we have thanks to courageous people like debbie smith for whom we have named the debbie smith act as well as great bipartisan cooperation here in the senate, we have provided funding for testing of rape kits at the state and local level which has been supplemented by the texas legislature and other state legislatures. in houston, though, a few years ago our mayor felt so strongly about this, they took this on as a citywide project with incredible results. they found a number of hits of previously unsolved crimes. and they were able to, i think, bring peace of mind to a lot of people who had been living under a cloud of unsolved crime when they processed these unprocessed rape kits. nationally the problem is still big with as many as 175,000 rape kits that still haven't been analyzed. this is something we need to be able to continue to attack. down from 400,000 at one point was the estimate, down to 175,000 but still unacceptable. victims of sexual assault can't afford to wait and the funding is not -- for funding that is easier to come by. they need their stories to be heard and the

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. >> hi, this is debbie smith, and i'm having trouble with my roommate. it might be the dad. isn't that stupid. parents are doing the schoolwork for the kid. experts say mounting cost of tuition makes parents feel entitled to be hands on. >> i want to get my money's worth. >> a hundred thousand dollars on brown university, i'll take that quiz for you and make sure you pass it. >> that is how they pass their way through, you know. >> issue also is with today's technology you can find out the numbers for deans and coaches. he will mail. and old days back when i went to college you could go to college and you had to call on the pay phone down the hall. we didn't even have cell phones. now you have a problem you put it on facebook, twitter, your parents see it. let me help fix your problem. they are in your life because communication never end. where as before you went out, figured it out. >> i have to admit, would i sometimes try to intervene with my children, if they were having a hard time. i wow go talk to the teacher you didn't take tests for them >> me, no. >> what do you m

debbie abrahams, labour's shadow secretary of state for work & pensions. and edward boyd, managing director of centre for socialjustice, and a former advisor to iain duncan smithor coming in. can we get a bit detailed, because it is quite interesting. let's start with this seven—day period. you apply and nothing happens for seven days. it should go. we have been clear that at least a week should be removed. the government said they wanted to have a system that replicated real life in terms of work and waiting for a month before you got your first support, but this is more than that in six weeks. this... this is the sum of the six weeks and seven days. what was the thinking? when we originally designed this, there was no seven—day weight. there was no seven—day wait. i will agree on this. i don't think any government of any cover is thankful reforming welfare. labour trying to bring in tax credits in 2003, or this government with universal credit, one thing everyone is missing is, when this is fully rolled out, the estimate is 300,000 more people will be in work. that was based on 2014 — 15 data. that is disingenuous to say that, ed. 300,000 before, and that da