now we are bringing them for their children in their children's children. why would we try to stop this? you say that there are so many issues about traffic, the train, the smell. all these years, what did you guys do? why are you waiting until now to bring this to the community? where have these issues been for these past years? supervisor cohen: thank you. >> why is it now an issue as we try to bring help to this community? you talk about this and that, but what are you doing for the community? for the children? supervisor cohen: thank you. >> i live in south san francisco. i bring my children here. why? i trust the doctors. supervisor cohen: thank you. >> i highly recommend that you support this. if you really care about the future of this community, the children, please support what it is that we are doing. supervisor cohen: thank you. [applause] >> my name is [unintelligible] chandler. i am also a community activist. this is a major concern to me. it was brought to my attention by [unintelligible] jackson, who has been a civil rights leader in my commu

and these children are like children who are imprisoned throughout the country.the vast majority of them have committed very low level offenses, and that's a very disturbing fact when you think about the fact that we spend millions of dollars in praising children for very, very minor offenses. so what's even more disturbing is the violence and the abuse and the trauma that these children often experience when they're behind bars. there's no dollar amount you can put on the number of young lives that have been destroyed by violence experienced insider juvenile justice system. i'd like to share with you just a few stories of some children i have worked with. in may 2007, a 16 year girl was left alone with a member was under investigation for sex abuse in another resident in that facility. she was brutally sexually abused, and that same staff member went on to abuse three other girls before he was finally removed from his position. in that same facility, seven girls were shackled for over a month because they were in an alleged runaway threat. in october 2009, a det

welfare and children's issues? >> and it's all about deteriorating. though the alarming problem now. once you come back to the 2008 level we will get paid. i'm a little more pessimistic because it's got a permanent tax systems for revenue growth is not going to be very good. we continue to have $3 trillion of unfunded liabilities in detention area and we've got sort of health reform and a huge increase in medicaid. so i think that there is a lot of interest, particularly on the early childhood standpoint. but really over the last 70 years, i've been looking at $150 billion that has to be filled in because most of them have balanced budget requirements. so i think it is a priority. as you are aware, others have said. little public money goes in those first five years. to the extent there's any system out there for early childhood is a very fragmented system with volunteers in smaller groups. i suppose to states doing it. it's hard to find the money to put it down where it needs to be. money is level taffeta state an

you think by writing books for children you are sending children the message that reading is important? >> very much so. yes. >> stephen: let's talk about kids. i don't trust them. >> is that true? >> stephen: their biding their time until we're gone and they get our stuff. they take our place. it's an interesting point of view. >> stephen: thank you. >> but not interesting to me particularly. there's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. it's quite amazing. >> stephen: what do you mean the complexity of children? they have it easy. they get driven every place. we feed them, dress them. newt gingrich said it: children don't have a work ethic. >> newt gingrich is an idiot. i'll give him that. >> stephen: he's an historian. >> yes, but there's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him. i can't take him seriously. >> stephen: less agree to disagree. >> sure. >> stephen: why wroit for children. >> i don't write for children. >> stephen: you don't? >> no, i write and somebody says that's for children. i didn't set out to make childr

and these are children no different than our own children.fact, it's precisely the idea that another child is not a human being like me that allows these children to be pimped, to be exploited and to be abused. it's that same idea that allows maybe the rest of us to maybe close our eyes to it. i can understand closing your eyes to something you can't change. this is something americans can have a positive effect on. and we started to see the beginning of that. >> the crackdown on criminals is just one part of what's changed in cambodia. you're about to meet a remarkable american family who gave up nearly everything to come here to help the children. you sold your house? >> sold our house. >> and we'll take you on an extraordinary visit to see some of the girls rescued five years ago. >> with the right amount of heart and effort, you can make a difference in someone's life. >> changing the world one child at a time. when "children for sale" continues. [ tires squeal ] an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, avai

most of the children, homeless children are recognized by the department of education. they do not meet the standards and this is what has happened with some of the children that were here today. and they don't qualify. they don't meet the requirements, they don't qualify for the homeless housing and supportive services and we really have to make this change. i'm happy to see that you are really bringing this up and talking about it and doing it, but i think that it really has to have a definition that is the same as the ever agency that is the same as the department of education that we are going to get all of this together and that is why we have h.r. 32 as well as doing some other things. and i don't think that the kids on the panel or most of the homeless kids recognize as harmless as i said by the department of education should be considered at risk. the kids are homeless. that is a problem and a challenge and so hud needs to recognize this fact and i think congress and every federal agency needs to work together to help these homeless kids and i would hope we coul

tavis: asking this question -- since children don't have a voice, there is the children's defense funde kids don't have the kind of voice of persons over 18 who can vote. who is on the front lines of the fight? >> it has to be all of us. we have to make it known to our elected officials. we have been in our network, calling on the gang of six. the committee of 12. calling on the president. this is unacceptable. that we allow 15-18% of the citizens to live in poverty. they don't have good education. they don't have good food to eat. it is around the same group of people. >> what kind of response are you getting? >> it is mixed. some people are really in our camp, fighting hard for us. the majority are not concerned about it. we need to get the majority of people in congress concerned about this issue. tavis: these 12 members of congress who have t o figure out the deficit reduction, whahow scared are you of what may happen to children and babies? >> i am concerned. there is an idea that we just nutrition nutriciosion programs. food stamps provide $350 a month. a 1% cut cuts $75 out of t

they are still your children. you have the responsibility of making sure, because they are your children, that they are provided for in every way as a child, whether there -- it is their food or their transportation, whatever is, and education is certainly a big part of it. if you educate your children from the moment there wonder you teach them their alphabet and everything. and it does not stop because you had someone helping you. you need to be, i think, reminded as we were that if parents do not engage, then you are turning of your child to be raised by people who may or may not share your values, who may or may not do what you want and believe it is in the best interest of your children, or why would you do that? other than the fact that you have to because you have a choice. and this is the frustration of a lot of parents in america today, that they do not feel like they have any choice, that their stock -- that they are stuck. we have an education system that focuses in on the education system. but enough f

i have done many interviews of abused children. they are often so profoundly heartbreakingly damaged, this situation, the child advocacy center, is the best that we can do. the very best to make sure that they receive the services that they need. to make sure that they are safe and that they can go on with their lives, so they can heal physically, emotionally, and psychologically from this trauma. we wish they would support us. >> thank you. -- supervisor cohen: thank you. next we have [read names] >> i am danielle. i am an active community member there. i am currently working with their to dream through the bayview opera house. i have taught after-school programs at george washington carver. i am currently a student at charles. i am also a client of the san francisco child abuse prevention center at all,. -- center cloctalk line. and, um -- i have been there for the last five years. i am a single parent. my son is 7 years old. supervisor wiener: can i just say that talk line is so great and it is a wonderful service to the communi

in all my 35 years, especially in the last 15 years, i have fought for our children off.ave heard some stickers, so- called policy people, come here and make statements, but i have never seen them in the community. i have seen one doctor who has recently come, they be in the last three or four years, attending some of our town hall meetings, but she did not support us against glenarden -- lennar, who has been instrumental in killing our children slowly and instrumental in killing our elders. so if somebody wants to put in the center, and somebody wants to do something like this, there are the areas. not one meeting was held in the public. and when i spoke here on monday and some people jump on me, that igo

i am concerned about parents walking children. if there is anything that you can do about the parking situation and making sure that parents holding on to the hands of children are not walking and putting themselves in harm's way, i would appreciate that. supervisor cohen: ok. [reads names] and if there are any other members of the public that would like to speak, just line up. >> hello. my name is allison francis. i am a mother of three children who attend the bayview child center. i was actually there today for my four and half year-old's well visit. i think that this is very important. my children have received a lot of services there. my husband was actually involved in a horrible accident. we were going through a horrible eviction. my children and i were able to receive counseling services, which were free to last. a program through ucsx. i was able to go there with my child in able to attend class is, parent education class is, amongst other things. and i have moved to san the tail. -- san mateo. i come to bayview all of the

i would never put a situation of children smelling that disgusting smell. i do not have children in my building. it is purely adults, a construction company. but it is a serious concern. that toxic smell. and of course, the parking, as everybody is in discussing here. there is none. and the cars flying by go anywhere from 50 to 80 miles per hour, sometimes with police behind them. it is a pretty dangerous location. thank you. supervisor cohen: thank you. did you fill out a speaker card? the court can give you one. cynthia, neo, linda, and danielle. cynthia williams, you are up.

that means that all children should be in school.f we have been trying to use that argument to make sure because the government is saying that all children should be in school and they can look and see that children are not in school but out in the field. so you need to do something to get them back in. but there has to be a ban on child labor, a complete ban. >> should western clothing companies do more to crack down on this? >> absolutely. i think it is important. the government has to have a lot and then implement the law, which would also be implemented. but companies need to be much more stringent. as the report shows, some at the factory level, it is fine. it seems to be much better. but it goes right down the supply chain. they need to make sure and we have worked with some who are very keen to have a good strong child labor code of conduct. just like we'd check the quality control right down to the bottom and they will not take anything that has a bottom missing. they must check down the supply chain that no children are bein

many were children. >> now thanks to cbn's operation blessing, some of the children have a permanent place to call home. efrem graham has that story. >> singing fills the air at this children's home. it is hard to imagine this happy place sits eight miles from a port-au-prince hospital where parents abandon young children like three-year-old markus. >> they had a room where kids stayed, hospital staff came by. they didn't have a program for them. when the earthquake hit, the hospital needed to face back. these kids have to go. >> operation blessing joined forces with partners in help to build the children a home. >> these kids came from the worst imaginable experience of the hospital to live in this beautiful place. really it is a remarkable transformation. >> children are surrounded by banana trees, pets and a therapeutic pool. also physical therapists working with children living with disabilities. >> it is creole for blessed friends. this is a blessing for little guys like this one and 49 other children. this facility started with one building. >> about the first year we had all t

, the american children. i want you to understand that this work is a priority. we have a whole bunch of things on our plate, but this is a priority. i am grateful to my colleagues in the office of violence against women and the office for their leadership in developing the the most effective efforts including the new defending childhood initiative. today as the 30 members of this task force to gather for the first time, we're launching a new chapter in the work to protect our young people from violence and from harm and insuring that in this country, every child has a safe place to live, to learn, and to grow. this task force is comprised on experts on the issues surrounding children exposed to violence. they represent the legal, medical, research, law- enforcement, and survivor communities. they all share a common passion to the mission that brings us together today. on behalf of the department of justice and the entire administration, i want to thank each of our task force members. thank you for devoting y

bbc news, and jordan. >> children their suffering in children, the international community unable to put pressure on bashar al-assad to stop this violence. now to a part of the world's largest wilderness, which has remained untouched for thousands of years. live underneath the bark to cut. the group of for to scientists is drilling through nearly 2 miles of ice to get to it. david shukman has the details. >> deep in the wilderness of antarctica, one of the most him vicious journeys of discovery is getting underway. this is a delivery of highly specialized equipment. in the bitter cold, everything is a challenge. the plan is to provide a first glimpse of an unexplored world line beneath the ice. it is hard to imagine anything beneath the ice sheet. the dream is to drill through the eyes, 2 miles thick, down to an ancient lake locked away for half a million years. the device will be lowered into it to gather samples. no one knows what they will find. this is the softening device a booby -- the sampling device that will be lowered into the lake. it is in a clean room. there is a chance

children's village is also helping children whose parents simply don't know how to support them. >> we can't grant all the requests. our therapists try to help the children and counsel the parents. if a family has extreme financial difficulties, then we pay their electricity or heating bills. or we contribute toward rent or groceries. >> one of the children taken in for financial reasons lives with this s.o.s. family. the girl's single mother could no longer support her. now a new life is beginning for the 6-year-old. >> of course the children are still worried about their families, when they can return home and whether their mom is ok. the economic crisis is one more problem in the children's lives. i see it every day. the children are irritable and more quarlsome. >> s.o.s. mother ava has to learn how to deal with the new children. she's on her own, like many greeks, in the economic crisis. new and sometimes unconventional solutions are needed. citizens have occupied part of this disused airport in athens. its huge grounds were not being used. now unemployed architects, physicists, s

to regard we have been doing that work, and -- of their children. we have been doing that work, and we ask him to continue. >> good evening. i am the proud principle. i am also proud to serve in a district judge has explicitly developed the following three goals, and to make social justice a reality, and to engage high achieving learners, and to keep our promises to students and families. both improvement data and results support that paul revere is making significant progress towards these goals. our student achievement data is available for your review. i would like to share briefly a few more results from a survey that over 200 of our family is completed recently. 83% of families believed their children atenjoyed attending paul revere. 87% believed teachers have the best intentions in mind when making decisions, and 90% feel students are treated respectfully and valued at paul revere. although we have some concerns we continue to address, i will personally commit to working on improving communication, and aging parents, and working towards meetin

but children are different. they have really bad trauma, a lot, being homeless. >> [speaking foreign language] >> she says that the only thing that we act -- that we ask is for those units to be given to the homeless people. she thinks the city will be looking better with less people on the streets, sleeping in the streets. i think that they deserve to have a place that is decent. >> [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. >> hello, good morning. jennifer from the coalition on homelessness. i think that all of us here today think it is a wonderful thing to see how things have changed over the last several weeks. we went from a situation where we had an action plan laid out by homeless families who had no response from the city to a " in the paper claiming a huge rise -- quote in the paper claiming that this huge rise in homeless families was not a crisis, to what was indeed, as we can agree on now, a crisis. this is a testament to the homeless families standing up with courage, side by side with service provid

with their hand and no. 2 apparently sleeping the children the children were sleeping with the children in the bed. both of which are common actually practice not only in indiana culture but found in western society as well. >>reporter: the couple pain felt here in the bay area. tonight the behind you american foundation is taking action. group launched this on line petition to put pressure on the norwegian government to return the children to their parents. >> we have had 4 44 signatures. >>reporter: norway officials meantime insist the 1 and 3-year-old were being raised inappropriately. >> they told to me why are you sleeping with your children in the same bed. this is also cull tawrl issue. >> nationwide with you not see children removed because they were being fed with hands or because they were co-sleeping with their parents. >>reporter: andrew cain is a chilled welfare attorney. he calls norway decision surprising and he questions norway past tweeltion children. >> they were cited by the united nations in 2005 for concerns about their resorting to foster care too quickly. >>report

they talk about "children." i understand we have a children that need to educate all children.ut we have businesses in america, large ones, that provide services to millions, probably more people than the education system those children. yet, they have a motto in every business -- who comes first? the customer. it is not true in the education system in the country. i of the system comes first, employees come first, and it is certainly not the parents did. it is certainly not the parents and what we can do to work with parents so they can get, for their children, what they believe their children need to be successful. not as a society necessarily sees successful. because you know what -- let's look at no child left behind. yes, i know i voted for but i would repeal of i have the chance, which i hope to if i get elected president. [applause] but society said what is really important is academics. what is really important is academic accomplishment. but what if you are a parent who believes that, yes, academics are important but i want my child to be raised with a deep, rich state

. >> syria accused of targeting children. we have a special report. the prime minister of pakistan under pressure after the supreme court orders him to face charges of contempt. it is can i am in singapore. >> it is 2:00 a.m. in london. -- it is 10:00 a.m. in singapore. >> and italian coast guard official has said the number of people still missing after friday's cruise ship disaster off the coast of tuscany stands at 29, almost double the previous estimate. the owners of the costa concordia have accused the captain of making an unauthorized deviation in course. there are ongoing concerns about possible environmental damage. this report is from the island of giglio. >> as the wind whipped up the waves, the vast bulk of the costa concordia began to shift in the shallow waters. the abandoned rescue efforts for several hours, too dangerous to continue. after the see calmed --s ea calmed, the rescuers were back aboard. there are still hoping to find survivors, but no more likely they will be bringing out the dead. it is the divers who have the most danger

our children have gotten sick in the shelters. our children had to be hospitalized. i am making a dying plea and also asking the mayor to personally come down to the ocean shelter at 211 13th and mission and join me and my family and stay with us for one night so that he can understand the seriousness that we are experiencing. [applause] >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sarah short. i am really happy to hear that 31 housing units will be offered to homeless families. i am really, really angry and sad that it took a press conference, a rally, a hearing to make that happen. the city should be aware, they should be tracking the

and - doesn't mean the children are leaving the have fewer children than they used to. those states are mostly in the middle east. degette increasing numbers of children that are in the south and southwest, like texas, florida, georgia, north carolina, arizona, nevada. many of those states have both lower spending and taxes that make it hard for them to expand to meet the needs of their increases in a number of kids and shift in the kind of needs those children have for the english language learners so that as a challenge to meeting our future needs. the final point i want to make from my essay is that i think that there are steps that can help us do better although they face an enormous number of obstacles. i make four suggestions in the peace, and i sure that we will talk about those and many others. the first is that we increase the share of education the federal not thinking about 7%, there's lots of practical difficulties in the way that which we can talk about more, but it's also a point that bob made. second, that we add investments in the youngest children becau

the children were so petrified they couldn't cry. they could only remain silent. >> reporter: fortunately, all of these students survived the tragedy but 80% of them lost their homes. despite the passage -- many children are worried about their future and not smart as they used to. >> translator: there is is a vague sense of anxiety. i want to find something that will help the kids feel safer and give them hope for the future. >> reporter: his colleagues asked teachers about how they dealt with the children after the tsunami. >> transtor: how did you deal with children who were traumatized by the tsunami? >> translator: i never forced them to study. >> i asked the children to read poems, to play games or to dance. after that i saw an immediate change in their spirits. >> reporter: the teachers went to the facility for children who were all found by tsunami or who are living away from their parents for economic reasons. japanese teachers spoke about how they overcame the emotional trauma. about 40 children live at the facility. this 1

but i also take my children there. as a staff member at the bayview child health center, every day i see positive things that the bayview child health center is providing for this community. every day i hear the stories from the parents and children. recently, i had patients come in, their car broke down and they were fortunate that they were able to be seen on that same day and not have to go to the emergency room which is across town for them and sit there for hours. i found just so much privilege to be able to serve this community. they are grateful for the things we can provide for them. no amount of money can replace that. to see their faces when they come in and they are so happy that there is a doctor that listens to them. there is a doctor that sits there and listened to every concerned, not just from their illnesses but also what is going on at home. what might cause this child's to feel that way. this health center has gone far beyond what any pediatric clinic would do for these kids and i am so thankful to b

they're the reason i have my children. >> the hospital says all three children have been released from hospital and are back at home tonight. >> just a remarkable, remarkable story. so touching. >>> let's turn things over to jeff and talk about the next couple of days. it's going to get warmer for us. >> i know. despite the current numbers out here, which are pretty cold, we're going to see a good increase out here, jessica and janel janelle. we could see record-setting warmth. 46 in santa rosa. 43 in livermore. and we're running about five to seven degrees colder than what we had this time last night. for tomorrow morning, widespread 40s. areas of 30s. patchy fog for the areas that clear out completely. and tomorrow, that warmer day, 5 degrees to 10 degrees above average. and potential of 70-degree weather, coming in my seven-day forecast. isolated showers to the south of monterey. for us, we're going to stay dry tonight. we have mid and high-level cloud cover. but no moisture with that. as we zoom out, what you're going to find is something that looks promising. a ton of moisture out

of children in the u.s.ived in poverty in 2010 and department of education identified nearly 900 or 8000 homeless students during the 2009, 2010 school year, an 18% increase since 2007, 2008 school year. most all federal agencies that metaprograms to address the needs of children and family is different definitions determine eligibility. definitions range from people living in emergency or transitional shelters or on the street to those living with others because of economic hardship or living in motels or campgrounds because they lack other adequate accommodations. my statement today is based on gds chain 2010 report on differences in the federal definitions of homelessness and other factors that impact effectiveness of programs serving persons experiencing homeless guys. and that report, we found the definitional difference is that those challenges to providing services for persons experiencing homelessness, including children and youth. in particular, children and youth in certain precarious situation suc

the number of children lives slave to. ray chambers is clearly not the type to be imported by a temporary setback so i am eager to find out tonight how the campaign is doing even though it is nine months after his end of 2010 deadline. the new york times, a paper that some of you will know i like to site as often as i can shows as the reviewer of alex's book brian borough, vanity fair financial journalist who has gained fame over the years by chronicling wall street miscreants and misdeeds in books like barbarians at the gate and the movies like wall street:money never sleeps. here is what this frisky critic of wall street had to say in the new york times sunday book review on august 11th about the ray chambers campaign and the account of it written by alex perry, quote, corporate chieftains tend to have an overarching faith in the curative powers of modern management. incentivizing, metrics, accountability. the whole shebang. people like ross perot and mitt romney have sought to introduce this thinking in government circl

and somebody says "that's for children." didn't set out to make children happy. >> stephen: and now the story bookending of "grim colberty tales" with maurice sendak. what do you think of the current state of children's literature? >> abysmal. >> stephen: there's so much of it, though. >> that's what makes it abysmal. >> stephen: let's talk about some of your competition. give me your reviews. "green eggs and ham." >> good. >> stephen: green eggs and ham" good. >> everything by seuss is good. >> stephen: really. >> yes. >> stephen: give a mouth a cookie." >> mmeh. >> stephen: you shouldn't give a mouse a cookie. >> you should open the door saying "get the hell out of my house." >> stephen: curious george? >> great. >> stephen: i don't believe in monkeys in the house either. >> you don't like it? >> stephen: no, they throw their feces. the monkey will bite your face off. >> they won't do that. >> stephen: he could have at any moment. have i changed your mind on "curious george?" >> stephen:. >> . >> stephen: so you're in favo

with their hand and no. 2 apparently sleeping the children the children were sleeping with the children in the bed. both of which are common actually practice not only in indiana culture but found in western society as well. >>reporter: the couple pain felt here in the bay area. tonight the behind you american foundation is taking action. group launched this on line petition to put pressure on the norwegian government to return the children to their parents. >> we have had 4 44 signatures. >>reporter: norway officials meantime insist the 1 and 3-year-old were being raised inappropriately. >> they told to me why are you sleeping with your children in the same bed. this is also cull tawrl issue. >> nationwide with you not see children removed because they were being fed with hands or because they were co-sleeping with their parents. >>reporter: andrew cain is a chilled welfare attorney. he calls norway decision surprising and he questions norway past tweeltion children. >> they were cited by the united nations in 2005 for concerns about their resorting to foster care too quickly. >>report

. >> translator: the children were lively at all the schools we visited. i was impressed seeing their smiles. i've been seeing students who smile very little despite their seemingly calm attitude. i want our kids to become like these. >> reporter: nakasato says he has -- with the children, with the people who survived the tsunami in banda aceh. he says it's not about employing a special method, but with teachers always being there to support the children. in other words, doing what teachers are meant to do. daisuke, nhk world, banda aceh, indonesia. >>> let's look at the latest in sumo. >>> happy new year, and it's a happy start to the new year's sumo tournament. it's day 3, and time to highlight some of the action. rank and file okay nami is yet to open his 2012 account. >>> he's making his return to the top ranks, but looked out of his element. he seems to have the expectations of many sumo fans in his debut tourney as aosecci. he hits and shifts, attacks with his left hand, straight over the edge. the new osecci looks large and in charge. new com subi w

the border lines are a refuge for brutalize children. the 7-year-old twins were fleeing with their parents when they say soldiers fired at them. >> [speaking a foreign language] >> mohamad was struck in the knee. the violence is relentless. in a hospital, balloons to cheer a boy who has lost his leg. we cannot identify this 8-year- old for fear it against reprisals. his father told me a tank shell was fired at their home. the family was trapped there for 15 days, unable to get to hospital until they made the dangerous journey to lebanon. across the border, the syrian government blamed the armed rebels for the attack. it denies targeting children and says syria was a victim of a foreign plot. in every war, children become casualties, often caught in the crossfire of adult conflict. but what happened in syria is very different. from evidence gathered from the people we've spoken to over the past month, it is clear children are being deliberately targeted. it is happening in regime prisons, where the u.n. reports regular violations of child

raising student achievement begins before children enter kindergarten. now, i have heard this message from hundreds of teachers. children receiving quality early care and education are more likely to be successful in school and in life. and investments that promise high yields get my attention, and in the realm of public policy there is no higher yield investment than this one. so last spring, we joined together to make some of the most significant investments in early child education in our state's history. and as it turns out, those investments are paying dividends sooner than we expected. the judges of the national race to the top early learning challenge noted our commitment and they rewarded us with significant additional federal funds. now, here's our plan. first, the professionals who care for our children will have the proper training. second, the early child care facilities where our children spend their days will have the best teaching and learning tools. third, the successes and challenges of centers will be closely monitored to ensure continu

it's for all children who transfer, but our children move so often it was really an effort to protect them. as brad was saying, employment for military spouses is a particular interest and it falls into my portfolio. we know the financial stability of the family often hinges on the spouse's income, too, and we know that our spouses have an unemployment rate of 26% compared to their civilian counter parts and we know they're under employed by about 25%. and we know that they're more highly educated. 24% of our spouses have bachelor's degrees. so we have a program called the military spouse employment partnership, which it is, again, an effort to connect employers to a really great asset in their communities, and that's military spouses. and even though they're mobile, they have the leadership, t adaptability and just like their service members. excellent source of employment. dr. biden launched this. we've hired over 13,000 spouses in jobs with 100 companies that are partnered with us to provide those opportunities for our spouses. so, again, our goal is to increase the numbers of busi