their are heavily weighted negative factors, negative factors, and positive factors and heavily weighted positive factors. if you have private health insurance, that is a heavily weighted positive factor. so, those do all weigh in in the totality of circumstances. and obviously we call the more heavily weighted factors heavily because they matter more than others. but they go in both directions. >> we have heard outspoken critics of the administration on immigration policy before but increasingly we are hearing from u.s. catholic bishops. does it give you pause in carrying out these policies? mr. cuccinelli: it does not give me pause about implementing the laws already put in place. i use an italian background earlier, the other is irish. half i'm very familiar with what the catholic bishops have to say. they certainly are vociferous and i would say as a catholic, one thing i'm proud of is my church has been one of the best supporters of people in this country before we had a welfare state. so, i don't see that changing and i don't see any conflict with enforcing the law as it's written.

factor: you do a great job. we mentioned you because you deserve to be mentioned. >> thank you very much. touching on outlandish salaries. with,of teachers we speak making $500,000 a year, the transparency and how much do you think the actual union member, how important it is to get that type of information out? it is really union members getting the raw deal. work to ensureof these are the benefits you are getting. i would venture to say if the rank and file new what was going on, they would play a huge component in bring down the salaries. mr. factor: you are absolutely right. thank you for the question. the president makes $400,000 a year. the american federation of teachers, $425,000 a year. at headquarters, over half of the employees make over $75,000, substantially more than teachers make. the president of the alabama association makes $500,000 a year. in alabama -- mr. factor: it is good to be a shadowboss. life is good. that is not including benefits, expenses. did you know that these unions own hotels?

and no one factor alone will decide an applicant's case. most of these factors are the ones congress mandated us to review when considering immigration benefit applications. under this final rule, uscis will objectively determine whether an applicant is likely at any time in the future to receive public benefits above the designated threshold. rule hasly, this final no impact on humanitarian-based immigration programs for refugees and asylees, and it clarifies the exemption for trafficking victims and victims of domestic violence. congress has long carved out exemptions for these categories and our regulation adheres strictly to the law that is written. the final rule also excludes from consideration, public benefits received by certain members of the armed forces and their spouses and children as well as medicaid benefits for emergency medical services. lastly, under the final rule, the uscis can permit an applicant seeking an applicant test seeking a green card in the united states is admissible only on the public charge ground to adjust

factors? there are options. so to be more specific, we could say staff intends to apply these discretionary factors at the outset. we get a complaint. we evaluate the severity, the impact, the probability that will be able to prove it up. and if something falls too far down on the ladder, we don't open it, even though it's meritorious. so we have fewer matters on the docket. we could, in addition, look at the existing docket and decide applying these factors, considering the 90 matters that are still open, which of them again fall too far to the bottom of the ladder in terms of the factors that we wish to apply here. let's clear out some of the chaff and free ourselves up to pursue the ones that we think matter the most. that would be one approach to this, is to whittle down the size of the docket on the basis of these factors. a second approach would be different. the second approach would be to say we will continue to open all meritorious complaints and to place them on the investigative doc

there are a lot of risk factors. mental illness is a minor risk factor for gun violence. maybe more of a risk factor for suicide. host: what evidence is there that red flag laws work? guest: they are early in their implementation. there's only been one definitive study in connecticut. that study has shown that they've been very helpful in reducing suicides. impactta about what they've had in reducing homicides. host: the research in connecticut and indiana found for every 10-20 confiscations under the law, there was one fewer death than otherwise expected. that's from timothy williams in "the new york times today." we are talking about red flag laws in this half-hour of "washington journal." republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. ron honberg is our guest this morning, a senior policy advisor at the national alliance on mental illness. i want to come back to something you said about how mental illness is being talked about in the wake of mass shootings. hear afterts when we these shootings that nobody in their right mind would do so

7 plus 2, factors called the senate factors. you'll see that it is consistent with any good historian would o do. look at these things if you were trying to get the totality of circumstances that's needed now. in other words, the courts used a senate factor when assessing whether a procedure results in prohibitive discrimination and violation of section 2. the factors which are outlined in the senate report are precisely the factors that a historian would want to look at. it's a way of organizing an independently verifiable historical analysis for the courts. that's what i would summarize in almost every court case. you don't have to do them all, but i usually would. attorneys now need historians then to establish not just intent, but also to do the senate factors. as congress recognized after the mobile decision in 1980, persuading a court to find intent is is a r formidable challenge. proven intent has never been easier. but it's become even more difficult now because modern politicians are much less careless about saying that

factor lot. one of the nationally i'd like to win the champions league it's a fantastic competition you know when you don't get it from so i want to get as far as possible that you know 2020 don't fully the way with this tremendous team but i'm going to start my new to. give a damn is a prominent new face involves book sign from young boys that he's a fullback who loves to get full would. have to have to make us just watch the rest of the 6 just to see this week's international he's raring to go in the bundesliga . sebastien rudy's another german international returning to their old stomping grounds he's back at hoffenheim on long enough to spell goodbye and shall hear. such a great time he just want to try and reconnect with that comment. he made a name for himself last season most memorably with patrick by. now don't even come back here has left just a little to help when the belgian hopes to continue his ascent. to. the phone company from my braille ambo swap shop catholic glad he's already sh

so that's how i showed senate factor -- senate factor 9. that people could understand what was going on at the time. one of the things in texas, for example, you could have a gun permit, i.d., and you can vote, but you can't have a state i.d. or a student i.d. with pictures on it and you still cannot vote and it was easy to show, of course, who had the gun permits and who had the other sorts of things. well, we did win that case and judge ramos' findings that the voter i.d. had a discriminatory tint is still there. have no practical benefit today. the texas legislature repeals senate bill 14, replaced it with senate bill 5. senate bill 5 has the same very list of what's acceptable as a voter i.d. but they added in as south carolina did an affidavit with a reasonable -- now, the 5th circuit, several federal judges appointed in the last two years, some slight of hand to say that this replacement act, though it's almost the same as the other one, is okay, but we do have the precedent of intent in the in-person voter i.d. in texas. now, the mos

the factors which are outlined are precisely the factors that they would want to look at. they organize and verify the analysis. that's what i would summarize on every court case. you don't have to do it, but usually would. attorneys now historians to establish not just intent, but also to do the senate factors. as congress recognized the decision in 1980 they proceeded to get intent is an informative challenge. it's never been easier, but it's even more difficult now, because modern politicians are much less careless about saying that it's for a racial purpose than when i first heard this you can find quite a few in texas. is very hard to do now. work increased again for experts with a 1986 case which was at a north carolina. you to show three things that were really to statistical in order to prevail as minority. whites normally boat together against the preferred choice of the candidate that you can show that minorities do vote together and agree on canada. and you can ask the form a district in some way that african-americans could do it. i did this because minority pl

could you say how much of a factor the u.s.-china trade conflict was in the fed's decision to cut rates. -- decision to cut rates? and if the current stalemate and the threat of mark harris continue, what would that mean for future interest rates and possible cuts? chair powell: i would not bring it down to any one thing or any factor. one we look at a broad range of factors and trade uncertainty. trade policy uncertainty is one of them. that certainly includes the discussion of china, but i would not be able to tell you how much is due to that. with trade, we have to react to the developments, and we do not know what they will be. so it is hard to exactly say. certainly, we have seen when there is a sharp confrontation between two large economies, you can ce facts on business confidence pretty quickly, but then we saw it unwind after that. you see it returning to a much lower temperature, i think. again, with trade policy we are just going to be watching and trying to assess the implications for the u.s. outlook. [indiscernibl

let's get to our weekly factor funds segment.ld curve inverting is having a varying effect on the performance of various factors. here to talk us through the leaders and the laggards, tom psarofagis, etf analyst with bloomberg intelligence. what does well, what doesn't do well with a flat yield curve? relationshiphis has actually held up historically, momentum and low vol. sort of the obvious is you have an environment where rates are going down, the curve is flattening. a lot of the names are just bond proxies, so low vol is doing pretty well. if we look at the market yesterday, value fell more than the s&p on the day, which sort of throws people off because people think value is a little more defensive. when you look at something like momentum, i think it throws people off a bit. that value is one that does very poorly in this environment. vonnie: it just can't seem to catch a break. what drives value underperformance in these type of an arm it's, these -- these type of environments, these periods, tom? athanasios: one, with th

to help offset the effect factors were curtly having on the economy and to promote a faster return of inflation to the percent objective. all of these objectives will support achievement of our goal sustained expansion closer objective for the benefit of the american people. we also decided to conclude the runoff of our securities portfolio in august rather than in september as previously planned. and i will discuss the thinking behind the reduction in turn to the pot forward. as the year began, both the economy and monetary policy were in a good place. the unemployment rate was below 4% in a are interest-rate target was that the low ends of neutral. over the first half of the year, the economy grew at healthy pace. and it pushed on appointment to near a half-century low. wages have been rising particularly for lower paying jobs. people who live and work in low and middle income communities tell us that many who struggle to find work are now getting opportunities to add new and better chapters to their lives. this underscores the perfect of sustaining expansion. to the course of the y

forward, of that list, what's the strongest factor? >> the strongest factor is president trump himself as well as mitch mcconnell who runs the united states senate . without those two men, without the support from t those two men, no gun control measure will move through the congress and get to the president's desk and be signed into law a lot of this have to depend on how serious president trump is when he says he supports and endorses background checks because we've heard in the past after the parkland shooting in eflorida the president say exactly that, and he supports background checks and of course as we know, that was not backed up by any sort of action on capitol hill. it was uttered but never followed up on. instead, after lobbying strong lobbying on behalf of the nra, president trump and his administration shifted towards what they said was a hardening of schools, really boosting or ramping up security of the public school system and that became the focus rather than any sort of background check so it remains to be seen whethe

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those factors can contribute to obesity. we have run somesupport, studiet were similar in design to the crime studies, where people read a narrative about obesity and in thise judgments area study, one judgment people made was about blame, who deserves the blame for obesity? we had people answer questions attached to individual blame and environmental blame. thinparticipants read the narrative that focused on the individual, others had a narrative it talked about overweight as an addiction. it's a disorder similar to that. at the other extreme was the environmental narrative. ist we see in this plot after reading the emphasis of personal failure, people are happy to assign a lot of lame to an individual. they don't think the environment plays a big role. at the other end of the extreme, people who read about some of the societal and environmental causes of obesity are showing the opposite pattern. they are happy to attribute and are the environment much more forgiving to an individual. in this study, we asked people about th

a number of factors explain volt choice. ideology does not. it's an example hough the assumption that ideology matters in these races is not always correct when you're looking at races. you have to look at the context of what's happening and one factor that i would just point out is, one is that we find a variable that helps explain vote choice. that's whether a republican publicly endorsed gingrich's ethics investigations into wright. a letter circulated. and republicans who signed that in 1988 were statistically significantly more likely to vote for gingrich which we take as a sign of that view about party strategy as being key in explaining vote choice in this election. all right. what i want to do now with the few minutes i have remaining and then open it up for questions is go from older history to very, very recent history in the house of representatives and talk about the race for speaker in 2019. now this is a different kind of election than the others that we -- that i've talked about and cover in the book. this is about the speaker,

so the atmosphere is not the only factor. the reasons are more complex let's start with the animal kingdom. once they accept to defend their territory for example their testosterone levels shoot up and they behave more aggressively. british researchers. discovered similar. by studying saliva samples they found proof that the players on the home team have significantly higher levels than white players. and especially high among goalkeepers they have 2 territories to defend their goal and their stadium. but testosterone is again not the sole reason. sports scientists daniel men are determined effective that could be decisive for home advantage we. could have. discovered that visiting teams are on average given 0.5 more yellow cards then their hosts spectators has an influence on the decision on the referee and. he invited a number of referees to his lap to watch a video recordings of phelps they were then asked to say which bookable offenses except how of the refs were shown videos with sound without meaning no crowd noise from

ideology is not a major factor. they are ideologically different but what they really talk about his the strategic direction of the party and where it should go. madigan makes it clear that he believes that newt gingrich approach is not a good one. partisan differentiation, provocative action, it's more about working with congress to get things done and influence election outcomes. there's also a difference in age and seniority. younger members find younger-- or, gingrich works to appeal to those. they both campaigned pretty aggressively but gingrich makes a key move building a strategic alliance with moderates in his party. they don't agree with him ideologically but they do agree that more needs to be done get the republicans out of the minority and back into the chamber which they have not controlled since 1964 so that is a key alliance. there are a number of developments. what happens is when he goes to his colleagues and says bob michael is doing what he can to stop and it's frustrating. so a group of allies go

the decisive factor for why young people make such decisions why they're going west. for many poles high all wages abroad are only one reason to leave a sense of adventure is another but who will take their place at home for now more than a 1000000 ukrainians who have come to escape their own economic crisis poland also tries to attract workers from the philippines. and if you have the feeling that the stall journey is making a comeback is more evidence you're right 40 years. after the sony walkman hit the scene sales of compact cassette tapes are at a record high at least in the u.k. some $36000.00 cassettes have sold so far this year there's a surprise hit with younger music lovers looking to get their friends with music looking for something more affordable than vinyl records and it's also newer acts that are boosting sales american singer billy eilish has sold the most cassettes so far this year in the u.k. . and that's it from me in the business team here in berlin you can of course find out more about these and other stories online at www dot com slash business

factor i. want to say nationally i'd like to win the champions league it's a fantastic competition you know when you don't get it from so i want to get as far as possible with you know 2020 hopefully all the way with this tremendous team but i want to start my new figures with. kevin and bobby who is a prominent new face in both books saw him from young boys of but he's a fullback who loves to get full would. have to have to make us want to risk a whole bunch of 6 or 8 assists to say this was international he's raring to go in the bundesliga. sebastien ruiz another german international returning to their old stomping grounds he's back at hoffenheim on long enough to spell goodbye and shall get. such a great time here and just want to try and connect with that accommodates. he made a name for himself last season most memorably with a hat trick by now don't even look up back here has left just a little for half what the belgian hopes to continue to exist. bring. the phone company from braille mbo

this is notjust down to global factors. there are uk specific factors in this number.any way. any forecaster... it is -0.2. it is weakening versus the previous quarter, but first of all, there are global factors. we are seeing a significant slowdown in major global economies and just this week, we had some very poor figures from germany, one of the other european powerhouses alongside the uk, and that shows you there are globalfactors. there of uk, and that shows you there are global factors. there of a trade war which has been around now for months and that is certainly having an impact, but also what everyone knows and that is certainly having an impact, but also what everyone knows in this particular figures impact, but also what everyone knows in this particularfigures is in the previous quarter, we saw some significant stockpiling by british businesses in anticipation of the brexit is that never was and now they are using those stockpiles, they are using those stockpiles, they are using those stockpiles, they are coming down, so we are seeing volatility in those f

or dell or nintendo are moving their money factoring operations from china to be. a lengthy process a tool and at some point the cost of from running a production outside china or directly dealing with the tirades will either take a toll on profit margins and operation or be passed to consumers say who play. a role at least in the us economy so it seems a died out with the old these situation everybody loses so far stephen and of course we'll be following this as it develops jose luis the heart of their force in new york thank you. american manufacturing activity has slowed for the 4th straight month hitting its lowest level in nearly 3 years that's according to the july survey from the institute for supply management the biggest supply chain industry association in the world now con of us had expected an uptick in new factory orders once again contracted with exports also down on weak will demand especially hard hit where metals electrical components and transportation sectors the news is a blow for president donald trump who has promised to revive american manufa

the us—china trade war and uncertainty over brexit are just some of the factors weighing on markets.t's led to volatile trading in many markets around the world. over the past nine months the price of gold has shot up dramatically — rising more than $300 per ounce. but it's notjust gold. over the same period german government debt — from europe's traditional power house economy — has been a magnet for investors — pushing returns on the bonds to record lows. concerns about global growth have really accelerated over the past 3—4 months. you can see this in demand for the japanese yen — also often seen as a safe—haven in times of trouble. pablo shah, senior economist at the centre for economics and business research joins me now. how real is the threat of a global recession? we put the risk at about one third, see a global recession over the next two years so, at risk has built up quite significantly over the recent months, there are a number of factors weighing on the other, there is ongoing trade war between the us and china, that is not show much signs of show —— slowing down, is exp

those factors can contribute to obesity. we have run some studies that are similar in design to the beast the virus and studies where people read a narrative about obesity and then make some judgments. and in this study, one judgment that people made was about blame. who deserves the blame for obesity? we had people answer questions that were related to individual blame and societal blame, environmental blame. some participants read the thin narrative that focused on the individual, others had a narrative that talked about overweight as an addiction. medicalization of the problem. a disorder narrative was similar to that one. at the other extreme was the environmental narrative. what we see in this plot is after reading the narrative that emphasizes personal failure, people are happy to assign a lot of blame to an individual for being overweight and they don't think the environment plays a big role. at the other end of the extreme, people who read about some of the societal and environmental causes of obesity are showing the

list, what is the strongest factor? strongest factor is president trump himself, as well as mitch mcconnell. men -- withoutwo support from those men, no gun control measure will move through the congress and get to the president's desk and be signed into law. a lot of this has to depend on how serious president trump is when he says he supports and endorses background checks. we have heard in the past after the parkland shooting in florida, the president say that he supports background checks. of course, as we know, that was anybacked up that -- by sort of action on capitol hill. it was uttered, but never followed up on. instead, after strong lobbying on behalf of the nra, president trump and his administration shifting -- shifted toward what they called was a hardening of schools really boosting and ramping up security of the public school system. that became the focus rather than any background checks. it remains to be seen whether the president will put some teeth behind his words. host: what is the most appropriate

i am focusing on some of the other factors. i would be remiss if i did not mention the importance of jobs and similar factors in the u.s. >> we will take two more. first? >> thank you. i am from equal access international. i am curious, do you have examples -- our research identifies critical significance belonging, all of these things, agency is a critical factor. if those are critical to engagement and i appreciate the framing around disengagement, what examples do you have of programs that work to rehabilitate? we call off ramping individuals that are also asset-based? we are not stripping away those critical pieces. we are just taking away the violence. >> thank you. >> i am with the state department. one of the areas we talk about trying to change the stigma is with governments themselves. government actors like police officers or military officials, trying to reverse the history. do you have any specific guidance for changing the stigma? >> somebody mentioned the use of counter messaging to take people on this radicalizat

absolutely and you know there are a lot of factors at play when you come into these trade figures these are monthly trade figures that are released you know looking back at the previous month so these are july's numbers and he said that at least one and that was overall export numbers 3.3 percent increase now that's something we haven't seen since this trade war really has been going on at least the last couple of months an increase in those exports again that's overall not just the united states to the united states specifically we're still seeing decreases but less than we have the last month 19 percent down exports to the united states. and it's something that we're going to see probably going forward and one thing to really underline is that when you look at these numbers particular during a trade war they could be very erratic because there are so many factors at play you know we have we're looking at you know the what's going to be happening in august we're going to see another round of tariffs implemented by the united states in september so a lot of companies based in the united

that different factors for over production but one interesting factor is that the companies have beenarguing that farmers need to increase their productivity so they need to produce higher yields in order to earn more income so now we have a situation where we have more supply than demand for cocoa and this is also contributed to the decreasing market price so from our perspective it's not enough if the companies keep saying that we need to increase the productivity we need to talk about fair prices well some would argue that this problem with the pricing has led to child labor i mean a heap of kids in west africa working on plantations. how is that making the situation even more complicated i mean you're absolutely right about it's so tight labor is a complex issue it's tied to many different factors so it's a question of lack of awareness in the communities it's also a question of a lack of infrastructure not enough schools and cocoa growing areas but as he has said it's also tied to the poverty issue because farmers are not using their children as free labor because they're bad peo

vonnie: still ahead, factor funds are popular. our weekly factor funds discussion is next.s is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ vonnie: live from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. guy: in london, i'm guy johnson. this is "bloomberg markets." our weekly factor funds segment. low vol factor funds are proving once again to be popular during the recent market drop. here to talk us through it, tom psarofagis. up.ds go down, prices go i am in no way shocked that some of these low vol companies are doing really well right now. thanasios:ous -- a what's been happening, especially this year, is because all of those bond proxy sectors have been doing well, there was buying of low vol even before this drop. even as the market was making new highs, usually you would see money come out of low vol. but money has actually been piling at ahead of this market drop. hindsight is easy to pick this out, but it was almost a precursor of what was to come in the market. vonnie: why these instead of something alternative, tom? athanasios: to give you some context, there is one of these low vol that has $30 billion in ass

are there interoperability factors that we need to factor in like nato? are there other political issues that we need to address are there human rights issues we need to address quentin mark are there other negotiations or factors that we are seeking to address or reconcile at the same time a sale is being considered? that factors in the timing and sequencing ofa sale . another big one i would say is a shadow over all sales right now is what are we looking at from the national security strategy shadow of near. adversaries, near beer adversaries are limited to their own geographic regions. they are doing work in disruption throughout the globe so looking at a partner capability to address that on our behalf is certainly a factor so there's a host of interagency government factors that go into before we even informally notified congress about a potential sell, starting at the country team level, working with our embassies and working here at the ministerial interagency as well but it is very much country by country, case-by-case area certainly factoring in

the ones that you see here are differentiating factors. you will not see all the factors at the preferred alternative stage, they will be released at the draft document. and so in looking at the numbers, we've determined that alternative a will be our preferred alternative. this features a light facility on the east side of the tracks in brisbane and no passing tracks between san jose and redwood city. what we did was we looked at the numbers and saw that there was some tradeoffs. in alternative a, high-speed trains are not able to operate at fast. it's marginally about two minutes slower than alternative b but it's still high-speed operation even without passing tracks. jumping into the san jose to merced project section, you'll see many more environmental and community factors here. this is a much more complex environment. unlike san francisco to san jose, this is not a densely urbanized area, so there's many more natural environmental resources here. the staff recommended preferred alternative is the alternative four. this features a bl

it doesn't mean we don't also work on the pole factors and the push factors which are important.esn't mean we also don't fix our immigration standards. but i will go back to florence for a second not because i want to beat a dead horse but because i think it's important i was governor i ran a number of systems. my own view is that every time you give human beings deadlines and limits you go right up to them a little past them in a little past them. my concern is not i'm not critical of the personnel trying to do the best at the border given how overwhelmed they are. at the fact that the time limits very hard for us to meet right now given the lack of capacity at the border all our side and the numbers coming. my concern is that rather than change a standard which will then if you change it to 25 days now it's going to be 28 days or 35 days before kids get out. because that's human nature. if you instead change the focus to what's the capacity we need at the border as united states of america to keep children safe within the standards we already have, that's the surge capacity tha

but the big risk factor for both is the trade war between the us and china.ts to expand into the us which has become more difficult as the trade war rages and walmart relies on chinese imports to stock its shelves, so if those prices go up the company will have to decide whether to absorb the cost or pass it on to customers. samira hussain reports from new york. for a retail company like walmart, these tariffs are not good for business. walmart‘s credit, however, has been able to protect itself from big hits to its online by planning ahead and stockpiling inventory. but investors will want to hear how the company will continue to deal with a trade war that won't end anytime soon. but these walmart shoppers in newjersey are concerned about another issue altogether.” newjersey are concerned about another issue altogether. i heard there taking away violent video games but they won't stop selling guns, which is something that doesn't make sense to me. it's a family shopping place. maybe if they open a separate store for the guns, that's different, but not ina wal