[applause] so, the next question is from bill hirsch. given the cuts in funding for hiv/aids services, do you promise to protect services for san francisco's most vulnerable residence? maybe you can state with the department's plans are and where we are? >> thank you. >> [unintelligible] >> in the chief finance officer for the health department. what i can tell you is we were given a fairly large budget target. be the largest city, the largest amount of discretionary funds. it is understandable we would have the largest general fund reduction target. we've met the majority of the target with the revenues, and we've also identified a number of deficiencies we can still at the end of the day to close the deficit. we have proposed some budget service reductions. we have made no reductions of any kind to aids prevention services at all. we made that decision in recognition of the fact that we may be facing reductions in care funding. that is an issue we view as certainly an important policy issue for the mayor and the board of supervisors, b

here's the states are basically laboratories of democracy this is pretty straightforward stuff adam hirsch at the center for american progress laid this out since the recession twenty four state here's a real clear contrast that we can look at since the recession recession began in two thousand and seven two thousand and twenty four states have cut government spending on average about sudden have percent on the other hand twenty five states have increased government spending an average of around eleven percent so here's the laboratory let's see what the results are of the states that cut spending or that increase spending excuse me we saw unemployment go down two tenths of a percent that's a good thing if you were unemployed people you saw one point four percent increase in private employment this is the think that increased spending employment goes up and he can. growth goes up a half a point but in the states that cuts spending that would be the twenty fourth day that is twenty five that increased twenty four states that cut spending you saw a one percent increase in unemployment others

it was right after work michael hirsch warned had published an article speculating that the new york times could go out of business within months. david was really quite animated an impasse and in his arguments about why that was all. in the context of how technology for that other project had many great benefits, but also cannot really replicate the regional reporting that humans are doing in sidon institution like the times. in singapore for a moment to investigate the resources it takes to do that kind of work. >> so who let you in? >> ultimately it was bill keller who authorized the project. i came into it without a grand sense of what the solution are for traditional media. i came in with a desire just to observe as a documentarian. under the circumstances, bill felt that his journalists would equip themselves in a weight that he would be proud of. he said i am proud of my journalist and i would like the world to see them. >> if a talk-show host asked to get in versus you, a yale law school graduate? >> i am not sure that my education was the deciding factor. i think it was my a