why you cannot say why you stripped that funding. 10 times my parents are your parents or neighbors will all be thrown or who knows where they will be thrown teeeighteen we need to move onto the next question. bera: with your three terms in congress where do to stand up to crosstree bankers? ose: first was when the wall street bankers decided they wanted to hide behind the campaign finance laws and not disclose who was giving money. was a co-sponsor of making fine gold that allowed americans to know where the money comes from. bear with me. on contrast congressman bera has made a career to take money from wall street and in return granting the exemption with the affordable care act. the other items that i stood up to wall street have to do with their desire as special treatment and tax laws and provisions for the unique enterprises. something you have routinely and regularly voted to d

the congressional budget office or cbo, estimating the difference between how much the u.s.and how much it spent, it is around $486 billion. and that's the lowest since 2008. the cbo says spending was up nearly 1.5%, while revenue was up nearly 9%, mostly driven by higher income and payroll taxes. >>> u.s. regulators say that at&t has now agreed to pay more than a million bucks to settle so-called cramming allegations. you've heard of cramming before. so, at&t was accused of illegally billing customers for services that they never requested, such as daily horoscopes or trivia. all this stuff shows up on people's bills, and if you don't look at your bill, then you don't know it's there. the ftc says 40% of customers did see these charges on their bill. they complained about them. we're told the company will pay $80 million to refund those customers, $20 million in fees and penalties to all 50 states, plus a $5 million fine to the fcc. >>> as we change gears now, should people who are terminally ill have the right to die on their own terms? listen to this, because there's a wo

you can't read one line of the cbo report. you have to read it in full context and what senator mcconnell's resume shows, the only person -- it's not our ers. the only person washington -- in washington who has been benefiting is senator mcconnell. we mentioned this before that atstarted our conversation the university of kentucky and the institute for world journalism enough in teaching a course this semester about you. one of their simons was to write out a question. this is from anthony pendleton, a junior from lexington. debt has had a record high. experts say student loan is that -- student loan debt -- what should be done to fix this problem? >> we just passed a new student loan bill on a bipartisan basis in 2013 that stabilizes the loan rates. the reason this young man has this problem is because the economy is so poor. we are in a situation here where young people get out of school having gone into serious debt and then can't find work. unless we get this economy going, this problem is going to persist. bill, aent supp

on the cbo report of $716 billion, that is spread out over 10 years. and $400 billion, according to the research i read, is due to changes in annual updates on fee-for-service payments to hospitals and other services like home health. they are a value-based reference in payment to medicare. >> that is washington talk for a cut. i have had 70 hospital town hall meetings over the last two years. our hospitals are being rim racked by these reductions. these are the people who take care of the elderly, and they are being rim racked by the obamacare medicare reimbursement reductions. i was in a couple of meetings with the home health care organization in the last couple of weeks. they are not going to be able to provide as many services because of these cuts. so let's make sure we understand what we are talking about. the 700 billion dollar rate on medicare, a program for the elderly, in order to provide subsidies for people who are not old and not poor enough to be on medicaid, that bill is a huge mistake. >> one other point on job loss -- didn't the cbo r

raises costs for people who are on a tight budget so i am concerned from that point of view and the cbo late out of those arguments persuasively. >> moderator: debbie standiford. standiford: this is another example of government intrusion into the free-market, setting arbitrary floors on wages. wages are a private contract between an employer and an employee and employees and employers should be allowed to bargain for the prices they are willing to pay and what they're willing to work for. what a floor on the minimum wage does is push people out that don't have the skills to get the lowest paid jobs. the implication is always that people are trying to support a family on minimum wage. that is almost never the case. the vast majority of people affected by minimum wage are upper-middle-class young people. those are the people starting out, working minimum-wage jobs through high school and early college so it almost never affects people trying to support a family on this income so to set arbitrary barriers to keep kids from getting the skills they need to move on up the ladder is one more

take, and i know that you recommended looking to identifying the certain consultant to work with the cbos what would you recommend for the city and moving forward and investing this? >> i think right now, the situation at city college is hopefully stabilizing and we are working closely with the city college to insure that we are keeping all of the good policy work that we have done over the past three years particularly through our bridge to success initiative and which is the initiatives that we the city, received moneys from the gates foundation, to build, linkages between our school district and our higher ed institutions and so they can double the rate of graduation for our african americans and the latin o students and through that process, we are able to bring the counselors from the public schools, and from the city college together and so that they can actually have a conversation about what are the needs of these kids? how do we build the continuum of services from public high school, to city college? and from that, there is a lot of really great things, that came out of those co

number of people covered in the insurance exchange base the end of the 2015 enroll tomt stay on the cbo estimate track. by the way, that's probably a pretty good track for it being sustainable. i think that obamacare has to have about 15 million people in the exchanges for this first to be confident this will be sustainable and they're at about 6.5 million now. now, we don't know exactly what the income breakdown of people is in obamacare. we don't have that data. but the administration a few months ago told us that the average substance p di people receiving was very high. and so if the average subsidy they're receive organize the net premium they're paying is very low, it tells you right there the bias is clearly toward low-income people who need these subsidies, and if they don't get these subsidies wouldn't be able to continue. so you would almost certainly have dramatic disenrollment for the insurance plans at the moment the subsidies ceased. but not -- but wouldn't immediately impact negatively the insurance companies because of the reinsurance provisions. and you might recall tha

we come to grips with those big things that are going to be into the future, again you look at the cbo talking about 2018, the deficit goes up again, then there are real issues but part of the reason there's this expectation of attentions at the moment -- it galvanizes popular movements in a way we haven't seen before. we hold the opportunity in our hand. upward mobility. what happens when the economy's squeezed way we're describing here? >> that's the issue. tough have happening. opportunity culture. >> happening as we said. and it's quite dramatic. it's going to continue. just look at the -- if you took out the number of people that left the labor force and just assume those people in effect are unemploy. it wouldn't be 6.1%. it'll be 12%. they're -- many of them are leaving because they can't get jobs. we have -- >> real wages in middle america have been totally stagnant since 1974. >> in the last half dozen of years they goaf down. that's a lot of money for a lot of people. >> where's the political unity come together to deal with the entitlements? >> a holy complete deadlock. neit

the cbo reports -- >> would it not be a job killer?> it's what he never tells you about his record, the full story. the full story of the cbo report is it would help lift over a million americans out of poverty. the way we actually grow the putle class and hard-working kentuckians back to work is by giving them a living wage. that's what america's about. he has gotten rich while consistently voting to keep kentucky poor, and we can't have a senator like that anymore. >> i can let that stand. she should be given for pinocchio's for that. >> is he not a multimillionaire? >> she knows that's the result of an inheritance that my wife got when her mother passed away, and she has consistently gone around all over the state and suggested that i've somehow enriched myself at public expense. let me tell you, her family has made more money off the government in the last 10 years than i've been paid in salary and all my time in the senate. that is an outrageous suggestion. she knows it's wrong. >> the votes speak for themselves. voting against in

the cbo numbers rely on expectations congress will do what they said they are going to do. i think it is optimistic. i think, yeah, we have a problem. samuelsson is reflecting a great concern. >> the expectations of congress, functions as it is supposed to, are over drown -- >> they have to project what congress is going to do -- >> we have had five years, connective years in which growth has been 2.1 pest. that is the lowest -- 2.1%. that is the lowest since the depression. we are under tremendous economic pressure and political pressure. we will have to have a level of leadership we have not had in a long time. >> spangler was right -- [ talking at the same time ] [ laughter ] >> in this environment mclaughlin is right. i think we need a third party and i think you are our man. the mclaughlin group has its own website and you can watch this program on the web on www.mclaughlin.com. www.mclaughlin.com ballot battle. >> election day, november 4, is not just politicians who will get yea or nay vote. so will ballot initiatives, economic and social issues decided by voters who

he was in office, and every month he would have us bring reports to him, saying how many different cbos placed folks from in-custody facilitis to treatment facilities and other supportive services? and every month at the board meetings i would present the work that kim did and without question, every single month, for four years, kim single-handedly placed more incarcerated individuals into treatment facilities and housing than all of the other agencies combined that worked in the jail. that is not an exaggeration. kim would routinely place five or six more individuals than three or four agencies that worked in the jail combined. she has been a tireless advocate for the schools. on the reentry side and just a test of her character, she said to me a moment ago, there are no bad choices for you guys to make today. that is all i wanted to say. thank you. >> thank you. >> hi. my name is jean yetta johnson for the transgender justice project and i was recently released. i have been out almost two years and getting out of prison and accessing services, having a difficult time, but also being

funding it and they're doing outreach and education to their own constituency so we place them in the cbos to help with the outreach and of course we're around partnering with the immigrant partnering groups and on sanctuary city and immigrant rights. we were asked recently by one of the senate offices to provide information on immigrants and the refugee population in san francisco and i thought it was an odd question coming from them because i assume d they had all the information but they didn't, so you probably know most of the information. over 25% of the country immigrants live in california and over one out of every three san francisco residents is immigrant. there are estimated 30,000 or more undowsmed immigrants in san francisco and while only one in 14 children in san francisco is an immigrant 54% have at least one immigrant parent and 34% are headed by an immigrant. since the refugee act of 1980 we have received hundreds of refugees by san francisco. 80% of the participants in the human agency cash assistance program, rca, are asylees and families are aided by calworks. and final

funding it and they're doing outreach and education to their own constituency so we place them in the cbos to help with the outreach and of course we're around partnering with the immigrant partnering groups and on sanctuary city and immigrant righ

that is a much more realistic way to look at the numbers that >> the updated cbo updated last at $130d the aca now 1.8ion to our debts, so trillion dollars raise taxes, 31 million americans uninsured, it is going to raise the deficit $131 billion. take a look at that senate committee report that >> sanjay, do you have a follow-up? those, are they going to benefit from tax elections at all? >> we need to solve this at the state level. withs are moving forward programs and plans that are unique to that state's needs that think about montana and a resident in winnock might be something different than someone in bozeman. we need a state-focused solution. look at what the v.a. did when it took over the health care system. look at indian health services. when the federal government takes over a system it becomes expensive and the poor, disabled , and elderly are not getting the care they need. >> amanda, your follow-up. >> i would ask anyone who voted to try to repeal the aca to explain that to my mom who hasn't had health insurance in 31 years but now has access. or explain that to my frien

the cbo projected by 2016 that the deficit will again rise unless there is a broader budget deal thatitle months. that is the warning to come in that isnistration -- the one to come. moment, they will take this short-term improvement as a positive sign. we need to get our viewers to the market action -- will this play a role in the midterm elections? >> it can't hurt democrats. the problem for them is it so close to election day and by and large, the public perception is that republicans are doing a better job in the deficit. there is a gallup poll that came up that showed this issue is extremely important to 73% of respondents if they gave republicans a 20 point edges to who would be better in dealing with this issue going forward. the administration has a challenge to sell this message that they have been responsible on the deficit especially when we've got about 20 days until election day. >> thank you for the update from the white house. we will take a look at the markets -- u.s. stocks and european stocks and treasuries -- treasuries are extraordinary with the swings we have seen

know that both the tender loin and the southern station has been doing a great job working with the cbo and hot team and one thing that i want to impress upon our residents is that we need more shelter beds, we have 1600 for the 6,000 people in the homeless count and one thing that is positive i have to say and just as a plug for the city that we are one city ha the homeless has not gone up, any other major city the homeless population continues to grow and ours has remained the same at 6,000 which is frustrating, but, also, we have housed 10,000 over the last ten years and it is just that the symptoms of homelessness and whether it is domestic violence and poverty and lack of education and military, and veterans that are coming out of the wars and they are adding to the homeless roles and we need to continue to do that work but we need more beds throughout staoet if the city, if we don't have the places for the officers to take to that are living on the streets they are just shuffling people from one intersection to the other and we are experiencing that in our district as well. as con

isthe same time, the cbo see it is a very difficult task they have to do, but we all want the same thing. >> there seems to be this great balancing act. we have had this explosion in debt since 2008. to they have the willingness to pull back? do they have the stomach to go forward with those kinds of reforms? >> they do want to moderate pace of acceleration. we will concede -- we will continue to see the slightly confusing picture. it is not a big difference. overallimportant is the trajectory. time and it is a very difficult position. i think we can see at the local , which is where the real focus of concern has been, we have seen increased control of the budget. that will hold back on their ability to borrow and invest. over time, that will prove more stable. they have to sort out the existing debt levels. >> for someone that overseas all of these assets, do i pull back on the luxury good makers exposed to the chinese theme right now? seen the worste of it as far as the luxury goods are concerned. the corruption crackdown, we have seen the highest profile officials being removed. it wi

i am concerned so i think the cbo base this out persuasively. standiford: this is another example of government intrusion of the free market trying to set arbitrary floors. wages are a private contract with an employer and employee. employees and employers should bargain for the prices that they are willing to pay and so it just pushes people out there don't have the skills to get the lowest paid jobs. the application is people try to support a family on minimum wages and it is almost never the case. the vast majority that are affected by minimum wage are upper middle-class. they are starting now working with minimum-wage jobs through high school and early college. it almost never affects those people that are trying to support a family on this and tom. >> but them kidding this kills they need it is one more example of the feel-good lot where government steps in and it feels good and pay people more. but with raising the minimum wage had a positive effect and they read raise it at 20 or $15 an hour. at a certain point so it should be obvious why

the cbo says there are $200 billion per year wasted in duplications. at hundred billion dollars per year. -- $200 billion per year. cut the spending. >> would there be any scenario in which you would also support raising the debt ceiling? >> i vote for cut spending. he thinks we should spend more. that is the fundamental difference. >> you have one minute for your response. >> i will tell you what the fundamental difference is between us. being fiscally responsible lowering our deficit and balancing the budget. but not on the backs of our seniors and middle class. the budget is a statement of our values. i will stand with our veterans and our middle class. opponent believes in giving tax breaks to multimillionaire corporations who shifted jobs overseas. he wants to balance the budget on the backs of our middle class and seniors, especially by supporting a plan that would end medicare as we know it and make seniors pay thousands of dollars more. >> now you are making stuff up. you took $700 million out of medicare. i don't know what you are referring to

but the cbo said that raising the minimum wage would put half a million jobs at risk. but not all business leaders agree. like frank napp jr. >> if one or two people find themselves for some reason lose a job because of this, they'll be a lot more who will get the job and they will--those who are let go will find other jobs because there will be more hiring to meet the demand that raising the minimum wage will create. >> his group backs raising the minimum wage in south carolina. a red state generally seen as hostile to big government telling business owners what to do. but he may be on something. polling may turn on candidate support for boosting the minimum wage. raising the federal minimum wage is an issue that really resonates with voters. that's what tom jensen says. he knows a thing about voter attitudes. he is the director of public policy polling, a national polling based in rol raleigh, north carolina. you do polling for democratic and progressive campaigns. >> sure, that's right. >> but that should not affect the outcome because you need to know what people a

even the cbo tells us the equivalent 2.5 million people while work because of the disincentives to work obamacare so you have taxes, you have regulations, you have the fact that the death of $17 trillion in growing and no reduction in site coming and i think you have a political modus operandi which doesn't seek to bridge differences that seeks to sort of basically polarized and intimidate and divide people based upon what divides them and pray on the emotions of fears and anxieties versus an aspirational political system that speaks to people with ideas that unifies people based on aspirations and based on opportunity. ronald reagan did it very well in the 1980s. this can be done again but i do believe it's the philosophy of governing that employed and a third obama term which ruby clinton or whoever that would keep these things going and this philosophy and the -- that flows flows from that we need to delegate our money and power and decision-making to bureaucracies to run our lives effectively to macromanage society and micromanage the economy. it doesn't work. the whole idea of this

but the cbo said raising the minimum wage would also put half a million dollars million jobs in jeopardyy late 2016 as employers let workers go to save on costs. opponents of the wage increase have seized on their number but not all business leaders agree. like frank knapp junior president of the small business chamber of commerce. >> if one or two people find themselves, that they for some reason lose a job because of this, and those who are let go will find other jobs because there will be more hiring to meet the demand that laying the minimum wage will create. >> his group backs raising the minimum wage, a red state generally seen as hostile to big government telling business owners what to do you, but he may be on to something. polling in those four tight senate races could turn on candidate support for boosting the minimum wage. ali velshi, al jazeera. >> for more political coverage, join david shuster for power politics coming up at 5:30 eastern today. a global decline in snoekers has meant dwindling profits for american's tobacco farmers. john hendron reports from the tobacco fiel

real quick, the cbo, the vices it measures fear complains. four times over the last two years it's hit above 20. every single time it's done that it's marked the bottom of market. today we hit 2206. one mow mo later a gain of seftsdz percent. charles: a lot of people emailed me and tweeted me. already, dee dee. you're like the people person. you're the strategist. you understand people. (?) we talked about all the things impacting the stock market. those are the things that influenced mainstream. what do you think is the biggest gnawing at america. >> to say it's not affecting americans is dead wrong. everybody is worried about ebola. they're worried about isis. they're worried about an attack on america. people are in panic mode. that transfers to the stock market. charles: my son (?) jfk today. if ebola comes through america. the odds in vegas, they'll come through jfk i i thought about putting a hazmat on this kid on the way out. hillary, what do you think? >> i think the volatility indexsy real indicator. charles: what is it indicating? w