we have tremendous oral health disparity in san francisco. we have a lack of access to dentistry especially those that will take government subsidized dental insurance. that may change. i know the center for health serves the portola and bayview and there is limited access there. we also know that immigrant populations in particular, asian and latino immigrant children also suffer much higher rates of dental carries or cavities. so being able to quantified the impact of sugar ary drinks on children's oral health will help us get a better picture of broad impact of sugary drinks. the research shows us that sugary drinks are one of the greatest contributors to children's cavities what we call dental carries. >> thank you very much. i skipped over christina gupta who is senior health planner from the department of public health. >> thank you supervisors. so, i just wanted to give you a little bit of background this afternoon about why the public health field has been looking at sugary drinks as an issue. i wanted to start talking about what happ

i also want to say that disparities that christina gupta are bringing awareness to our very critical areas and the maps showing that it's a citywide problem. but again, the funds as we come up with one proposal for the battle we are looking very carefully at targeting in the most appropriate and effective ways to communities that are the most that face the most health disparities. i also want to say how to report shows how urgent the report is before many of us and hope we move as quickly as possible because there is nothing more as local legislators as the health of our children in our community. i want to mention that the nation of mexico's focus on the environment cause by harmful drink companies and junk food companies is critical but our measure is a very modest one that is focusing on the harm created by that environment and really targeting it to physical activity in and out of school and healthy nutrition and education in our communities. the advertising is going on in the environment that's created by big soda and sugar sweet and beverage companies is overwhelming. it's abou

has great wasn't inequality along with disparity in health and education. these are the facts. >> when the gaps increase in income and power. civilization usually collapses upon itself. what are the detrimental impacts on u.s. quality of life. >> detrimental impacts on quality of life and living? some of the things have been hit on already, which is wealth is a primary indicator of one's well being. education, health, we often think of wealth as an outcome, but it's an input variable into everybody's living standards in virtually every indicator, education, health, political process. if you're confronted with an expensive legal system, no matter what, you pretty much are going to finance that out of wealth if it's an expensive endeavor. >> lori, if the gap continues at this trajectory, does the top get helper, the bottom heavier and the middle class disappear? >> so it's hard to predigit. i mean, economies ebb and flow, right. there's been periods where the gap continues to grow and then you have, sort of the, you know, 1950's and 1960's where things collap

and economic disparities and all that and the more we become an unjust society. the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence. now take a look at some other stories from around the world in iraq officials say gunmen have killed eighteen oil and gas workers and won it seven northeast of baghdad most of the data are reportedly uranium the attack happened as they were digging a trench to stand a pipeline running between iran and iraq sources say the incident took place in a predominantly sunni area. roads have turned into rivers as heavy rain causes chaos across brazil sauza of people have been forced to flee their homes manning out to be rescued from stranded cars and vehicles which were overwhelmed ma has flooded cities holding transportation and damaging hundreds of buildings and these four people have been killed since the extreme weather started to batter brazil. in northern mali a car bomb has killed at least two peacekeepers this as the french army stages a large scale operation against islamist fighters and there ar

>> there's an action called dispar at impact, if something has a disproportional impact on minoritiesthat's because when we're talking about discrimination we're not merely talking about what happened in the present moment but the history that brought -- that brought the present circumstance to be as it is today. not just about what the town is necessarily doing at that moment. >> that disparate impact philosophy so so important. racism can be hard to prove. it can be much harder to deny. this case cannot madid not makee supreme court but ari tells me it probably well and civil rights law has not fared well, a lot of federal protections have been eviscerated by this court. and a lot of civil rights folks are saying whatever we can do to avoid going to scotus will be better for our strategy. >> chief justice john roberts has taken a clear approach to race, efforts -- federal efforts to resolve racial discrimination are actually worse than actual racial discrimination as it exists today. we've seen the consequences of that. where you saw john roberts essentially say, racism today isn't

and economic disparities and all that and the more we become an unjust society. the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence. from oscar the next news bulletin in full just over thirty five minutes time to get our news t.v. set as well on line twenty four seventh's until coming up in the break breaking the set to host. as we all know the holidays are a great time for families to get together and sometimes on the l. call gets flowing they're also a great time for us to argue about everything from politics to religion with the ones we love but if you happen to be an n.s.a. agent and the government has an official list of talking points that way you could win those family arguments for sure yeah that's right the government is now giving n.s.a. agents lists of very corny talking points going to firedoglake so that way they can convince their relatives over the holidays of just how awesome effective and necessary the national security agency truly is despite all those little revelation thinks of mass spying by snowden trust

. >> you have disparity in sentences all of the time. i will tell you, i think this was a gift for this judge. people are calling for her removal. i think she should be removed. this was borderline an illegal sentence, way too legal. the gift the prosecutors are giving her is another shot at getting it right and doing the right thing. mark geragos is never going to admit i said this initially. a creative prosecutor will try to right this wrong. the sentence could have been appealed. the prosecutor's office doesn't think that. but now they're trying to find another way to bring this man to justice. the cure for affluenza is prison time. that is what he should get. he is exposed to three years per intoxication call and that is what he should get. >> mark, do you think this is justice or just politics? >> not just politics, but a complete showboat by the prosecution. they have no chance, legally, unless they want to undo years of jurisprudence. all of these actions took place, out of the same act. i hate to use this term. legions of cases,

and economic disparities and all that and the more we become an unjust society. the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence and one last point is that you know the american people have wanted to do something about this we are not ninety percent support but we might have a little i'll just say we've got a political problem that prevents us from fixing this in the way that the american people would like ben do you have a response. well look i totally agree with what jill just said about not normalizing the violence i think that's a very important point but look when we talk about politicians i would just make this point very quickly that politicians want to jump on the issue of guns because it's a very political issue and as you pointed out in the beginning abbie it's an issue that people are very divided on so you know you get people who are passionately for it and people who are passionately against it at least you're driving passions as a politician but if politicians were sincere about a lot of this you know candidly

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steve, have his policies helped or hurt income disparity? >> it's hurt. this is the most miserable recovery in american history. medium incomes are lower than they were five years ago, the uncertainty of obama care, the horrific tax code, less opportunity for people to rise up. >> rick, he is criticizing something that happened under his watch. >> yeah, here's the problem that i have. first of all, and john will love hearing me say this. i'm not sure that government is a big answer. >> we are all happy to hear you say that. >> i knew you would be. but here's the problem. most people analyze this in terms of do you think obama's policies produce growth, anti-growth. growth is actually not t issue because it only matters if it's shared. if a company that's making $14 billion in profits this year makes $20 billion next year, what's the difference if they don't share the benefit? >> but john, it is kind of the issue because sometimes a rising tide lifts all boats to quote john f. kennedy, rick's favorite president. if you look at what happened under the reaga

markets lead to wealth disparity.glance, rich people getting richer at the expense of others. president obama getting big applause by mocking those of us that they the free market will fix all sorts of problems. >> the market will fix everything, they tell us. if we cut or regulations and taxes. but here's the problem. it doesn't work. it has never worked. >> that applause he got the reason that they regulated the market and try to fix it and make it more fair. laws like obamacare and dodd-frank and we need more laws. >> i would not say more. i am a firm believer in the free market and also capitalism. >> but youdo want more if you want a higher minimum wage, right? >> yes, but don't say more as though i is this distance. we want to makesure that people are able to enjoy capitalism and wh about is a country of laws and not just what people want to do. and so don't make this sound so negave. >> this talks about limited government. leading capitalism happen. >> nobody wants too much. the question is that too much in one

markets lead to wealth disparity.ance, rich people getting richer at the expense of others. president obama getting big applause by mocking those of us that they the free market will fix all sorts of problems. >> the market will fix everything, they tell us. if we cut or regulations and taxes. but here's the problem. it doesn't work. it has never worked. >> that applause he ot the reason that they regulated the to fix it and make it more fair. laws like obamacare and dodd-frank and we need more laws. >> i would not say more. i am a firm believer in the free market and also capitalism. >> but you do want more if you want a higher minimum wage, right? >> yes, but don't say more as though it is this distance. we want to make sure that people are able to enjoy capitalism and what it is all about is a country of laws and not just what people want to do. and so don't make this sound so negative. >> this talks about limited government. leading capitalism happen. >> nobody wants too much. the question is that too much in one

you have disparity in sentences all the time. i'll tell you, i think this was a gift for this judge. people are calling for her removal. i think she should be removed. this is borderline illegal sentence and the gift the prosecutors are giving her is another shot at getting it right, doing the right thing. mark geragos will not admit i said a creative prosecutor is going to try to right this wrong. i think this sentence could be appealed. the prosecutors office doesn't agree with that but they are trying to find a way to bring this man to justice. the cure for affluenza is jail time. >> mark, is this justice or do you think it's politics? >> this is just not politicians but a complete show boat by the prosecution. they have no chance, legally, unless they want to undo 200 years of jurisprudencjurisprude. all of these injuries took place out of the same act. there are legions of cases. you can't go back and prosecute someone. they knew about it. it isn't newly discovered. as far as this idea and let's get some terms straight. firs

that disparity was reduced by the fair sentencing act of 2010, but he came too late for thousands oftes. for more we're joined by jennifer turner, human rights researcher with the american civil liberties union. she wrote about several of the people who sentences were committed in her aclu report, "a living death: life without parole for nonviolent offenses." jennifer, welcome back to democracy now! tell us who got these commutations. >> there are eight people, six are americans were sentenced to die behind ours for nonviolent crack cocaine offenses, four our profile to my report including a young man who sentenced at 20 for his involvement in a drug conspiracy street dealer for only one year when he was 17, served 20 years, half his life, and present. jason hernandez was sentenced to die in prison for five years of street dealing and texas, arrested when he was only 15. they've all been sentenced to unfair mandatory sentences that are excessive because of previous disparities that punish by cocaine offenses, one hundred times more seriously, than powder cocaine. this is huge news. t

he'll be talking about that and weaving that into a larger theme of economic disparity, policies where he wants to take the country and leading to his state of the union speech next week. >> a major u.s. employer has a strong message for potential employees. if you smoke we don't want you. today signa announced it will not hire people who tested positive for tobacco use. here is more on what could be a growing trend. >> cigna is one of the leading insurance companies on the planet. today the company announced it's changing its hiring policy effectively telling future employees you cannot work for us if you smoke, chew tobacco or even use e significant gleets can you engage in lawful activity off duty without your employer staying you don't have a right to do so. >> on tuesday the company announced starting january 1 january 1, 2014, all perspective employees will not only be tested for drug use but nicotine use. >> a nationwide company will have to tailor their policies to the states they're in. there are states where this would be unlawful. >> currently 21 states including texas, ariz

why do you think there's a disparity, especially in drug cases, when it comes to whites and blacks? >> there's a perception that blags are criminals. so the racial disparity in there is looking at it as inherent to black people so each of these people creating crimes individually. >> are you saying the judges do that? >> and public opinion. if we look at why are there differences racially in sentencing, we can say that people think that crack is more addictive or black yuths are likely to sell it. the biggest problem is the fear that there'll be an attack on the large ecommunity. the better that we can deal with this, politicians come after the kids and say we'll be tough on crimes. it's a way for them to say you're going a good job. blacks and whites - the studies show used drugs at the same right. are they not caught committing the crimes. do they have better lawyers. >> we have to rethink what is the face of crack america. is it a person that we see on tv all the time smoking in a ghetto place. is it the mayor of toronto. i think that is the way we need to think of it. the majori

income disparities are getting worse. the average family made just 8% more than than they did in the late 1970s, while america's richest 1% get far richer, with 288 times what most families have already. >> that is a dangerous growing inequality. >> places like san francisco, d.c. and neighboring counties are raising the minimum wage. seattle to $15 an hour. president obama wants the federal minimum raised from 7:25. that's part of the budget battle that is heating back up. in republicans versus democrats. >> when will they start listening to the american people? blamed by this year's government shutdown, many republicans rule that out. >> it's a bad idea. and number two, it's bad politics. >> and a deal is in the works to end across the board sequestration cuts in defense and in social programs said to cut deeper next year. billions would get shifted. and a plan being hatched by house republican paul ryan and senate democrat patty murray, while both sides fight over extending unemployment benefits. the president today wa

so that disparate impact is huge.goes back to what we were talking about earlier, about second-generation discrimination, because the thing that makes it look so innocuous is white and black or the name of any race is not on the face of the guidelines. it flies under the radar of the courts. >> in fact, if you look at the top offenses for which people are imprisoned in this country, drugs as a whole category, at 50%. immigration just over 10%. you have 60% of people being sentenced around drugs and immigration offenses. look how much higher those are than, for example, sex offenses or bribery, extortion, weapons and explosives. you think of those things as dangerous. these are the folks in our prisons. >> it's crazy. i think there is a shift in attitudes about drug policy, not just eric holder. it's coming from conservative republicans as well. that's what's so important at this moment, having people like rand paul come forward and say why are we locking up so many nonviolent offensive enders? so to me the real shift

he is going to be talking about minimum wage, and disparities in in income every growing in this country, and hearken back to past speeches he has made talking about making income distribution more quillable. and he had a lot of shoring up to do. this is a left-lanes think tank, the president going to the pourest region in terms of income in this city, ward 8, and he is going to be talking about empowering people who are economically disadvantaged and bringing them into the american dream. something he has talked about not a lot frefrequently. and he is also trying to turn the page from the bungled healthcare rollout. and here is the president. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you, everybody. please, please, have a seat. [ applause ] >> thank you so much. well, thank you ni ra for the wonderful introduction and sharing a story that resinated with me. there are were a lot of parallels in my life and probably resinated with some of you. in other the past ten years the center for american progress has done incredible work to shape the debate over expanding opportunity for all americans, and

it's outrageous. >> the disparity was nowhere near what it is today.ut there's something, i think, larger than just numbers going on here. that if we break -- if the chain is broken, the chain that american parents have always felt that their children could do and would do better in this country than they have done in this country, that's broken, then something fundamental about who we are as a country is broken. and deeply flawed. the idea that we cannot raise the minimum wage. the idea that a majority of members of congress on both sides of the house and senate, both parties, somehow have come up with the conclusion that we can never again raise taxes on anything because we don't have the courage to come up with a system where we'll raise a specific tax to take care of an issue. it's crazy. this is crazy. we can't go on as a country like this. >> so, mike, we're entering a time in this december where unemployment insurance is set to lapse. there's very little appetite among congressional republicans right now to continue the program. those benefits w

and economic disparities and all that and the more we become an unjust society. the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence. now to some other news making headlines around the globe in iraq officials say gunman have killed eighteen oil and gas workers and wounded seven northeast of baghdad most of the dead are reportedly iranian the attack happened as they were digging a trench to extend a pipeline running between iran and iraq sources say the incident took place in the predominantly sunni area. i'll jump that's the slogan of protesters in mexico city demonstrating against the government's plan to increase public transport fares they're taking collective action by jumping over turnstiles instead of paying the claim it's not a shortage of money but corruption that's to blame for the high cost of transportation in the mexican capital the price reforms would make a metro take it in the city one of the most expensive in the world compared to salaries. roads have turned into heavy into rivers as heavy rain causes chaos acro

and economic disparities and all that and the more we become an unjust society. the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence. well coming up after the break we visit two islands and ravaged by nearly two hundred nuclear test explosions this is r.t. international stay with us. just imagine a foreign leaders like alexander lukashenko or vladimir putin just showed up an anti e.u. protest and all garia greece are hungry to urge people to leave the e.u. and join up with the eurasian customs union obviously the mainstream media would be on fire screaming that this is part of an attempt to usurp democracy and steal the country's away some sort of imperialist agenda and you know what they might be right about that but the weird thing is that for some reason the mainstream media isn't talking about foreign politicians speaking to and or possibly agitating protesters in ukraine like speaker of the lithuanian parliament loreto grows in india an e.u. vice president got sick proto see of each and former polish pm jaroslav kaczynski

and economic disparities and all that and the more we become an unjust society. the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence under some more international news making headlines around the world this hour a suspected grenade attack on a bus has left at least four people dead in kenya's capital nairobi more than thirty people have been reported injured it is the latest in a string of assaults that have killed thirteen people since the beginning of the week kenya has experienced an increase in violence over the last several years with much of it blamed on somalia the rebel groups. more than five thousand people have been evacuated from flood damaged homes in northern gaza least one person was killed and over one hundred people suffered injuries due to severe weather in some areas the water level was reported to have reached two meters high and making some homes accessible only by rowboats the flooding was triggered by several days of torrential rain. iran claims it is holding a british spy it has put him on trial for offic

and on racial disparities and economic disparities all that and more meaty common and just society. the more we are risks for continuing on gun violence and potentially growing and violence. a protest mood is once again sweeping across europe as people angry with their government's policies have taken to the streets in a number of the city in madrid crowds that turned in congress outraged by an earlier draft of the legislation which allows authorities to hit those protesting outside government buildings with heavy fines spaniards are not the only europeans angry with their government's policies in italy nationwide anti austerity project had descended into violence the demonstrators in great with tax hikes and biting cuts to a handful of sectors have clashed with police on the streets of the tour in rome and venice. spearheaded by farmers and truck drivers the movement was later killing five students in small business owners. curly r t spoke to european asset manager eric kraus who says that the discontent is driven by the ill management of the country the protesters are dirty global

and economic disparities and all that and the more we become an unjust society. the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence it's been years since the end of apartheid in south africa but there's still plenty of unresolved anger. it's definitely in sight because if you see that what goes through the room. as a nation mourns nelson mandela racial tensions are deeper than average in some corners of the nation and we had to one such area in a few minutes. there is a fresh wave of calls in western countries for the architects of the two thousand and eight financial meltdown to be brought to justice has word turned to one iceland convicted four former bank chiefs of fraud the man illegally helped a foreign investor buy into their firm just before it collapsed in two thousand and eight independent news editor charlie mcgraw says it's high time for similar lawsuits in america. we take these so-called private corporations right these are free market capitalist corporations of which they are not we are to control the economy her

and economic disparities and all that and the more we become an unjust society. the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence. a protest mood is once again sweeping across europe as people angry with their government's policies have taken to the streets in a number of cities and madrid crowds have surrounded congress outraged by an earlier draft would read legislation which allows authorities to hit those protesting outside government buildings with heavy fines and spaniards are not the only europeans angry with their government's policies in italy nationwide anti austerity protests have descended into violence and demonstrators enraged with tax hikes and biting cuts to a handful of sectors have clashed with police on the streets of that tour in rome and venice spearheaded the first by farmers and truck drivers the movement was later joined by students and small business owners earlier today spoke to european asset manager erich krauss who says that the public's a discontent is driven by the ill management of the country

meanwhile the disparity could to the level of achievement of males than females. marie talents. add to the large number of students we cannot meet mathematics standards compared to other asian countries. the disparity in mathematics achievement highlighted by the two continents will survey the full fifteen in the english language section of the basic competence at the junior high school students. the main issue that you can't miss that family background and the gap between city and countryside factors. as for reading and science that one finished eighth and thirteenth for the city an improvement in eighteen nineties and a drop of one notch effectively compared to two thousand and nine many students and parents who were concerns that there were news reports indicating to fight by the universities are planning to push the hike. several groups along the protests in front of the ministry of education to voice their opposition against a possible hike. protesters pointed out that education is not a commodity and that tuition hikes is equal to pay cut for parents . the students that go

and economic disparities we become an unjust society are the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence. it's thirty five minutes past midnight here in moscow now a very good morning for me then kevin over near moscow the next news update thirty five minutes time here on out international we've got the story of two islands ravaged by nearly two hundred nuclear test explosions off the break meantime to watch i guess in the u.k. evenings you i'll show going underground with host afshin rattansi after the break as well for you. just imagine a foreign leaders like alexander lukashenko or vladimir putin to shoot up an anti e.u. protest and all garia greece are hungry to urge people to leave the e.u. and join up with the eurasian customs union obviously the big media would be on fire screaming that this is part of an attempt to usurp democracy and steal the country's away some sort of imperialist agenda and you know what they might be right about that but the weird thing is that for some reason the mainstream media isn't talking about foreign poli