so what i am encouraging the people who gave the presentation is to have a website where the empirical data is posted said that we can see exactly what is done. normally what happens is even though the presenters don't look like anybody who lives in the community, we need people who look like the people who live in the community who sympathize with them and understand the conditions to be part of this program. these type of grants do not benefit and there is a lot of dictation. you will see 650,000 that are there trying to employ three or four people from this grant. maybe they should employ one or two people from this grant and put more money to serve more women in the disadvantaged areas. this is a very very deep issue that cannot be addressed in two minutes but this is what happens. people come here, speak arbitrarily in general terms. some questions were asked, not a very deep questions. i would encourage you, supervisors. if there is one person here during public comment to give us three minutes. thank you. >> are there other members of the public who wish to speak? seeing none, public

got an addition to our name to do professional services and i see here where there is no real empirical data and this is how i want to address it. i want to know the number of primes that do business and san francisco and what their profit is. there are a number oflbes that do business in san francisco and i want to know what their profit is. i want to know how they are paid. how did they do that job and when are they paid. that is very critical. what i see here, as often happens when it comes to the human rights commission, you can come out with something that is new, but who has the expertise and clout to do the checking? it is very convoluted. one of view supervisors has brought in a bigger corporation that can do this and pay the most control and get yourself a corporation and if you have a third party that takes professional fees, they can certify you in a jiffy. [tone] this is a hindrance to them -- they are already suffering in san francisco. >> i'm with the american sustainable business council. i want to address a couple of points that seem to come up. one is about the specificity o

the first policy should be based on evidence and empirical data. the second should focus on the rights of citizens and protecting public health. third, government should take a flexible approach towards coordination and governments around the world have started to recognize the waste and the human toll of our existing approach. there models to look at like switzerland, germany, the netherlands and portugal where ten years ago it led to a large reduction in other drug use and massive drops in property crime, hiv and violence. i hope this hearing can start a new debate around the policy and we look forward to discussing this with you today. we need obviously to reduce the prime and social problems associated with drug markets in whatever way is most effective. also i will say a couple of words. >> the chairman arestein ask questions. >> i want to say how i can give evidence from my experience and as a woman of the global commission, i was for ten years minster of health and as witserland. during the time of my responsibility, we introduced a change i

so i think our ability to play in many of those states is already there with empirical data. and we intend to be very aggressive in doing that. but we're hopeful, also, that if we can do this well in romney's home state, we clearly think that this bodes well for super tuesday. and i should mention one other thing is that we are being out spent by romney and his super pack and we have no -- we have no false hope that that will continue to be the case. however, we are finding that we operate in enough money that we can effectively get our message out there. in the month of february, so far, and today being the last day, thanks to leap year, we've had over 115,000 contributors to our campaign in the month of february alone. and we believe that we will today surpass what president obama averages on a monthly basis. and i think that's just a spectacular statistic that shows that this campaign is growing expone exponentially and that there's people out there not just being passionate supporters, they're being sue portpporters by writi checks as well. >> john brabender in a teleconf

and according to the empirical data on the subject, dictatorships and totalitarian regimes are by nature more likely to wage war on other countries and torture their own citizens at home than democratic societies, because absolute power will give people the ability to act instantaneously on those dark impulses that lie within us all. and the solution according to romal is to diffuse power through education and through democracy. grass roots political activism will hold leaders accountable for their actions, and education and public access to government information will enable people to make informed decisions about their elected officials. i think democracy fleeds to be championed not as some abstract ideal but as an actual preventative measure against atrocity, and what i found in my research was that the chinese in america were very active participants in this process of democracy, and contrary to popular belief, and stereotypes, they were never past the victims of injustice. what isn't commonly discussed in history books, they fought back time and again using the tactics of martin lut

>> we have shown many, many employers, many, many insurance companies empirical data. we show a cost savings both on f treating people. the average untreated alcoholic or addict's health costs, for example, are 100% higher than others who are in recovery. 100% higher. just think of that. the average person out there who is addicted and is drugging or drinking still, their health care costs 100% higher than the treated alcoholic or a person suffering from a mental disorder. the cost the wall street journal pointed out not long ago, $30 billion sucked out of for depression in the workplace. i could go on and on with the litany of costs. what we do is show them, whether it's the new england journal of medicine study, the minnesota study, the california study, just -- i could go on and on. there have been many, many studies corroborating what i'm saying, that this, in the end, will save the insurance companies money. and those eight companies who support parity learned that first and learned it well and understand that. >> do you think the anonymous and alcoholics anonymou

we know empirically through data, national data, when parents are involved in schools, children and families do better. children, families, schools do better when parents are involved. another point to mention is that given that san francisco is a city of immigrants, many family support programs act as extended family for the families they are working with. for families who have now extended family here. they played a key role in bridging that gap and supporting families to be healthy and strong. the second point to mention in terms of what the support network is doing is our policy platform on promoting family economic success. all this can be found at our website at sfsfsn.org the policy platform focuses on this key area of promoting family economics assess. as we -- family economic success. there was a gap in ones focused on the economic success. that is where our network came up with this policy platform which looks that supporting families economically through unit family support, two generations strategy. we're talking about supporting the parents to obtain the education and skills the

>> we have shown many, many employers and many, many insurance programs empirical data. we have studies to show the cost savings, both on a macro level in a micro level of treating people. the average un-treated alcoholic or addict increase health care costs that are 100% higher than patrick kennedy's and jim ramstad's or anybody else who is in recovery. think of that. the average person out there who is addicted, drugging and drinking still, has health care costs 100% higher than that treated alcoholic or a person suffering from a mental disorder. the cost the "wall street journal and" pointed out was $40,000 sucked out from the gdp. i could go on and gagne -- on and on here we show them weather is the california or the minnesota study -- i could go on forever. there have been many studies corroborating what i am saying. in the end, this will save the insurance companies money. those of a company supporting parity learned that well. -- those eight companies supporting. he learned that well. >> do you think the anonymous contributors to the stigma and discrimination agai

our next guest says that is exactly the case if you look empirically at the data.that all of us share some of the blame for intervening to stop the state of perpetual war. our guest as law professor at the university of southern california, author of "war time, an idea, its history, and its consequences." there are sort of two parts that are connected. one is your assertion that we are indeed in a perpetual state of war and any thought of war as a temporary event is either a fantasy or political manipulation. can you elaborate? sure. my book takes up more tiwar tim concept. the idea of war time is doing a lot of work in american politics. as you saw in the previous segment war of words, sometimes words and concepts matter. what i do in the book is i look at ideas about time that are built into the way we think about war. the way we think about history is history passes through two different kinds of time from war time to peace time to war time, etcetera. that's the way we learn about it in school. that's the way we imagine it. when we use the concept of war time, w

first, drug policy should be based on evidence and empirical data. drug policy should focus on the rights of citizens and on protecting public health to stop unnecessary suffering. third, government should take a flexible approach to drug policy coordination, and governments around the world have started to recognize the waste of the human toll of our existing approach. there are models to look at such as switzerland, germany, the netherlands and portugal where decriminalization ten years ago has led to a large reduction in karen -- heroin use. and i hope this hearing can start a new debate around drugs policy, and we look forward to discussing this with you today. we need, obviously, to reduce the crime, health and social problems associated with drug markets in whatever way is most effective. and, also, if i may, just ask -- [inaudible] to say a few -- >> federal counselor, if you could be very brief because we have a lot of questions. >> sure. >> you were for ten years the head of your own committee in switzerland, so you know that members are kee

different data, kinds of states, yet we're finding empirical evidence to support similar dynamics at play. mohammed, you raised the important point that didn't come out of the earlier conversation about secularism and secular regimes. one of the questions i want to put to the panel is, you know, in your empirical work and theorizing ar this does it matter who is repressed? does it matter if it's one group, if it's the majority or a minority ji does it matter if it's everybody who's repressed? meaning a highly secularized regime, turkey, raise it as an example, and what does this mean as religious freedom? mohammed's making a powerful story, maybe if you repress everybody, down the road you give them enough time, people will operate a little more moderately in the end? i'm not sure that's the case. could be an outlier. looking at the different types of regimes, secularizing regimes versus those that allow a little more openness what have you found in your data as you look at it? in terms of, you know, what we're interested in, which is extremism and that extreme then sort of legitimat

data. the producer price index and the empire state survey. then at 9:00 tlc data. that tells how people have been treating co-workers. >> tic. >> it looks like an "l." oh, tic data. >> the learning channel. >> oh, had nothing to do with -- >> it's how much investors all around the world -- >> not upticks and down ticks. >> and not deer tics. >> because it is that season. >> i went fishing yesterday for the first time. you said i was hip to music, there is a band called deer tic. >> that's the new thing, right? >> oh, you said that. >> one good word and one bad word. danger muffin. >> you think it's new? >> what's your favorite band? >> grateful dead. i didn't notice that. >> didn't think about that, did you? >> i didn't think about that like a lot of things. >>> yesterday the market didn't move a whole lot when you were talking about stocks but we did see major moves in the other markets. you'll see the dow futures are indicated higher, up by 18 points above fair value. oil prices this morning, again, right now you're still talking above $105. up about 12 cents to

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data as well. we'll have jobless claims and ppi at 8:30 a.m. the empire state survey and the philadelphia fed survey, and the imf is set to discuss the financial package for greece. and the s.e.c. is cracking down on the trading of pre-ipo stocks after a yearlong investigation after it charged felix inve investments and eb financial. the filing says the fund managers raised over money by overcharging for such offerings as twitter and facebook. >>> redwood city plans to raise water rates by 12% and sewer rates by 9% in may. that means people will pay about $5 more per month. the city's increased rates by 9% in each of the past two years. and it says it needs the money for repairs and upgrades. if approved, the new rates would go into effect july 1st. >>> it is 5:21 right now. coming up, a deal could mean more pro golf events in san francisco over the coming years. we'll have details next. >>> once all the snow clears there will be a new way to get around lake tahoe. we'll explain. >>> and different ways that you may be able to find anab ipad 2r 3, whatever

data out at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. at the same time we'll be getting ppi figures for february and the empire manufacturing index for march. at 10:00 a.m. eastern time the philadelphia fed releases its survey for march and in the afternoon the federal reserve is releasing details of its balance sheet and money supply so keep an eye on those. also, the imf meeting happening during which the fund will discuss contribution to the second bailout package for greece plus comments from treasury secretary geithner who is speaking at the economic club of new york at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. so a lot on the calendar today and, of course, still with us is allison deans. we'll talk about it more in terms of what we're expecting here. a lot of different economic data points to be watching for but i think all eyes on the weekly jobless numbers as well as we look for that unemployment picture to improve. your thoughts? >> my sense is we will see incremental improvement which is more people starting to go back into the labor market and, as you know when you saw the unemployment numbers go out, more people have become hope ifful re-enterin

this is on the heels of empire, which a 20.21 was at the highest level since june of 2010. so we still continue to see datacourse, we then look at the interest rate complex, which seems to have had a spike today close to 350 in a 30-year that's backed up close to 340, and same pattern is true for ten. carl, back to you. >> we heard a couple different things, one the month increase for ppi was very hot, the other -- that the year over year was very mild. which is it? >> you know, i think i always look at the rate of change. i always think that the closer in time your data is, that's the rate of change you want to pay closest attention to, in my opinion. >> thank you very much. you are warning us about more numbers today. we'll see what's. >>> a road map for the next hour, the dow looking to log its seventh straight win today, but as risk had on trading prevails, why is one investor saying the s&p should slide to as low as 1,000? that's in a moment. >>> and jeremy lin, and the knicks' d'antoni, and what do the fans have to say? we'll talk to the president of stubhub. >>> this after gold broke through several