little-known that the fsa had offices in puerto rico and st. croix. puerto rico had been a u.s. protectorate since 1898 when it went from spanish ownership to the united states. business people have gone there and developed industries from tobacco, various other kinds of projects. the people themselves were not well cared for. there was a hurricane in the 1920's that destroyed much of the crop land. in the 1930's, people were starving to death. the united states went to teach them better farming techniques, build housing that would not blow away with each hurricane. they were living in huts. life. a very rough -- enormousep high ly infant mortality rate. there was no milk. they were drinking coffee. it was this kind of extreme poverty that he wanted to address. ? is the only one -- jack was the only one who got down there and made these photographs because while he was there, pearl harbor occurred and the united states entered world war ii and he could not stay as long as he had hoped because he had to get back to sign-up to go into the military. he did some work and st. croix,

if people put money in an fsa that can bump us over. right now you are allowed to put in up to $2,500 in a flexible spending attack and then you can use that money for certain medical-related expenses pretax. a little bit of discount. >> does that include what the company would provide? >> it could in like a health savings account. sometimes employers pop in to help pay deductible. what some may be doing now is looking ahead and saying maybe we better ratchet back some of those things. >> a call from florida. david also with private insurance. >> good morning. my first question is why aren't they indexing that dollar amount for the cadillac tax? the second is there is only so much room to inkrecrease deductibles. it says you can't put your deductible past 6,000 and change for out of pocket and deductible can only go up so much. at some point we run out of room. it is limited to pull to offset the cadillac tax in the coming years. i would just be curious why aren't they indexing this and what happens when we run out of options? >> thanks

work fairly well, recommended who set hertriker to work in the most difficult part of the resettlement fsa territory. the southern united states were the most agricultural,he most conservative, and the most racially troubled. marian was the ambassador. she -- went into almost any situation, people like her. she could calm people's nerves. she could make photographs that did not upset them, that would agency's agenda for documenting the need for change. so, she traveled for most of her the farmrs for security administration, she traveled in the south. she was one of the people who was given the color film. she was one of the first two got the color film. see the bracketing in her work. of made photographs american flags, people celebrating fourth of july, these flag photographs get used heavily. she made photographs of juke joints, which are dance halls. out in the sticks, usually. very simple music, no application, just people playing as they would in their own homes. but dancing went on there. made photographs of a lot of former plantations where there were tenant farmers working for plan

host: you said it is going to affect people who have health spending account, hsa's or fsa's. could there be an issue with people planning for next year, 2016 or 2017, deciding in advance that they do not want to put money in their because that is money that they will get taxed on in 2018? guest: remember, the tax on this is only on the insurer or the employer. it is not going to be directly on you, the worker. that what you might see happening as may be some employers are going to say you know what, our tax plan is really close to this limit, and if people put money in an fsa that could bump is over. employers might ratchet down the amount you are allowed to put in. right now you're allowed to put in up to $2500. that is pre-taxed. then you can use that money for certain medical related expenses. host: does that $2500 include what the company would provide? guest: generally workers just put money into the account. sometimes employers pop in a little bit of money to help them plate -- pay their deductible. what employers may be doing now is looking ahead to 2018 and saying may

but he was still low enough connected that he was able to owi strings to get the fsa, collection to come to the library of congress. intook the president to step to say that they could be kept together, but he did have the connections to get to the president to get this favor. about 1945, 1946, a person was hired to reorganize the collection. initially, it has been divided by state. and apparently it was a cumbersome system to locate photographs and get them back with a came from. for the transition, they hired paul vanderbilt, who was trained as a librarian. he microfilmed to the collection by job. they sorted out the prince by -- prints by photographer and by assignment. microfilmedo them -- them, and then disperse them. 1945, they made that transition. they type to the captions for the photographs that were on those amounts. -- mounts. they had been handwritten. these people used a simplified language so that there was consistency of word use, paste of the captions on, and have been in use since 1946 or so. announcer: this weekend on the c-span networks, politics, books, and american

he came just at the end of the fsa, beginning of the office of war. funding for the agency. he had been trained as a paint er. he was a very good photographer. he was a people person. he could go into almost any situation and people would begin telling him about their most secret thoughts. their deepest desires. and he would photograph them quite comfortably, and they wo uld all go away happier for the occasion. so, he also like stores. saw them as community centers, photographed them in ways that are like works of art. he had an internship in euyr rope, when too many museums, to many art galleries and had a quite well-trained eye and was able to photograph in a style that was extremely polished and yet, because of his proletarian background, he was making pictures of common, ordinary people. his parents were intellectuals in lithuania before they came to america when he was about 12. he didn't remember much about his early childhood, but he, they settled in the philadelphia area. his father had been a professor, but he could not speaking wish. so, he had to work in the furn

they also include the new fsa vendor for our fsa's. we implement the cobras in july. we are doing what they call six meetings as we convert to peoplesoft 9.2. so there've been several of those trying to make sure that transition goes smoothly. i think it significant to say we enrolled 700 new retirees in the last two months. so, that's a huge amount of work for our benefit staff. i'm going to skip through other than to say among you all approved the budget for the enterprise contract management solution, and that was approved yesterday. now all we have to do is select a vendor and start scanning and it's very exciting. i'm waiting for years for that. the web statistics are in your binder. finance wise, we went before the board of supervisors. we responded to the board of supervisors budget analyst two-and were successful in having a majority of our cut being stored and restored and we want for the board of supervisors and i was approved and the funding on electronic contact management system was what was in jeopardy. so it's exciting to actually see that come to fruit

host: you said it is going to affect people who have health spending account, hsa's or fsa's.ld there be an issue with people planning for next year, 2016 or 2017, deciding in advance that they do not want to put money in their because that is money that they will get taxed on in 2018? guest: remember, the tax on this is only on the insurer or the employer. it is not going to be directly on you, the worker. that what you might see happening as may be some employers are going to say you know what, our tax plan is really close to this limit, and if people put money in an fsa that could bump is over. employers might ratchet down the amount you are allowed to put in. right now you're allowed to put in up to $2500. that is pre-taxed. then you can use that money for certain medical related expenses. host: does that $2500 include what the company would provide? guest: generally workers just put money into the account. sometimes employers pop in a little bit of money to help them plate -- pay their deductible. what employers may be doing now is looking ahead to 2018 and saying maybe w